It’s the month of love and Valentine’s Day is fast approaching. Here is a carefully curated collection of delicious cocktails – with a pink theme of course – for a month of date nights.
Rose Gimlet
Coupette
50ml One Gin Crisp Apple
25ml Rosé Vermouth
12.5ml Bottlegreen Raspberry Cordial
3 x dried rose buds
Chill your coupette or martini glass in the freezer. Combine all the ingredients, apart from one rose bud, into a cold mixing glass, fill with ice and stir for twenty seconds. Using a strainer (or dessert spoon) to hold back the ice, pour the cocktail into your chilled glass and garnish with the remaining rosebud
Floradora
GLASS
Highball
INGREDIENTS
50ml One Gin Classic
Gin 25ml lime juice
1 tsp raspberry jam
100ml ginger ale
METHOD
Shake the gin, lime and raspberry jam with ice, strain into a highball and top with dry ginger ale. Fill with ice and garnish with a lime wheel.
One Cosmo
GLASS
Martini
INGREDIENTS
30ml One Vodka
30ml Cointreau
50ml Cranberry Juice
15ml Lime Juice
METHOD
Add all your ingredients to a shaker filled with ice and shake well. Strain into a chilled martini glass and garnish with a lime twist.
Winter Rose
GLASS
Cocktail Glass
INGREDIENTS
20ml One Port Barrel Rested Gin
20ml Pommeau
20ml Cocci Rosa Vermouth
METHOD
Chill your ingredients, glass and tools. Stir all ingredients well in a mixing glass with lots of fresh ice. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass and finish with a spritz of lemon oils.
Rooibos Royale
GLASS
Champagne flute
Ingredients
20ml One Gin Classic
20ml rooibos, guava and yellow hibiscus tea cordial (can be obtained on Amazon)
80ml sparkling wine (dry)
1 edible flower
Method
Add the gin and cordial into a mixing glass with cubed ice and stir until very cold. Strain into a flute, top up with sparkling wine and garnish with an edible flower.
