Although overlooked in recent times in favour of flashier ‘retro’ cocktails, the humble gin & tonic remains perennially popular. Look beyond the basic ‘ice & slice’ combo and experiment with fruit flavour and mixers. Here, the immensely talented Jimmy Barrat shows us how to integrate pink grapefruit into a G&T, highlighting the wonderful base notes of Tanqueray 10…

Hand Crafted


Ingredients:

  1. 50ml Tanqueray 10
  2. 2 dashes grapefruit bitters
  3. 1 squeezed grapefruit wedge
  4. 1 grapefruit peel
  5. Fever tree tonic water
 Method:

  1. Pour the gin into a snifter over a large chunk of ice.
  2. Add the bitters and the squeezed grapefruit wedge
  3. Stir five times and add the tonic water
  4. Finally, flavour the glass with the grapefruit peel

 

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