Fruity and Floral Gin Cocktails

We love gin any time of the year, but many people still think of it as a summer drink. There’s nothing like a crisp Gin and Tonic on summer day, but the different styles of gin and botanicals typically used in the spirit work well in a number of unique, fresh cocktails. Here are a few that we like.

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Jungle Cat

Ingredients

• 1 ½ oz. Tom Cat gin
• ¾ oz. Campari
• 1 ½ oz. Fresh pineapple juice
• ½ oz. Fresh lime juice
• ½ oz. Dark robust Vermont maple syrup

Instructions

• Combine all ingredients in a cocktail shaker and shake.
• Strain into a rocks glass with pebble ice.
• Garnish with a Campari-soaked dehydrated pineapple.

Notes

Sam Nelis, head bartender/beverage director at Barr Hill Distillery’s main bar in Montpelier, VT, created this recipe.

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Yellow Dreams

Course Drinks

Keyword Bombay Sapphire gin, Chamomile, lemon, St. Germain elderflower liqueur

Ingredients

• 2 oz. Chamomile water
• 1 ½ oz. Bombay Sapphire gin
• ½ oz. St. Germain elderflower liqueur
• ¾ oz. Fresh lemon juice
• ½ oz. Cane sugar syrup

Instructions

• Combine all ingredients and shake hard.
• Strain over fresh ice into a Collins glass and top with Mountaine Honeysuckle sparkling water.
• Garnish with fresh chamomile buds.

Notes

Atlanta-based bartender Keyatta Mincey Parker created this recipe.

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Moon On The Water

Course Drinks

Keyword gin, lime, Roku gin, sake

Ingredients

• 2 oz. Roku gin
• ¾ oz. Rosemary simple syrup*
• ¾ oz. Cold-pressed lime juice
• ¾ oz. Fukucho Junmai Ginjo sake

Instructions

• Combine ingredients and shake.
• Strain into a cocktail glass.
• Garnish with a sprig of rosemary.

Notes

*For Rosemary simple syrup: Combine 1 cup of sugar, 1 cup of water and about ¼ cup of rosemary leaves. In a saucepan, bring to a boil. Simmer while stirring until sugar dissolves. Let cool and strain into a jar.

The mixologists at TAO Asian Bistro & Lounge at the Mohegan casino in Uncasville, CT, created this recipe.

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Straw-Peary Beret

Course Drinks

Keyword Champagne, gin, Hibiscus strawberry syrup, lemon, pear

Ingredients

• 2 oz. Gin
• 3 oz. Pear juice
• 1 oz. Hibiscus strawberry syrup
• ½ oz. Lemon juice
• 3 dashes Hella Co. orange bitters
• Champagne

Instructions

• Combine ingredients, except Champagne, in a cocktail shaker.
• Shake and pour in a wine glass over ice.
• Top with Champagne.

Notes

For the Hibiscus strawberry syrup: Stir 1 oz. of The Perfect Purée Strawberry Puree, thawed, with 4 oz. hibiscus tea.

Mixologist Cody Goldstein, @muddlingmemories, created this recipe.

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Golden Sunset

Course Drinks

Keyword gin, Jaisalmer India Craft Gin, lime, pineapple, tumeric

Ingredients

• ½ oz. Fresh lime juice
• 1 oz. Turmeric and pineapple syrup*
• 1 ½ oz. Jaisalmer India Craft Gin

Instructions

• Combine all ingredients in a shaker tin.
• Add ice and shake hard.
• Double strain into a rocks glass.
• Add ice and garnish with a dried pineapple ring or a pineapple leaf.

Notes

For Turmeric and pineapple syrup:
Combine 8 oz. cold pressed pineapple juice and 1 cup sugar.
Add ½ tsp. Burlap & Barrel New Harvest turmeric.

The mixologists at Jaisalmer created this recipe.

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Strawberry Moon Spritz

Course Drinks

Keyword gin, Hendrick’s Lunar gin, lemon, Maraschino liqueur

Ingredients

• 1 ½ part Hendrick’s Lunar gin
• ½ part Maraschino liqueur
• ½ part Lemon juice
• Top with club soda

Instructions

• Build in a wine glass over ice.
• Lightly churn to mix ingredients.
• Garnish with strawberry slices and cucumber slices.

Notes

The mixologists at Hendrick’s created this recipe.

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Lively White Negroni

Course Drinks

Keyword gin, Suze, vermouth

Ingredients

• 1 oz. Regal Rogue Lively White Australian vermouth
• 1 oz. Gin
• 1 oz. Suze gentian liqueur

Instructions

• Combine all ingredients in a mixing glass
• Add ice and stir for about 30 seconds.
• Serve over ice in a rocks glass.
• Garnish with a lemon twist.

Notes

The mixologists at Regal Rogue created this recipe.