The Ultimate Autumn Cocktails
Cotswolds Apple and Blackberry crumble
45ml Cotswolds Dry Gin
8 Blackberries
15ml Cinnamon Liqueur
12.5ml Lime Juice
50ml Apple Juice
8ml Orgeat (Almond Syrup)
Rim the martini glass with oat crumble. Muddle 8 blackberries in the Boston tin, fill with ice and add all the other ingredients. Shake and strain into a martini glass and serve. Garnish with an apple and a blackberry.
Costswolds Bramble
50ml Cotswolds Dry Gin
25ml Lime Juice
12.5ml Sugar Syrup
12.5ml Crème de Mûre
Place gin, lime & sugar into an ice filled shaker, shake and strain into an Old Fashioned glass filled with crushed ice. Drizzle Crème de Mûre through the ice. Garnish with fresh blackberries and a wedge of lime.
Cotswolds Honeyed Flip
60ml Cotswolds Single Malt Whisky
15ml Cotswolds Amaro
15ml Honey Syrup (2 honey: 1 water)
1 Whole Egg
Place all ingredients into a shaker, dry shake (without ice), add ice, shake & strain into a coupe glass. Garnish with grated nutmeg.
Let Nothing Perish
45ml Cotswolds Dry Gin
15ml Cotswolds Amaro
7.5ml Maraschino Cherry Liqueur
45ml Pink Grapefruit
Place all ingredients into an ice filled cocktail shaker, shake and strain into a chilled Martini glass. Garnish with dehydrated pink grapefruit.
What we used in these autumn cocktails:
Cotswolds Dry Gin is distilled with a blend of nine carefully-considered botanicals. The Head Distiller uses over ten times the average amount of botanicals used by most premium gins and, because the gin is non-chill filtered, the oils are retained in the gin which causes a pearlescent cloud to appear when ice or tonic is added, creating the unique ‘Cloudy G&T’.
RRP: £34.95 for 70cl. ABV: 46%. Available from: cotswoldsdistillery.com, Waitrose, Majestic, Oddbins, Laithwaites, Harvey Nichols, Selfridges and Fortnum and Mason
Inspired by Amaro, the Italian herbal liqueur which is typically enjoyed as an after-dinner ‘digestif’, Cotswolds Distillery has created a collection of whisky liqueurs which recreate this drinking moment, The Cotswolds Amaro Whisky Liqueurs.
Cotswolds Amaro No 1, has the flagship Cotswolds Single Malt as the base to which a blend of select botanicals including vanilla, citrus and spice have been added. The resulting liqueur is lighter with pronounced herbal and floral notes. RRP: £34.95 for 50cl. ABV: 40%. Available from: www.cotswoldsdistillery.com
