Bramble
A gin sour with blackberry bleeding down through the crushed ice: sharp lemon first, then dark sweet fruit at the bottom of the glass. The liqueur is heavy and sweet, so the gin has to push back — juniper and bite carry through where a softer floral bottle just gets buried.
- 50 ml
- gin
- 25 ml
- lemon
- 12.5 ml
- sugar
- 15 ml
- creme de mure
- blackberries
Shaken sour over crushed ice, blackberry liqueur drizzled through.
From the collection — 3 bottles
Berkshire Botanical
Rhubarb & Raspberry
The raspberry already in the gin meets the crème de mûre halfway, so the drink tastes of fruit rather than syrup.
Brockmans
Premium Gin
Brockmans already tastes of blackberry, so it meets the crème de mûre halfway instead of fighting it, and 40% keeps the drink from thinning out over crushed ice.
Salcombe Gin
Rosé Sainte Marie
Rosé Sainte Marie already carries red berry fruit, so the crème de mûre extends the gin instead of masking it, and 41.4% is enough spine to keep the lemon tart.