This fabulous spring cocktail recipe is taken from Craft Gin Club’s chart-topping book, Gin O’Clock: A Year of Ginspiration - and it’s proven an incredibly popular tipple with our members!

To celebrate the arrival of spring, and to give you a little taste of some of the GORGEOUS cocktail suggestions you will find inside this handsome little coffee-table book (alongside lots of useful articles all about how to look after your gin, ideas for garnishing your G&T, and loaaads more besides), here’s a sneak peek at one of the recipes you can find inside this gorgeous gin-lover’s go-to book.

The cocktail recipe below, the Apricot Blossom, is a light, fragrant and citrussy tipple that combines tart fruity flavours of fresh grapefruit and lemon with sticky-sweet honey, apricot jam, and a lovely base note of smooth, warming gin. Honestly, it’s going to transform your Saturday night (and Sunday, and… well, you get the picture). Chin chin!

Apricot Blossom

50ml gin
1 heaped tsp apricot marmalade
1tsp honey
¼ grapefruit, peeled
1 squeeze lemon juice
Basil, to garnish

Add your gin into a cocktail shaker. One by one, stir in your marmalade and honey until both are dissolved. Squeeze in your grapefruit and drop the flesh into the shaker; add your lemon juice and pack the shaker with ice. Shake and strain into a cocktail coupe. Garnish with basil and a twist of grapefruit.

Our cocktail book is full of beautiful images of our gin cocktail recipes, like this one of our Apricot Blossom!

Like this recipe? Check out our beautiful Craft Gin Club cocktail book: Gin O’Clock: A Year of Ginspiration, which is packed full of gin cocktail, ginny baking recipes, perfect garnish pairings and more. Order one today on our online store! >>
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