The Grape Gatsby - Bombay Sapphire Cocktail

now I do like a good pun when it comes to cocktail names so we've created a cocktail called the Great Gatsby yes it does have grapes in it and also it is a great cocktail so hopefully you two are going to love it so we're going to use some frozen red grapes we're going to muddle them in the cocktail shaker to release all their flavor so we'll grab our cocktail shaker and we'll take a few of these grapes out here into the bottom five of them so now that works really really well now you could use if you're at home nice big wooden rolling pin just to squish these down a bit I've got one of these muddlers metal with plastic end and I just squish them in the bottom almost looks a bit like a grape sorbet actually it just breaks it down next up I need the wedge of some lemon and slit it straight through the middle in half again and half again lots of hearts for this we're going to cut it again in half and then squeeze these into the cocktail shaker just so we need a little bit of syrup a little bit of sweetness to balance out the soundness that's in the lemon and I've made a lemon thyme sugar syrup so in here I've got a little handful lemon thyme 250 mils of water 500 grams of sugar in a pan heat it up for about six or seven minutes don't let it boil and then you'll have a really lovely lemon thyme set you can put a little lemon peel twist spritz in there as well just to emphasize that lemon once you're finished you can pop it into the fridge in a sterilized container and that'd be great for six to eight weeks now we need 15 mils of this so just going to pour this into our little measuring jug just as so and in that goes and then finally of course we need the gin gin and lemon thyme just goes exceptionally well together same with the grapes as well getting grapes they're in sparkling wine and champagne things like that working cocktails like red 75 just a match made in heaven now we need the ice in this and give it a good old shake now because I'm going to shake this and actually pour the entire contents into the serving grass I don't want to put too much ice in so actually that one you can go and then we'll grab our tin and give it a good hard shake see stuck see at the lemon still in there smashing up adding its citrusy element you've also got the skins of the grapes in there and they're going to add a lovely texture to the cocktail and then we grab our seven glass nice straight sided wine glass just here swirl this around in the cocktail shaker and pour it all straight in there beautiful and then finish it off with a couple of straws in the side they go and there we have it the Great Gatsby let's have a taste ha it's just so well-balanced you've got the sweetness from that syrup with the lemon thyme complementing the red grapes you got the botanicals in the gin as well the lemon the sourness shaken really nice and cold for the straight into the glass and I think you know it just looks really wonderful pops out the glass Cheers

Channel: Bombay Sapphire Distillery

Views: 35,243

Keywords: Bombay Sapphire, Bombay Sapphire Cocktails, gin cocktails, Grape Gatsby, Laverstoke Mill, frozen grapes, cocktails, The Grape Gatsby

Id: gdI65I8H6rE

Length: 4min 11sec (251 seconds)

Published: Thu Nov 19 2015