The Sage

Created for The Botanist Gin with their herby umami flavours from wild foraged ingredients, The Sage is a free and easy interpretation of a gin sour without the egg white. I find the eggy whiff and slight eggy taste in cocktails using pasteurized egg white slightly offputting. But that is my taste.

If you are a fan of savoury or umami gins and like your cocktails on the sour rather than sweet side you will love this cocktail.

The colour is a delicate sophisticated pale green from the syrup and nothing like the vibrant green of a Gin Basil Smash.

Sage is a strong tasting herb so if you find it a little overwhelming dial the syrup right down.

Glass: 

Cocktail or coupe

Ingredients:

• 60ml / 2 oz The Botanist Gin or similar
• 15ml / ½ oz elderflower liqueur
• 5 to 7.5ml / roughly ¼ oz fresh squeezed lemon juice
• 7.5 to 10ml / roughly ¼ oz sage syrup (see recipe)

Method:

1. Put all the ingredients into a shaker with ice.
2. Shake vigorously to chill the cocktail and get some tiny slivers of ice into the drink.
3. Pour through a Hawthorne strainer to keep all those bits of ice into a chilled cocktail or coupe glass.

Garnish:

One sage leaf floating.

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