Name: Wild Blossom
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Gin; 15 ml Elderflower liqueur; 15 ml Pink grapefruit juice; 22.5 ml Cranberry juice; 3 drop Saline solution 4:1

Wild Blossom
Jump to

Photographed in a Retro Coupe

Ingredients:
1 ¹⁄₂ oz	Hayman's London Dry Gin
¹⁄₂ oz	Elderflower liqueur
¹⁄₂ oz	Pink grapefruit juice (freshly squeezed)
³⁄₄ oz	Cranberry juice (sweetened)
3 drop	Saline solution 4:1 (20g sea salt to 80g water)

Read about cocktail measures and measuring

How to make:

Select and pre-chill a Coupe glass.
Prepare garnish of grapefruit zest twist.
SHAKE all ingredients with ice.
FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.
EXPRESS grapefruit zest twist over cocktail and use as garnish.

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

More cocktails with similar strength and taste profile

Review:

Aptly named - it is indeed blossom-like with subtle floral elderflower, yet also balanced with assertive gin notes.

View readers' comments

History:

Adapted from a drink created in 2007 by James Scarito at BLT Market in New York City, USA.

Nutrition:

One serving of Wild Blossom contains 154 calories

Alcohol content:

1.1 standard drinks
16.23% alc./vol. (16.23° proof)
15.8 grams of pure alcohol

More Anytime cocktails
More Aperitivo/aperitif cocktails
More Floral (e.g. Elderflower spritz) cocktails
More Sours (citrus) cocktails
More Spring cocktails

Difford’s Guide remains free-to-use thanks to the support of the brands in green above. Values stated for alcohol and calorie content, and number of drinks an ingredient makes should be considered approximate.

Join the discussion

Showing 9 comments for Wild Blossom.
See discussion in the Forum

Please log in to make a comment

Tuber Magnatum

25th October 2024 at 22:46

Really enjoyed this. Agree it makes a wonderful apéritif. I also agree a touch sweet which as has been suggested may relate in part to the sweetness of ones grapefruit. Will try next time as suggested with 2 parts gin. This also might be a great cocktail to carbonate!

Florian Ruf

21st July 2024 at 13:18

I would rethink the grapefruit zest as decoration. The twist is ok, but the grapefruit zest at the edge is overpowering the elderflower.

John CARR

31st May 2024 at 13:39

Indeed aptly named, delicately floral, with a hint of fire from the gin. Delicious.

Herbert Brant

22nd December 2023 at 22:29

Made with Kendrick's Flora Adora Gin, this cocktail is heavenly. If you enjoy the occasional floral drink, this one should appeal beautifully as an apéritif. Highly recommended.

Annette Kinnunen

1st May 2024 at 20:14

And I used Hendricks Grand Cabaret Gin. Lovely.

Chris Brislawn

11th September 2023 at 23:43

The interplay of the elderflower liqueur with the bitter cranberry and grapefruit juices was a pleasant surprise. Agree with J. Hinojos that it's a bit sweet as written so upped the gin to 2 oz and added a good dash of grapefruit bitters as in Difford's Grapefruit-Gin Cocktail.

Sally Morgan

19th April 2024 at 19:09

Darn! Wish I’d read this before I’d made the first one - the bitters are a perfect addition. We just need Mr Difford to pop up now and agree and edit it, so I don’t have to remember tobread the comments next time.

1 reply

Susannah Albright

28th March 2023 at 21:59

Very good!

Sally Morgan

2nd October 2022 at 18:30

Other half tried to guess what was in this and came up with ‘watermelon. You can see what they mean. Well balanced - recommended

John Hinojos

3rd February 2022 at 02:53

This was very nice. We found it a bit sweet, but that may be due to the grapefruits in San Diego are tree ripened and much sweeter than those in most shops. I do feel it is a great aperitif with the sweet, bitter, and herbal flavours.

Anonymous

2nd January 2021 at 03:11

It's interesting how the same idea often floats in the air. James Scarito's Wild Blossom resembles Julie Reiner's Juniper Breeze (https://archive.is/duU40#selection-751.0-1021.117), which she was serving at the Flatiron in 2003, even before St-Germain launched in '07.