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

Ingredients

1 ¹⁄₂ fl oz

Hayman's London Dry Gin

¹⁄₂ fl oz

Elderflower liqueur

¹⁄₂ fl oz

Pink grapefruit juice (freshly squeezed)

³⁄₄ fl oz

Cranberry juice (sweetened)

3 drop

Saline solution (20g sea salt to 80g water) or merest pinch of s

How to make

Glass

Photographed in a Retro Coupe

Prepare

Select and pre-chill a COUPE GLASS.

Prepare garnish of grapefruit zest twist.

Method

SHAKE all ingredients with ice.

FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.

Garnish

EXPRESS grapefruit zest twist over cocktail and use as garnish.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Wild Blossom contains 154 calories

Alcohol content:

1.2 standard drinks
16.23% alc./vol. (32.46° proof)
17 grams of pure alcohol

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Comments & Discussion

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Michelle McMillan Premium Member 22w

Too sweet for my tastes. On the second try, I increased the gin to 2 oz and added 1/2 oz of Aperol to give the bitterness from the grapefruit more backbone and I liked it better. Maybe I just had really sweet grapefruit. I used Empress Rose and Elderflower gin.

Annabelle Egginton 34w

Very pleasant, the pink grapefruit and elderflower give a lychee flavour. Great pre dinner drink anytime of the year!

Emma Bellerby 35w

Made with Roku Sakura Bloom and loved it!

Tuber Magnatum Premium Member 1y

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 Premium Member 2y

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 Premium Member 2y

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

Herbert Brant 2y

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 2y

And I used Hendricks Grand Cabaret Gin. Lovely.

Chris Brislawn 3y

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 Premium Member 2y

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.