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meet unexpectedly

meet unexpectedly by James Lin
  • Bartender: James Lin
  • Bar: blackberry bar, FuZhou, China

Serve in

Wine glass

Garnish:

Rub salt and pepper around the rim of a glass. Use a wine pick to skewer a strawberry and cucumber slice .Finish with a sprinkling of rose petals

How to make:

Get a chilled wine glass, rub the rim with orange, then hang the rim with pepper and salt, and get two fresh strawberries
Peel two cucumbers with a paring knife and set aside. Take out a Boston Shaker pot and add four strawberries and one cucumber and mash with a masher. Add MONIN
Rose flavoured Syrup 10ml, APEROL
10ml, Lemon Juice 18.75ml,
HAYMANS Old Tom Gin 45 ml.
Shake and even. Double strain shaken and finished wine glass with ice. Strain into glass and add Tonic water 60ml. decoration

1 1/2 fl oz Hayman's Old Tom Gin
1/3 fl oz Aperol Aperitivo
1 slice Cucumber (fresh)
1 whole Strawberries (hulled, small & ripe)
5/8 fl oz Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
1/3 fl oz Monin Rose sugar syrup
2 fl oz Tonic water
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