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Since our grapefruit are tree ripened, they tend to be a little sweeter. Reduced the Elderflower by 1/4. The resulting cocktail was outstanding. Definitely going on our cocktail rotation.

This can be improved by using Sir Robin of Locksley gin (which has elderflower in its botanicals and goes very well with a pink grapefruit garnish in a G&T).

Brings all the flavours together in a slightly smoother manner.

We call this “The Sir Robin of Beverly Hills”.

Elderfower dominates too much in my opinion, and taste is really basic. Grapefuit juice and elderflower should marry well, but I would choose another recipe.

Super! Used blood-graprfruit which turned out very well. Will be one of our ”house cocktails”. Proportions seem ok to us.

Great bright holiday cocktail. Looks like it might trace its distant origins to the "Flower power," a "bucolic English nickname for a mixed drink from elderflower cordial and gin or vodka." (Ned Halley, The Wordsworth Dictionary of Drink: An A-Z of Alcoholic Beverages, 2005, p. 230). Adding grapefruit juice is genius. For variations check out Wild Blossom, Old Friend and Old Mexican Friend.

Gin and elderflower, what's not to like. Had to buy grapefruits for our GnT garnish during Covid lockdown, due to lack of lemons and limes, so we tried a few grapefruit based cocktails.