🌿 Gin ClassicNegroni
- 30ml London Dry Gin
- 30ml Campari
- 30ml Sweet vermouth
- Orange peel to garnish
Combine all in a mixing glass with ice. Stir 30 seconds. Strain over a large ice cube. Express orange peel and garnish.
🌿 Gin ClassicClassic Dry Martini
- 75ml London Dry Gin
- 15ml Dry vermouth
- Lemon peel or olive to garnish
Stir gin and vermouth in a mixing glass with ice for 45 seconds. Strain into a frozen martini glass. Express lemon peel over the surface. For a dirty martini, add 15ml olive brine.
🍊 AperitivoAperol Spritz
- 90ml Prosecco (chilled)
- 60ml Aperol
- 30ml Soda water
- Orange slice · Ice cubes
Fill a large wine glass with ice. Pour Prosecco first, then Aperol, then soda. Stir once. Garnish with orange slice. The 3-2-1 ratio is the Venetian standard.
🌿 Gin ProhibitionLast Word
- 22.5ml London Dry Gin
- 22.5ml Green Chartreuse
- 22.5ml Maraschino liqueur
- 22.5ml Fresh lime juice
Shake equal parts of everything with ice. Fine strain into a chilled coupe. No garnish. Forgotten for decades until Murray Stenson resurrected it in Seattle in 2004, igniting the equal-parts cocktail era.
🌿 Gin ProhibitionBee's Knees
- 60ml London Dry Gin
- 22.5ml Fresh lemon juice
- 22.5ml Honey syrup (3:1 honey to water)
- Lemon twist to garnish
Shake all with ice. Fine strain into a chilled coupe. Garnish with a lemon twist. In Prohibition, honey masked bathtub gin. Now it makes excellent gin taste extraordinary.
🌿 Gin ClassicAviation
- 60ml London Dry Gin
- 15ml Maraschino liqueur (Luxardo)
- 7.5ml Crème de Violette
- 30ml Fresh lemon juice · Brandied cherry
Shake all with ice. Fine strain into a chilled coupe. The violet liqueur gives it a pale purple-blue sky hue. Crème de violette was omitted for 80 years — its reintroduction restored the drink to its intended beauty.
🌿 Gin ChampagneFrench 75
- 30ml London Dry Gin · 15ml Fresh lemon juice
- 7.5ml Simple syrup · 75ml Champagne (chilled)
- Lemon twist
Shake gin, lemon, and syrup with ice. Strain into a flute. Top with Champagne. Named for the French 75mm field gun whose kick this cocktail mimics.
🌿 Gin ClassicClover Club
- 60ml London Dry Gin · 15ml Fresh lemon juice
- 15ml Raspberry syrup · 1 Egg white
- 3 fresh raspberries to garnish
Dry shake (no ice) 15 seconds. Add ice, shake 12 seconds. Double strain into a chilled coupe. The egg white foam turns a vivid shade of dusty rose.
🌿 Gin TallTom Collins
- 60ml London Dry Gin · 30ml Fresh lemon juice
- 15ml Simple syrup · Soda water to top
- Orange slice & cherry
Shake gin, lemon, and syrup with ice. Strain into a tall Collins glass over ice. Top with soda, stir gently. Use Old Tom gin instead of London Dry for the softer, sweeter original.
🌿 Gin Hangover CureCorpse Reviver #2
- 22.5ml London Dry Gin · 22.5ml Cointreau
- 22.5ml Lillet Blanc · 22.5ml Fresh lemon juice
- 1 dash Absinthe (rinse or dash)
Rinse a chilled coupe with absinthe, discard. Shake remaining with ice. Strain in. Craddock warns: "Four of these taken in swift succession will unrevive the corpse again."
🌿 Gin ModernThe Bramble
- 50ml London Dry Gin · 25ml Fresh lemon juice
- 12.5ml Simple syrup · 15ml Crème de Mûre (float)
- Fresh blackberries & lemon slice
Shake gin, lemon, and syrup with ice. Strain into a rocks glass mounded with crushed ice. Drizzle crème de mûre over the top — let it bleed down like purple dye. Dick Bradsell remembered picking blackberries as a child on the Isle of Wight. One memory, one perfect drink.