You've Got to Try This Low Syn Gin Cocktail

Have you heard about our Gin of the Month box? Every month we send members a 70cl bottle of gin along with delicious mixers like tonics, soda and cordial. This month’s mixers come direct from The London Essence Company who use traditional distillation techniques to create light and elegant drinks.

In the season of feasting and fun, not every libation has to be calorie-and-sugar-laden. Enter The London Essence Company, whose perfectly calibrated mixers are also the first step to a lighter kind of cocktail.

Andrea Brulatti, master mixologist and former bartender at the prestigious Savoy in London, knows a good cocktail when he tastes one – and he’s not afraid of a challenge, either. So when The London Essence Company asked him to come up with an exclusive low-calorie cocktail for their Grapefruit & Lemon Verbena Soda, which you unwrapped in your November Gin of the Month box, he didn’t hesitate.

“The trend for healthy living has really grown in the last few years,” says Andrea. “People use their phones to keep track of what they’re eating and drinking – it makes us feel more in control. A lowcalorie cocktail is the perfect solution. It allows people to enjoy what they really want – a really well-crafted beverage – without drinking something really calorific.”

The London Essence Company mixers, so low in sugar that they were untouched by the introduction of a sugar tax across the UK, provides the perfect base. “These mixers want to rewrite what we all know about soft drinks. The world has been focusing a lot on spirits, but there’s never been that expertise directed towards mixers, which we use everyday as bartenders. The London Essence Company has a new approach.”

For a low-calorie cocktail worth toasting, try this light libation. At less than 100 calories, it’s a guilt-free way to start a wild night!

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Method

Combine your gin and sherry in a jug filled with ice and stir slowly, until the cocktail is chilled and slightly diluted. Strain into a chilled cocktail coupe and top up with your London Essence Grapefruit & Lemon Verbena Soda. Garnish with an olive and serve.

Ingredients

25ml gin

3 dashes Fino sherry

The London Essence Company Grapefruit & Lemon Verbena Soda, to top up

Olive, to garnish