
Jean-François Desaulniers presents us with this festive cocktail that is fresh, bright and alive. Sommelier Jean-François worked behind the tea bar in our Latin Quarter teahouse and specializes in a style of cocktails with less sweetness and more complexity. He won the Canadian Tea Master’s Cup in Mixology in 2019.
Ingredients
- 2 oz of wintergreen chilled (we recommend an 8hr cold infusion of 2.5g per 250ml water. If you don’t have time a hot infusion cooled on ice works).
- 1 oz Thuya Gin (or another ‘foresty’ gin )
- ½ oz lime juice.
- Tonic Water
Preparation
Mix all the ingredients except the tonic water. Serve on ice in an ‘Old-Fashioned’ glass 10oz ‘Highball’ glass. Add a little tonic water and stir gently. Garnish with zest of lime or lemon.
*for an alcohol-free version simply leave out the gin or, even better, replace it with an alcohol-free gin like Norois Esprit-de-London.