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Preparation: Smoke rosemary sprigs, then muddle along with mint. Add rest of the ingredients apart from tonic in a shaker. Shake it well and strain it over a highball glass filled with ice and then top it up with tonic. Garnish with a dehydrated orange wheel and fresh mint sprigs. 7. Jamun Sour - Vikrant Nagaokar, Bar supervisor, Intercontinental Another epic retake on the popular whisky sour cocktail, Jamun Sour is created by Vikrant Nagaonkar of Intercontinental Hotel. The cocktail is among the restaurant’s popular savoury gin curations. It uses India’s own Hapusa Himalayan dry gin, blending it with a homemade pink Himalayan salt saline solution. Top this with a mix of egg whites, lemon juice and lemon zest, which 9. Voila - Sameer Uttamsingh, Brand Consultant & Creative head behind Balsa’s Cocktails & Founder of Acme Hospitality Have you ever tried a Thai-inspired cocktail with Thai cuisine? Well, now you can. Combining popular Thai flavours like lemongrass and galangal, Voila is quite a refreshing sip, prepared with muddled lemongrass and galangal, blue pea flower infused gin and topped with tonic! Ingredients: 60ml blue pea infused Pumori gin 1/4th stalk lemongrass 5gms galangal 5ml lime juice 30ml tonic water Garnish with edible flowers Preparation: Muddle lemongrass and galangal in a cocktail shaker. Add the blue pea infused vodka & top with ice. Shake well until chilled. Strain this into a chilled martini glass. Garnish with edible flowers. 10. White Sand - Kalayarasan Baskar, Bartender, Conrad Bengaluru The White Sand cocktail prepared by Conrad Bengaluru’s beloved bartender Kalayarasan Baskar has been interestingly created with two main ingredients that come specifically from two different geographical locations. These include the finest brew of Japanese Jasmine tea and hand plucked Italian Rosemary. Traditional yet simple, the cocktail seeks to unite different cultures and traditions, into one glass! Ingredients: 60ml gin 45ml jasmine tea 20ml peach syrup 15ml lime juice 10ml simple syrup 1 sprig of rosemary Preparation: Mix Jasmine Tea with one smoked rosemary spring along with Peach syrup, Lime juice and simple syrup. Shake the ingredients together. Pour it in a burgundy glass filled with ice. Lastly, garnish the drink with smoked rosemary. 11. Wood & Smoke — Puspendu Sain, Restaurant Manager, Six Senses Fort Barwara One of the oldest and most popular cocktails in the world, a classic Old Fashioned is every whisky aficionado’s favourite pick! Its smoky bitter aromas are what give it its unique favour palate. For non-whisky drinkers and gin lovers, here’s a recreation of the popular tipple. Pushpendu Sain of Six Senses Fort Barwara created a deconstructed old fashioned using gin instead of whisky, infusing it with roasted pineapple and a flavourful Indian spice smoke trapped gin. Ingredients: 60ml gin 6 slices of roasted pineapple 10ml sweet vermouth 2 cardamom cloves 1 bay leaf Preparation: Take a wooden block. Keep the whole spices on top of it. Take the pineapple infused gin in a shaker, add vermouth, give it a little stir. Pour it in a whiskey snifter. Keep a ball ice on top of the snifter. Light the whole spices and turn over the whiskey glass to trap the smoke inside. While serving, bring back the glass upside down. Meanwhile, the glass has been smoked well. Put the ice ball first on to the serving glass and then pour the cocktail. Garnish with orange peel. give the cocktail a rather sweet and sour aroma. Ingredients: 60ml Hapusa gin 4 fresh jamun 4 drops Himalayan pink salt saline solution 20ml lemon juice 20ml egg white Lemon zest Preparation: Add jamun and lemon juice, muddle it to release flavour of jamun then add rest of ingredients, including egg whites. Dry shake it to aerate the drink, then again shake it with ice to chill it nicely. Double strain in glass and spray lemon zest to release aroma on top. 8. Mind Your Berry - Darshan Parmar, Operations Head, Out of The Blue Just because summer is over, it does not mean you can’t relish a sweet summery drink! Mind Your Berry is fruity, sweet and refreshing, and bursting with antioxidants, making it a healthier option as well. It is prepared with a blend of berries in Out Of The Blue’s magical tea, cranberry tea and gin. The drink is inspired by summertime, but can be enjoyed all year round. Ingredients: 60ml gin 60ml Out Of The Blue magical tea 60ml cranberry tea 10ml grenadine syrup 20ml simple syrup 15ml lime juice Edible flowers Preparation: Take a Boston, pour all the ingredients in and shake it well. Pour it in a red wine glass. Garnish with edible flower. Mind Your Berry Voila White Sand Wood & Smoke 46| L U X E B O O K | J U N E 2 0 2 2 J U N E 2 0 2 2 | L U X E B O O K |47