Cocktail: Lemon Verbena Gimlet

Lemon Verbena Gimlet

One of the leading botanicals in January's Sabatini Gin, lemon verbena adds delicious flavours to the classic gin Gimlet. Mix up this gimlet recipe with a twist and see!

Ingredients:

60ml water
15g sugar
15g lemon verbena leaves, torn
50ml Sabatini Gin
50ml soda water
Juice of half a lime
Lemon verbena leaves and lemon slices, to garnish

Method:

1. Begin by making a lemon verbena simple syrup.
2. Combine sugar, water and lemon verbena leaves into a saucepan and heat gently until combined in a syrup.
3. Pluck out the lemon verbena leaves and set aside to cool.
4. When cool, combine all of your ingredients in a glass and stir with ice, then garnish with sprigs of lemon verbena and lemon.