Gin Cocktails for Spring

As Winter turns to Spring we're whetting your taste buds with our top five gin infused Spring cocktail recipes to recreate at home, enjoy!

1.  Caorunn Apple Three Way Recipe

What you need:

• 50ml Caorunn Gin
• 10ml bitter cider reduction (Reduce 500ml cider with 5ml Angostura and 10ml Peychaud on a medium hob for mins, take off heat, add skin of 3 Pink Lady®apples, cool and strain.)

How to make it:

Stir over ice and garnish with Pink Lady® apple peel.

2.  Caorunn Apple G&T Recipe

What you need:

• 40ml Caorunn Gin
• 3 Basil leaves
• 3ml Madagascar vanilla extract
• 20ml Red Apple Juice
• 80ml Fever-Tree Slimline Tonic

How to make it:

Stir, strain and top up with tonic.  Garnish with red apple slices (fanned) and a basil leaf on a skewer.

3.  Caorunn Gin Negroni Recipe

What you need:

• 25ml Caorunn Gin
• 25ml Vermouth
• 25ml Campari

How to make it:

Pour the ingredients into rocks glass with ice cubes and garnish with an orange twist.

4.  Don't Thistle My Pink Cocktail Recipe

What you need:

• 50ml Caorunn Gin
• 20ml Old Pulteney 12YO whisky
• 20ml Raspberry gomme
• 1 Rosemary sprig

How to make it:

Stir all liquid ingredients in a boston and strain into a chilled martini glass, rim the glass with the rosemary sprig and discard.  Garnish with a thistle.

5.  Lainie Cocktail Recipe

What you need:

• 30ml Caorunn Gin
• 30ml White Grapefruit Juice
• 10 Fresh Mint Leaves
• 100ml Sparkling Cider

How to make it:

To serve, fill a highball with cubed ice and the mint leaves (give these a quick smack before you add them to release the fragrant oils), then add the remaining ingredients, pouring the cider slowly so as not to release too many bubbles. Stir gently and garnish with an apple wheel and mint sprig.