This Festive Cocktail – How to Make It
We present a home-style version of a cocktail featured on a new cocktail list. It's a large-volume premix that is bursting with essence of the holiday season, making it ideal for your celebration. Reserve the remaining citrus syrup to use in breakfast cocktails, desserts, or to make more rounds of this cocktail.
The Bikini Cocktail
Makes enough for 10 servings
To make the Clementine Cordial (makes 750ml)
300ml recently pressed clementine juice
200ml fresh lemon juice
500g fine sugar
For the Cocktail (yields 850ml, to serve 10)
400ml premium vodka
100ml classic gin
150ml peach liqueur
200ml citrus syrup (from the recipe above)
A few cranberries, for garnish
Mandarin essential oil, to finish
Method
To prepare the Citrus Syrup: Combine all the ingredients in a pan, heat until it reaches a gentle boil, mixing until the sugar dissolves. Next, take off the heat and let it to reach room temperature completely. Decant to a sterilised bottle, cap it and store chilled, it will last for around a month.
For the Cocktail Base: Pour all the liquids in a large bottle, allow it to infuse for 60 minutes, then filter it , ideally through a fine cloth, so it's completely strained.
To serve: Measure 85ml of the batch mix into your mixing glass filled with ice, and agitate lightly for one minute until cold. Pour into an frosted cocktail glass or similar, top with the cranberries and finish by giving it a quick spritz of the essential oil over the drink.
