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A totally nonalcoholic drink to tantalise your tastebuds.
Mocktails are having a revolution. After years and years of your best nonalcoholic option being a lime and soda, suddenly brands have stopped and taken notice. No matter your tipple of choice, you can now be pretty confident that there will be a good alcohol free version out there.
This drink features some of the nonalcoholic brands I love, and builds around an acidic shrub to create a drink that is complex and far from saccharine. Have you ever tried a shrub before? It mixes fruit with vinegar and sugar to make a sweet/sour combination which has been popular for centuries and is often used as a stand-in for alcohol. As an additional bonus, they can be thrown together with left over fruit, like these grapes and cranberries I'd had in my freezer.
Ingredients
50 ml sea buckthorn nonalcoholic spirit (https://www.baxbotanics.com/)
25 ml grape and cranberry shrub
20 ml lemon juice
1 full dropper New Orleans bitters (https://allthebitter.com/)
White peach and jasmine tonic (https://www.londonessenceco.com/en/)
Blueberries
Grape and cranberry shrub:
Put 50 g purple grapes and 50 g cranberries into a bowl with 30 g white sugar, muddle them to combine. Leave to macerate for a day. Strain the mixture and combine with 30 g red wine vinegar - add slowly to taste. Shake the mixture well to insure all sugar has dissolved and then enjoy!
Method
Add the first four ingredients to a shaker with ice and shake well.
Fine strain into a wine glass.
Top with the tonic.
Garnish with blueberries.
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