Marie Rose
Recipe:
- 60ml London Dry Gin
- 22,5ml elderflower liqueur
- 7,5ml fresh lime juice
- 8 fresh green grapes
- 1/2 rosemary sprig
Strip half a rosemary sprig of the leaves, muddle gently in the base of your shaker together with the grapes. Add the other ingredients. Shake with ice until sufficiently chilled. Fine strain into a prechilled coupe. Garnish with another sprig of rosemary.
Ah, these typical sour recipes (sour + matching liqueur or sour + matching herbs/spices or here both in combination), which are subtle and immediately very logical, always take me back to the beginnings. Not mine, but how bars used to be in Germany 10-12 years ago and thus the highest art of mixing back then. It's still good in any case and this one is indeed one of my favorite "easy" sour twists, I could also imagine it with a split-base grappa & gin for the final Mediterranean touch.
I don't need to explain much about the flavors, do I? Fresh juniper, citrus notes, rosemary and nice, subtle grapes with elderberry, great mix for all seasons.
Source: Renan Lejeune, Zeta Bar, London, UK, 2007
