Gin Cocktail Recipes

The Gimlet is a cocktail that trusts two ingredients to do all the work, and they do. Gin and lime, shaken cold and poured into a coupe, nothing to distract from the sharp, clean hit of citrus agai...

The Aviation is the cocktail equivalent of a well-kept secret. Pale, floral and faintly lavender-tinted, it looks unlike almost anything else behind a bar, and most people who try it for the first ...

The Clover Club is one of the prettiest cocktails you will ever make, and one of the most unfairly overlooked. Soft pink, topped with a silky foam, it looks like something from a much more precious...

The Bramble is a British classic, and a rare modern one that has properly earned its place. Invented in London in the 1980s by the legendary bartender Dick Bradsell, it takes a sharp gin sour and d...

The Tom Collins is one of those drinks that has been quietly getting summers right for over 150 years. Gin, lemon, a little sugar and a long pour of soda, served tall over ice. It is essentially a ...

The Gin Basil Smash is a modern classic, and one of the few cocktails invented this century to earn that title. Created in Hamburg in 2008, it took the simple gin sour template and threw a big hand...

There is nowhere to hide in a Martini. Two ingredients, no fruit juice, no sugar, nothing to paper over a cheap spirit or a lazy pour. That is what makes it the ultimate test of a home bartender, a...

The Dirty Martini divides people, and that is rather the point. Add olive brine to a Martini and you turn something austere and botanical into something savoury, briny and grown-up. Get it right an...

The French 75 is one of the most elegant cocktails ever made, and one of the most dangerous. It looks like a glass of celebration, all bubbles and lemon twist, but underneath the champagne there is...

The Negroni is the drink that separates the casual sipper from the proper cocktail lover, and I mean that fondly. It is bold, it is bittersweet, and it is made from just three ingredients in equal ...

The Elderflower Breeze is my kind of summer drink. It is light, it is floral, and it is the sort of thing you can sip in a garden all afternoon without it knocking you sideways. It is our take on t...