Red Door Splendid Summer Sour

Discover our Splendid Summer Sour

A truly timeless classic from one of the oldest cocktail families, our Red Door Splendid Summer Sour combines citrus lemon with an Earl Grey syrup sweetener to bring out the aromatic bergamot and rose petals in our summer botanicals, perfect for those warm summer evenings

Ingredients

60ml Red Door Highland Gin with Summer Botanicals
50ml Homemade Earl Grey Tea Syrup
25ml fresh lemon juice
½ an egg white
3 dashes of orange bitters
2 drops of rose water
1 barspoon of sugar syrup

Method

Add all ingredients to a cocktail shaker with ice. Shake hard for 25 seconds and fine strain into a chilled Nick and Nora glass. Garnish with a twist of lemon.

* Recipe courtesy of Luke Todd-Wood, Regional Sales Manager, Gordon and MacPhail

** For the Earl Grey syrup, add 100g sugar, 200ml boiling water and an Earl Grey teabag to a pyrex jug. Stir until all the sugar has dissolved. Discard the teabag and leave to cool. Store in the fridge for up to 6 weeks.