Botanical Gardens
The Botanical Gardens is a drink made with THE DUKE Munich Dry Gin, homemade Mandarin Cordial and lime, served in a coupe. This is the more demanding kind: one ingredient has to be made first, so allow eight minutes or more.
- Preparation time
- 8 minutes
- Servings
- 1 drink
- Difficulty
- advanced
- Glass
- Coupe
Ingredients
- 5cl THE DUKE Munich Dry Gin
- 4 cl homemade Mandarin Cordial*
- 1 cl lime
- 4 Dash Kaffir Lime Essence***
Preparation
Shake all ingredients cold in a shaker over ice and strain into a cocktail glass. Briefly flame a kaffir lime leaf and attach it to the edge of the glass using a clip.
Grate the kaffir lime peel with a microplane, cut the kaffir lime into slices and mix everything with the gin, macerate for 48 hours at room temperature in a vacuum or, depending on your equipment, in a preserving jar. Strain and pour into a clean dash bottle.
* Preparation of Mandarin Cordial or Sherbet:
250 ml mandarin juice (freshly juiced, solids strained out)
125 g Oleo Saccharum from mandarin peel**
5g citric acid
Bring all ingredients to the boil until the oleo and citric acid are completely dissolved, allow to cool and pour into a clean bottle.
** Preparation Oleo Saccharum from tangerine peels:
Mix 6-7 tangerine peels with 125 g sugar in a sealable container and mash with a muddler so that the oils come out of the peels. Leave to steep for 24 hours. Remove the peel and add the sugar with the fresh mandarin juice.
*** Preparation of kaffir lime essence:
10 cl THE DUKE Munich Dry Gin
5-6 kaffir lime leaves
Zest of a kaffir lime
1 kaffir lime
Variations
- Apple Munich Mule: With apple juice.
- Basil Gin Sour: With lemon juice.
- Bavarian Mule: With table horseradish.
- Bavarian Negroni: With Mondino.