Drink Your Garden with Portobello Road Gin Cocktails!

With gardening enjoying a huge renaissance, these awesome Portobello Road Gin cocktails will help make far better use of your vegetables than just ingredients to cook with!

Green fingered gardeners can treat their vegetable patch like a cocktail cabinet this summer as the Portobello Road Gin gurus have created a series of cocktails made from juices designed to tap into Brits' obsession with the hobby. 

The Vegetable Patch Copa

50ml Portobello Road Gin

200ml Tonic water

25ml Carrot juice made from around 8 baby carrots

Basil sprig

Juniper berries for garnishing

Method

Place the ice into a large red wine glass.

Take the baby carrots and extract the juice using a juicer.

Pour the juice over the ice then slowly add the gin and the tonic, give it a gentle stir and garnish with a basil sprig and a sprinkle of juniper berries.

The English Garden Copa

Summery, savoury and elegant – everything an English inspired Copa should be.

50ml Portobello Road Gin

200ml Tonic water

25ml Radish and red chicory juice made from around 10 radishes and 4 leaves of red chicory

1 radish cut into thin slices

Rosemary sprig

Lavender sprig

Method

Place the ice into a large red wine glass.

Take the radishes and red chicory and extract the juice using a juicer.

Pour the juice over the ice then slowly add the gin and the tonic, give it a gentle stir and garnish with sliced radishes, a rosemary sprig, lavender and a sprinkle of juniper berries.

The Good Life Copa

Made with dextrose – the easiest sugar for the body to metabolise, grape seed extract – which is a great source of anti-oxidants, and superfoods gooseberry and pomegranate.

50mls Portobello Road Gin

200mls High mineral content sparkling water

Pinch grape seed extract

Teaspoon of powdered dextrose  

A couple of frozen gooseberries

Pomegranate pieces

A large twist of your choice of citrus

Rose petals

Method

Place the ice into a large red wine glass. 

Stir the dextrose, the grapes extract and the gin to create a smooth paste.

Add the ice, pomegranate and the frozen gooseberries and top with sparkling mineral water then finally drop in a few rose petals.

Portobello Road Gin is available in store and online from Waitrose, Selfridges, Tesco and Harvey Nichols. RRP £25.