Here is the new proposal for the summer of Bombay Sapphire and a recipe to savor it at its best in a colorful cocktail
Around the mid-1980s, the explosive London bartender Dick Bradsell he thought of combining gin, lemon juice, sugar syrup and a special blackberry liqueur to create a new drink with intriguing fruity notes. Thus was born the Bramble, a cocktail that over time would later become part of the great classics of international mixology. And so in this strange summer 2020 Bombay Sapphire has decided to pay homage to that lucky experiment of more than three decades ago, launching on the market in these weeks a new and colorful proposal: Bombay Bramble, or a special gin characterized by the infusion of blackberries and raspberries.
A gin with berries
Yeah, but what is this Bombay Bramble like? The color is an intense burgundy, tending to purple, and is obtained – as the company strongly emphasizes – exclusively fromfruit infusion, without the addition of artificial colors. On the nose, the scent of wild berries is particularly intense, and yes, it could slightly annoy the most rigorous connoisseurs of gin, accustomed to breathing in the scents of juniper berries and all the others botanical present in the distillate. But we are still faced with a deliberately alternative product, sought after in its playful and casual nature. This can be clearly felt when tasting pure, where in the first instance all the distinctive notes of the more classic Bombay emerge, followed only later by those – however very evident – of the red fruits.
The new version of the Bramble
In short, the latest Bombay Sapphire proposal is presented in all respects as a cheerful summer variant of its gin, designed to be enjoyed on a sunny terrace inside a good cocktail, with a side dish of a fine tonic and plenty of ice. We can, for example, think of using it to give a bitter-sweet boost to the more classic Gin Tonic. Or, alternatively, propose it in a 2020 version of that Bramble that gave it its name, following the recipe below. The suggested retail price for the new Bombay Bramble is € 16.90.
Bramble 2020
Ingredients:
5 cl of Bombay Bramble
2.25 ml of fresh lemon juice
3.20 ml of sugar syrup (2: 1 ratio)
seal:
1 slice of lemon
2 blackberries
1 raspberry
Method:
Pour all the ingredients into a glass.
Mix everything with a bar spoon.
Break the ice and then pour it into the glass
Garnish with lemon, blackberries and raspberries and serve.
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