Mocktail or cocktail

Lavender Tonic

The zero-proof gin and tonic. Tonic water, lavender syrup and lime, blooming pink. All the ritual, none of the alcohol.

Ingredients

Makes 1 drink

  • 1 oz Bench & Bloom lavender syrup
  • 0.5 oz fresh lime juice
  • Tonic water, to top
  • Ice and a lime wheel

Method

  1. Fill a glass with ice. Add the lavender syrup and the lime. It blooms pink.
  2. Top with tonic water and stir gently.
  3. Garnish with a lime wheel.

Tonic’s quinine bitterness gives lavender a grown-up edge, so this drinks like a gin and tonic with the gin left out. The lime turns it a soft pink and keeps it bright. For an even cleaner version, use soda water instead of tonic.

Start from a bottle of Bench & Bloom or a batch of lavender simple syrup.

Skip the steeping. Ours is already dialled in.

Summer harvest, available mid-July