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All things romance, friendship and love, Valentine’s Day is a sweet celebration that involves planning something special for that most important person. Whether it is a romantic date night or a Galentine’s sleepover that is an ode to lasting friendships, the blushing hue of pink gin builds a distinct charm into your Valentine’s Day cocktail game.
With delicate flavours and gentle berry notes, pink gin is actually light and versatile and quite tailor-made to romantic or intimate celebrations. Craft elegant and charming looking pink gin cocktails this Valentine’s Day, whether you are planning a cosy at-home dinner, a picnic spread out on the terrace or a hangout session with your cherished friends.
Pink Gin And Rose Spritz
Pink gin is essentially regular gin blended with citrus bitters and berries that end up imbuing a soft pink hue into the spirit. Make a floral, fizzy and aromatic cocktail using this spirit that can accompany elegant small bites at your Valentine’s Day date night.
Blend pink gin with just a little bit of rose syrup and lime juice. Assemble this mix in a champagne flute and top it off with soda water right before serving. A dried rose petal garnish can bring more aesthetic into the simple botanical and floral spritz, lending it a graceful nuance befitting the occasion.
Berry Blush Martini
Think muddled strawberries, raspberries and cranberries coming together in a cocktail glass to produce a vibrant, dark-hued drink laced with the lightly savoury, acidic touches of pink gin. The berry blush martini can be made by muddling these assorted fruits in a cocktail shaker and topping them off with some cranberry juice, ice and pink gin.
Shake the drink well and strain into an elegant martini glass. Fruity, bright and lightly sweet, the berry blush martini is a good alternative to prepare at a Galentine’s slumber party.
Grapefruit And Pink Gin Fizz
If there was one brightly coloured, fruity and lightly floral combination that spelled intense passion and romance, it would be fresh grapefruit juice and pink gin coming together in cocktail form. Make this drink the showstopper of your Valentine’s Day date night by serving it in a chic, aesthetic cocktail glass. Add a fizzy touch to the cocktail by topping it off with some tonic water.
What will introduce an artsy flourish into the drink is a rosemary garnish. The cocktail will look like a sheer spring garden in a glass, as you serve it with assorted cheeses and chocolates in a picnic-style spread on the rooftop or your small backyard garden.
Raspberry Pink Gin Smash
Sweet and acidic muddled raspberries and sharp, zingy mint leaves will come together in this pink gin cocktail flavoured with fruity and herbal notes. The gin smash becomes fresh, sweet and herbaceous when finished off with the addition of simple syrup and soda. Serve the drink in a tall cocktail glass with bright raspberries as the garnish.
The dark hue of the cocktail coupled with the equally prominent berry garnish will lend the drink a very romantic and charming quality, perfect for an intimate, sundowner date.
Orange Chocolate And Pink Gin Mix
Two ingredients which are simply meant for the Valentine’s vibe – chocolate and pink gin – come together in this complexly flavoured drink. While orange zest and chocolate syrup is a match made in heaven, stir these into pink gin and ice and what emerges is a densely flavoured, dessert-style cocktail perfect for a romantic night spent at home.
Deep colours, rich flavours and a subtly aesthetic orange wedge garnish will characterise this rather interesting ingredient combination that promises to bring a colourful, layered twist into your romantic celebrations.
