Juliet Gin · Recipe 21
Cherry Blossom Collins
The Collins grows up every spring.
Ingredients
- 50 ml Juliet Gin
- 25 ml fresh lemon juice
- 20 ml cherry blossom syrup
- 80 ml soda water
Method
Shake & build. Serve in a Collins glass / tall glass. Garnish with Maraschino cherry + lemon wheel.
Cherry blossom syrup: steep 1 tbsp dried cherry blossoms in 250ml warm 1:1 syrup, 15 min, strain.
The story
Tom Collins. Invented — or at least first published — around the 1870s, possibly named after a John Collins of Limmer's Hotel in London, possibly from a hoax prank where people were told 'Tom Collins' was talking about them in the next bar. Nobody fully agrees. What everyone agrees on is that it works: gin, lemon, sugar, soda, tall glass. The Cherry Blossom Collins takes the template and gives it a spring makeover: a house-made cherry blossom syrup catches Juliet Gin's cherry notes mid-flight and carries them further. Lemon does its unchanging, necessary work. The Collins is the drink that needs no further justification.
Tasting note
Soft pink, tall, and forgiving. The gin's lemon note fuses with the cherry blossom syrup to create something that tastes both familiar and genuinely seasonal. This is the long drink for spring afternoons.