The London Violet

I was inspired to make this cocktail because I was finally able to buy some blood oranges at our local grocery store. Although there are many different blood orange liquors on the market I just don’t feel like they taste enough like the true citrus blood orange flavor that I needed for this drink. Since I paired this with our local blackberry liquor I needed the acid and distinct blood orange flavor from the fruit itself to balance and still highlight the blackberry. Sometimes I struggle to come up with a creative name and decided to use the deep purple color of the drink as my inspiration. Color charts call this purple English Violet. Since I used London Dry Gin in the recipe I swapped London for the English part of the name.

Ingredients:

2 oz Bombay Sapphire Gin

1 1/2 oz Morécello Blackberry Liquor

1 oz fresh squeezed blood orange juice

1/2 oz fresh lime juice

1/2 blood orange wheel for garnish

Add all of the ingredients to a shaker and shake well until cold. Strain into a rocks glass with a large cube or a martini glass and garnish with the blood orange wheel.