As Guernsey’s Gin Hotel and the home of Wheadon’s Gin, the team behind the bar here at the Bella are experts when it comes to gins and gin-based cocktails.  Our own Wheadon’s Gins have been designed to be served as gin and tonics, however if you are after something a little different then there are some great classic cocktails that suit their flavour profiles.

If you’ve got a bottle of Wheadon’s rock samphire and pink grapefruit gin at home and are looking for a summer sip to remind you of your time at the Bella Luce but that isn’t a Wheadon’s and tonic, then look no further than The Greyhound.

Here at the Bella, our mixologist George makes a great variation on a classic Greyhound:

Ingredients:

• 50 ml Wheadon’s Rock Samphire & Pink Grapefruit Gin
• 25 ml of homemade Sweet & Sour*
• 3 drops of aromatic cocktail Bitters
• 100 ml of fresh pink grapefruit juice
• Garnished with a pink grapefruit half wheel or peel

Method:

• Fill a Collins or highball glass with ice cubes. 
• Add gin, sweet & sour mix and bitters, stir.
• Top with fresh pink grapefruit juice
• Garnish with a half wheel of pink grapefruit, or a twist of peel.

*Sweet & Sour mix is a simple syrup and citrus juice mix, made by heating equal volumes water and sugar to make a syrup (one cup of each), then adding the same equal volumes of lemon juice and lime juice (one cup of each).