Bittersweet Symphony – The Aperol Gin and Tonic

People of the world, meet my new favourite drink! Forget the Aperol Spritz,  the Aperol Gin and Tonic is a great drink for summer drinking, or really for any time of the year.

I love G&T’s and Negroni’s and the Aperol Gin and Tonic is kind of a cross between them.  Or, as I like to call it, win-win.

The Aperol Gin and Tonic is slightly sweet, slightly bitter, has great citrus flavour and a lovely complexity from the botanicals in the gin. All of which is a fancy way of saying “It’s delicious…drink up!”

It’s also a very pretty drink!

Even though this is called the Aperol Gin and Tonic, there is a surprise ingredient in here which I think rounds out the flavours, ramps up the orange and adds the sweetness….

Yep! Cointreau. Which I am also partial too!  If you wanted to take the Negroni-ness of this up to 11, you could, of course, sub out the Cointreau for some vermouth!

I found the recipe for the Aperol Gin and Tonic in a Waitrose magazine when I was in England earlier this year.  Made it and then promptly lost the recipe.  Luckily it was not hard to remember!

Aperol Gin and Tonic

Print Recipe

A delicious take on a G&T

• Author: Taryn Fryer

Ingredients

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• 15ml Gin
• 15ml Aperol
• 15 ml Cointreau
• Tonic Water
• Ice Cubes

To Garnish

• Rosemary Sprigs
• Orange Slices

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Instructions

1. Add ice to a cocktail shaker.
2. Add the gin, Aperol and Cointreau
3. Shake, baby, shake.
4. Add fresh ice cubes and orange slices to a long glass
5. Add the gin mixture.
6. Top with tonic water.
7. Garnish with a rosemary sprig

So good!   The only downside is that it’s going to be very hard to stop myself from making them waaaaaay too often for both my liver and my waistline!

Have a great week!