Tom Surgey mixes the best Spring cocktails for Oz Clarke in the folly of The Pig in Combe for the third episode in WineAlive’s Spring Sipping series.
‘This is a fantastic time for cocktails – mixologists are bravely mixing herbs, spices, vinegars and sweet flavours ‘ – Oz Clarke
Tom is using star studded ingredients: a gin jointly founded by actor Emma Watson and her brother Alex, Matthew McConaughey and his wife Camila’s 100% blue weber agave Pantalones tequila, and a non-alcoholic spirit developed by neuroscientist Professor David Nutt to enhance the brain’s naturally occurring GABA. Watch as Oz finds out more about GABA and discusses trousers and a religious calling as he tastes cocktails expertly mixed by Tom using: Renais Small Batch Gin Pantalones Tequila Blanco (Organic) Sentia GABA Red. Sounds intriguing? Watch to find out more.
To create the best Spring cocktails Tom used:
Renais Small Batch Gin
RRP: £45.00
Stockists: Renais, Waitrose, Master of Malt, Selfridges
Pantalones Tequila Blanco (Organic)
RRP: £36.50 – £43.00
Stockists: Waitrose, Master of Malt
Sentia Gaba Red
RRP: £32.00
Stockists: Sentia Spirits, Selfridges
Cocktail recipes
Renais Golden Hour Spritz
Ingredients
50ml Renais Small Batch Gin
25ml Elderflower Cordial
Squeeze of lemon
Top with Soda.
Method
Fill a Copa glass half way with ice. Pour in the Renais Gin, Elderflower Cordial and a squeeze of lemon and stir with a long spoon. Top with chilled soda water and garnish with a slice of lemon
Tommy’s Margarita
Ingredients
50ml Pantalones Organic Tequila (Blanco or Reposado)
30ml Organic Lime juice
15ml Organic Agave Nectar
Method
Add the Pantalones Organic Tequila, organic lime juice and organic agave nectar to a shaker with ice. Shake until well chilled and strain over fresh ice. Traditionally there’s no salt in a Tommy’s but if you prefer salt then rub the edge of a rocks glass with a lime wedge, then dip the rim in salt.
Tom’s Non-alcoholic Cherry Sour with Sentia
Ingredients
50ml Sentia Gaba Red creatug draft
25ml Lemon & Lime Juice – 50/50
12.5ml Cherry Syrup
15ml Egg White
Method
Combine all ingredients in a cocktail shaker. Dry shake (without ice). Add fresh ice to shaker and shake again to chill. Strain into a chilled rocks glass, with fresh ice.
Garnish with a cherry.
Other blogs and videos in the WineAlive Spring Sipping Series with Oz Clarke and Tom Surgey , to be released over the next few months, include the Valdobbiadene Prosecco and Sauvignon Blanc for Springtime, released just in time for International Sauvignon Blanc Day on May 1st 2026. See them all here:
Catch WineAlive’s full Spring Sipping series on YouTube at @wine-alive
