Watch Oz and Tom whip up four alternative summer cocktails using Cotswold-based Reverend Hubert’s spirits and liqueurs in this lively episode of WineAlive’s ‘Summer Sipping Series’.
Reverend Hubert’s Tom Lester is the founder of these spirits and liqueurs which were named after his great grandfather. He had a congregation who didn’t get along so he would choose fruit from the vicarage garden and make various gins for the summer fete to bring everyone together …and of course this was a success.
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Join them as they get slightly overexcited as their palates start to tingle whilst exploring the complexity of flavours in the Reverend’s Summer Cup and Winter Gin Liqueur as they come alive in four alternative summer serving suggestions.
For this Summer Sipping episode Oz and Tom made four cocktails from two gorgeous concoctions in the Reverend Hubert range:
Reverend Hubert Summer Cup
RRP: £29.99
Stockists: Reverend Hubert, Adnams, Daylesford
- Reverend Hubert’s Summer Cup & Mixer
More interesting than a G&T and a wonderful change from Pimms and bursting with real fruit for a perfect summer drink.
Ingredients:
- A generous amount of Reverend Hubert Summer Cup
- Your favourite light tonic or soda mixer (we adore Fever-Tree’s rhubarb light tonic or blood orange soda)
- A stick of rhubarb
- Ice
Pour a generous measure of our delicious Summer Cup into a highball glass, add plenty of ice, top with your favourite mixer and stir with a stick of rhubarb. Relax and enjoy.
- The Reverend’s Cotswold Spritz Cocktail Recipe
The Reverend’s Cotswold spin on a summer spritz
Ingredients:
- 50ml Reverend Hubert Summer Cup
- 100ml Prosecco or English sparkling wine (Tom used The Grange)
- 50ml soda
- Plenty of ice
- An orange slice
Simply add all the ingredients to a glass, stir and garnish with the orange slice.
Reverend Hubert Winter Gin Liqueur
RRP: £39.99
Stockists: Reverend Hubert, Adnams, Masters of Malt
Hubert served this at his congregation’s Christmas party’s ..he loved a party. His great grandson Thomas found his old hipflasks amongst bibles and tunics.
- The Reverend’s Negroni
A fantastic winter version of the Italian classic
Ingredients:
- 30ml Reverend Hubert Winter Gin Liqueur
- 30ml sweet vermouth (Cocchi Vermouth di Torino or Cinzano 1757 Rosso)
- 30ml Campari
- A twist of organge or clementine zest
Pour the Reverend Hubert Winter Gin Liqueur, the vermouth and the Campari into a rocks glass and stir. Add ice and garnish with a slice of orange/clementine zest, twisted to release the oil.
‘A garnish should compliment the aromas of the cocktail – or alternatively it’s just all about peacocking…’ Tom Surgey
- Reverend Hubert’s Special Christmas Champagne Cocktail
A perfect cocktail for a party or get together
Ingredients:
- 40ml of Reverend Hubert Winter Gin Liqueur
- Prosecco or Champagne
- Cube of sugar
- Bitters – ideally orange
- Maraschino cherry
Place the sugar cube in your glass and sprinkle dashes of the bitters onto the sugar – orange bitters are a super wow here if you have them. Next add the Reverend Hubert Winter Gin Liqueur. Top up with Prosecco or Champagne. Finally drop in a maraschino cherry.
Other blogs and videos in the WineAlive Summer Sipping Series with Oz Clarke and Tom Surgey, to be released over the next few weeks include Summer Cocktails and Spirits from Scotland – see them as they are posted here:
Catch the whole Summer Sipping series on YouTube at @wine-alive
