Flavorful, delicious, healthy and fresh, garden to glass cocktails are rapidly becoming a favorite and relaxing refreshment. Garden to glass cocktails combine luscious fruits, herbs with a bit of spirits, in order to create a unique beverage that is guaranteed to wet your palate and stimulate your senses in a most pleasurable way. For those hearty enthusiasts who choose to grow their own ingredients, they will find that very little space is required for the task. Botanical cocktails, including infusions, will add class and elegance to to dinner parties, as well as simply relaxing after a long day at work.
Key Takeaways:
- “Garden-to-glass” cocktails include herbs, fruits, and vegetables freshly plucked one moment and the next becoming part of a cocktail.
- Many hotels, restaurants, and bars now create their own botanical cocktails and infused spirits, sometimes made with ingredients from the properties’ own cocktail gardens.
- The botanical cocktail movement has sprouted an interest in growing one’s own cocktail ingredients and has spawned a great number of cocktail recipe books.
“Botanical cocktails are great for entertaining, some resembling liquid works of art.”