And the method couldn't be simpler, shake your orange juice with the honey until the honey sort of melts with the juice, place it in your favourite glass, add the gin and top with tonic water to taste, making sure to stir it. Add some orange peels for decoration and you're done. I don't use ice on this one because I really don't want to water it down, just make sure your tonic water is really cold and you won't miss any ice. You can obviously use whichever brands you like the most, but if you'd like to try a new one my mum would like to recommend this Portuguese gin, the Sharish Blue Magic with strawberry, raspberry, cinnamon, cardamom, lemon, angelica root, ginger, liquorice, coriander seed and juniper berries. It also has this flower called clitoria ternatea which is what makes the gin blue but, when you add tonic water to it, you get a purple-pink drink, how cool is that?

For my own take on this G&T, and because I just can't get along with gin, I used my favourite drink, limoncello. The one I have is a bit stronger than it normally is so I used just a little bit under a shot, but the recipe is still the same, simply switch the gin for the limoncello and you're ready to go.

Lastly, for a more Christmas-y take on this Cocktail, you will need exactly the same ingredients as in the base cocktail, but this time switch the tonic water for ginger ale, which I think really makes it a step better. The ginger ale along with the honey and orange juice really scream Christmas to me, and if you want to go even further you can also add a few spices like a cinnamon stick and cloves, you do you. Also, if like me you don't like gin and feel as though the limoncello takes away from the ginger ale's subtle taste, maybe use something cleaner, like vodka, which can be a really great substitute for gin in any kind of cocktail.


And there we go, one cocktail three ways, all delicious in their own way. Which one would you try for Christmas? Let me know in the comments below.