Here’s a cocktail named for one of the world’s most luxurious fabrics.
“Silk is a sophisticated liquid interpretation of one of the most expensive and luxurious textiles,” says the drink’s creator, Ali Toghani.
“The cocktail mimics the silky and smooth textures of the material with notes of lychee, raspberry, rhubarb, coconut cream and juniper which is then carbonated and topped with sparkling wine for bright effervescent mouthfeel which plays with the smooth and slight bittersweet notes of the cocktail.”
Silk
Ingredients:
- 60ml carbonated Silk batch
- 40ml Idee Fixee sparkling wine
For the Silk batch (per serve):
- 30g Bombay London Dry Gin
- 7.5g Rhubarb Mistelle
- 2.5g Campari
- 25g rectified lychee juice
- 17.5g raspberry syrup
- 52g coconut cream
- 6.1µl sandalwood tincture
- 3.1µl rose geranium tincture
- 8.2µl lavender tincture
- 650µl saline solution
- 20µl strawberry colouring
For the rectified lychee juice:
- 25g lychee juice
- 1.5g citric acid
Method:
- For the rectified lychee juice, stir the citric acid into the lychee juice until dissolved.
- For the batch, combine all ingredients except the coconut cream, then add the coconut cream and leave to wash for 30 minutes.
- Filter until clear, pouring the first drippings back over the filter.
- Weigh the filtered batch, then add the tinctures, saline and colouring.
- Carbonate the batch.
- Pour 60ml of the carbonated batch over a carved ice ball in a coupette and top with 40ml sparkling wine.
- Garnish with a rose petal.
Recipe by Ali Toghani with Benji Kinoial at Tailor Room, Sydney.
