Annual Food & Drink Issue

Gimme the Blues Cocktail Recipe

Serving Up Sparkles

Every cocktail connoisseur has that one recipe in their arsenal that offers up opulence and has the power to make anyone who tries it feel like they are sipping something special. Here, area establishments share their favorite carbonated cocktail recipes so that you too can be serving up sparkles in style.

Photos by Rich Smith

Gimme the Blues

By Valerie Welch at Gate 11

Ingredients

1 oz. Gate 11 Infame Blanche Absinthe
1/2 oz. lemon juice
1/2 oz. house-made lavender syrup
1 oz. house-made blueberry syrup
Mineral water

Directions

Add absinthe, lemon juice, and syrups to a cocktail shaker with ice and shake to combine. Pour into a wine glass and top with mineral water. Garnish with skewered blueberries and a basil leaf.