Choosing a garnish for your drink is as important as choosing the right tonic, soda, or mixer.

While some garnishes are chosen only for their visual impact, we believe it’s essential to choose a garnish that will enhance the flavour of your cocktail. When deciding on a garnish for your drink of choice, it’s important to understand the flavours in the spirit, as well as, the flavours of any mixes and garnishes you add. You need to choose something that will enhance the taste of your cocktail; not overpower it or take away from it. Most importantly, it must be something you like!

While a garnish of rosemary might go well with a gin that has a prominent savoury or earthy flavour, it won’t necessarily go well with a gin like ours that has a lot of citrus overtones. Hendricks gin, for example, goes well with cucumbers because they use cucumber as one of the 12 botanicals in their gin.

A few of the botanicals we use to flavour our Signature Gin include juniper, orange, Tasmanian pepper berry, and lemon myrtle. Garnishes that enhance the taste of our gin include citrus, berries, and pomegranates.

Why not try adding one or more of the following to your Banks and Solander G&T or cocktail?

a segment, squeeze, or twist of rind from a lemon, orange, blood orange, grapefruit, or kumquat
raspberries, either muddled and strained or whole
blackberries
pomegranate seeds
dehydrated lemon or orange wheel