Darjeeling Cobbler

Darjeeling Cobbler

Darjeeling black tea, Champagne, jaggery, blackberries

On a sourcing visit to In Pursuit of Tea, I became really inspired to use them in cocktails at Acre. The Darjeeling Cobbler is one such dram. Because our license only allowed for beer & wine, I thought that pairing champagne with their Darjeeling black tea would bring out the pretty and steady grape notes of the champagne. A cobbler is a cocktail family that uses little to no citrus, which is what brought it to mind, the tea and champagne with some fruit, sweetener and spice should do the trick, I thought.

Recipe

handful of blackberries

1/2 oz jaggery syrup

3 oz strong cold brewed Darjeeling black tea

Champagne

whole nutmeg

mint

Instructions:

In a shaker muddle 4- 5 berries, add jaggery syrup, tea and ice, shake, strain over crushed ice and top with champagne. Garnish with remaining berries, mint bundle and liberally microplane nutmeg over the top.

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