When the temperature is high, my go-to wine is a Rosé every time. I popped into Dan Murphy’s at Galleria Morley to pursue their extensive selection of globally sourced rosé and came away with a gorgeous bottle from Hawkes Bay. Not only is it a lovely dry wine, but the bottle has the most gorgeous label with a very appropriate Tiger gracing it. Perfect in our Chinese year of the tiger. In keeping with current drink trends, I have taken the alcohol down a notch in this refreshing cocktail by adding lychee syrup and soda, so you can safely sip away while still being mindful of your intake. This cocktail is pretty as a picture with the addition of a lychee, fresh raspberries frozen into your ice blocks and pops of green from cucumber and mint.

INGREDIENTS

• 1 x 4 tinned lychees, drained and syrup reserved - Coles
• 200ml reserved lychee syrup - Coles
• 200ml soda water - Coles
• 8 fresh raspberries - Morley Fresh
• 400ml Rosé (I used Round Theory 2020 Rosé / Hawkes Bay) - Dan Murphy’s
• Mint and cucumber to garnish - Morley Fresh

METHOD

• Place two raspberries into four large ice block tray sections, fill with water and freeze - NOTE: I used a Kmart Giant Square ice tray
• Skewer a cucumber round and a lychee onto four bamboo skewers and set aside.
• Set out four cocktail glasses
• Place an ice block in each glass
• Top with 50ml lychee juice each
• Top with 100ml rosé each
• Top with 50 ml soda each
• Finish the glass with your lychee skewer and fresh mint

STYLING

I dived head first into feminine for this cocktail styling. Pink all round, with gorgeously fine glassware, a long glamorous cocktail stirrer to make sure your drink is evenly mixed and paper straws for those who want to keep their lippy intact.

• Rosé Made Me Do It - Pink Cocktail Book - Myer
• Cocktail mixing spoon - Myer
• Luigi Bormioli Bach Retro Fizz Set - Myer
• Gold spotted paper straws - Woolworths
• Cut glass look tumbler - Kmart

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