It is bartender Farouk Toutounji turn to tell us how this cocktail reminds him of his true love story! Read his story here.
We asked bartenders all over the world to share a cocktail that relates to their first love story. Discover what Farouk Toutounji’s cocktail is. Farouk is a bartender in Lebanon at the Timmy’s Bar and was also a participant and winner of the Spirits Hunters CONFINEMENT BARTENDER CONTEST.
“If my first love were a cocktail, it would be a Babiana”
It all started on a busy Saturday night. A charming lady in a purple flower dress approached me at the bar. I knew I was captivated the moment her lavender perfume mixed so passionately with the gentle summer breeze and the bar lights reflected her supple glowing skin. “Is she more of a wine, a whiskey, or a beer lady?”i asked myself.
“What can i offer you my lady” she smiled and said, “surprise me”. “Ah! Adventurous and confident! My kind of women!”, I said to myself. I was intrigued, I had to prepare something special on the spot. I had to captivate her the way she captivated me.
And this is how Babiana came to light. And how our story began.
A drink, that is more than just alcohol in a glass. It embodies the spirit of the Babiana, a purple flower that grows so confidently in the garden just as in the wild. A drink that reminds me of the charming, confident and adventurous lady in that purple flower dress that swept me off my feet the moment I saw her. A drink that depicts the beginning of forever… The beginning of a love story between me and that Babiana lady who became my lover, then my partner, then my wife, then the mother of my son.
Cocktail Babiana
Ingredients:
30 ml London dry gin
20 ml parfait amour liqueur
20 ml lavender syrup
20 ml lemon juice
10 ml Egg white
Garnish: Babiana flower or lemon round.
Preparation Dry shake, shake with ice and strain into chilled coupe glass.
Cheers 🥂
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