Mare is a Mediterranean gin flavoured with four botanicals: basil, thyme, rosemary and Arbequina olive. Together with juniper, cardamom and citrus, these botanicals make a very diffeent kind of gin

Red Pickle Tickle

50ml Gin Mare (use the 50ml cap as a handy measure)

15ml fresh lemon juice

15ml fresh orange juice

1 teaspoon of red cabbage pickle juice

1 teaspoon of clear honey

Place all ingredients in a cocktail tin and shake hard. Strain into a martini coupe. Garnish with fresh rosemary.

Pickled Quail’s Egg Martini

50ml Gin Mare (use the 50ml cap as a handy measure)

10ml dry vermouth (Martini or Cinzano)

1 pickled quail’s egg

Stir the gin and vermouth over ice and strain into a martini glass. Garnish with a pickled quail’s egg on a cocktail stick.

Festive Snapper

50ml Gin Mare (use the 50ml cap as a handy measure)

10ml port

10ml fresh lemon juice

5 dashes Worcestershire sauce

3 dashes Tabasco

Salt and pepper

Stir all ingredients over ice and strain into an ice filled highball glass. Garnish with a cocktail stick of a Spanish hot pepper, an anchovy, a gherkin, an onion, and an olive.