5 Gin Cocktails to Make With Love This Valentine’s Day

Celebrate Valentine’s Day by whipping up some creative gin cocktails — made with extra love! Whether you’re saying cheers to friendship, relaxing with a favorite show or clinking glasses with your cutie, let these drinks add a little extra spice to your evening.

Let’s get mixing!

Rosa’s Ruin

(Photo: Silent Pool)

Whale You Be Mine

(Photo: Gray Whale Gin)

• 2 oz Gray Whale Gin
• 5 oz Blood orange juice
• Soda water (to top the cocktail with)
• Garnish: Blood orange wheel

Shake your ingredients in a cocktail shaker full of ice. Strain the cocktail into a glass with ice and top it with soda water. Garnish with a blood orange wheel and enjoy!

This cocktail recipe comes from Gray Whale Gin and takes advantage of the slightly saline, minty and herbal notes of its flagship spirit. Gray Whale donates 1% of every sale to environmental causes that support ocean conservation. If you don’t have Gray Whale Gin on hand, use your favorite savory or citrus-forward gin.

Chamomile Collins

(Photo: Silent Pool)

• 50 ml Silent Pool Gin
• 25 ml Chamomile Syrup
• 25 ml Lemon Juice
• Splash of soda water

Build your ingredients over ice in a Collins glass and stir. Garnish your cocktail with a sprig of lavender.

This recipe comes from Silent Pool Distillers and plays on the classic Tom Collins gin cocktail. Elevate the tart, lemony drink with a splash of sweet chamomile syrup, which also compliments Silent Pool Gin’s delicate chamomile notes.

Two Dirty Birds

(Photo: Himbrimi)

• 2 oz Himbrimi Winterbird London Dry Gin
• 0.5 oz Himbrimi Old Tom Gin
• 3 dashes of bitters
• 3 drops of olive oil
• Garnish: 3 Taggiasche olives

Stir together your ingredients in a glass filled with ice. Strain the cocktail into a chilled martini or Coupe glass and garnish with an olive skewer.

This cocktail recipe comes from Himbrimi and utilizes both its classic dry and Old Tom gins. Thanks to Himbrimi Old Tom’s whiskey-like, sweet honey tasting notes, this drink packs quite a complex sip. If you don’t have Himbrimi spirits at the ready, try using a favorite dry and Old Tom gin.

St. Clements ’75

(Photo: Silent Pool)

• 25 ml Silent Pool Gin
• 12.5 ml Lemon and Orange Juice
• 5 ml Sugar Syrup
• Splash of Champagne
• Garnish: Lemon or orange twist

Combine your ingredients in a cocktail shaker full of ice. Shake until chilled and strain into a Coupe glass. Top with Champagne and garnish your drink with either a twist of orange or lemon.

This cocktail recipe comes from Silent Pool Distillers and is a riff on a French 75, a classic gin cocktail made with Champagne, lemon juice and sugar. This cocktail adds a little bonus citrus fun with the addition of orange juice and an optional orange twist.

Cheers!

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