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Cape Spice Soga Grapefruit & Rasberry Fiz

Cape Spice Soga Grapefruit & Rasberry Fiz

Sweet, sour, spicy and fizzy – and a gorgeous coral colour - try this delicious cocktail by renowned mixologist and cocktail specialist, Owen OReilly
Course Aperitif, Cocktails

Ingredients
  

  • 50 ml Abstinence Cape Spice 
  • 100 ml Soga organic frozen ruby grapefruit juice 
  • 15 ml raspberry syrup 
  • Splash of soda water
  • Go Fruit grapefruit banana blast garnish pack 
  • Ice, for shaking 
  • Long cocktail ice, for serving 

Instructions
 

  • Add Cape Spice, Blood Orange Aperitif, Soga Grapefruit Juice & Raspberry syrup into a cocktail shaker filled with ice. 
  • Shake well and strain into a highball glass filled with the long cocktail ice. 
  • Topped with soda and garnish with Go Slo garnish pack. 
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