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Tropical cocktails are wonderful – but Danish nature has its own magic. The Gin Rose cocktail was developed by Njord as an organic alternative, proving that the invasive rosehips can be just as enchanting in flavor as exotic fruits like mango and passion fruit.

We join the Danish Nature Agency's campaign against rosehips by letting the cocktail's delightful taste convince people to drink these delicious fruits! The tasty yet unwanted rosehips are found in our Distilled Mild Wildness gin, which combines the fruit's natural sweetness with gentle floral, herbal, and slightly spicy notes. The marmalade specially developed for the cocktail, rich in rosehip, rounds off the flavor, while the sparkling elderflower rosehip soda adds a light freshness and subtle bitterness. Finally, the cocktail is garnished with dried rosehip peels.

The result is a well-balanced and sophisticated cocktail, where fruity and floral notes dance lightly on the tongue. A cocktail that shows you don’t need to go to the tropics to enjoy fruity freshness and elegant sweetness.

Behold, ladies and gentlemen! This is to some considered the zenith of mixology. The Martinez, and the Martini are siblings, and some consider the Martinez to be the granddad of gin cocktails. As it is often the case with cocktail history, the origin of the Martinez is obscure, but it is said to be rooted in California invented by famous bon-vivant Jerry Thomas. This is a beautiful cocktail with a burnt oaky honey colour and a refined taste. The Martinez is the perfect after-dinner companion and one of the few cocktails that deserve its status as a classic to an almost ineffable level. With Mother Nature this cocktail is a good way to showcase the use of gin in cocktails, since it stands out among the other ingredients and really helps make it all come together. 

Bluebarb is, as the name suggests, a cocktail filled with blueberries and rhubarb. It’s a flavor journey through both forest and garden, where ingredients and memories from Danish nature are woven together in an organic, fresh, and sweet serving.

The journey begins in the depths of the forest. Here we find the gin Distilled Cone and Core—an explosion of that fresh, green scent that greets you when stepping between fir and juniper. The cool needles blend with sun-ripened apples, creating a soft and fruity gin base. The gin was born out of a vision of sustainability, where discarded organic Christmas trees along with apple pulp and cores from juice production are given new life and meaning through distillation.

From the forest floor, the path leads on to the berry thickets and the darker sweetness of nature. Here the cocktail finds its depth in a cocktail marmalade of blueberries and gin with lemon balm, developed especially for Bluebarb. It brings a rich, berry-filled and citrus-fresh sweetness, evoking memories of sun-warmed hands and purple stains on your fingers after an afternoon at the forest’s edge.

The cocktail is lifted and lightened when fresh rhubarb from the kitchen garden joins the journey. Rhubarb soda adds sparkling freshness and a gentle tartness that balances the darker sweetness, while a touch of vanilla lays yet another layer of complexity to the experience.

Finally, the finishing touch — pink peppercorns resting on top of the chilled cocktail. It delivers an unexpected but welcome spicy warmth, completing the cocktail experience.