Recipe

• 3 parts Opihr (weird gin with a ton of cardamom in it)

• 1 part lemon juice

• 1 part waldmeister syrup

Shake well with ice and strain into a cocktail glass.  Add a cherry.

This is a good example of the dangers of unusual gin.  I think Opihr would've been great in a martini or something – after all, the flavours are really interesting and worth savouring – but in an aviation it was all wrong.  The interesting thing here was supposed to be replacing the cherry liqueur with waldmeister (or woodruff) syrup, a charismatic German flavour that I love but isn't easy to find in the UK.  But in this case it just tasted of curry.

The experiment was a failure.