Token Tipple

Looking for a unique cocktail to serve at your wedding? Try this rosy sparkler, dreamed up by master mixologist Jason Kilgore of Catalyst restaurant in Cambridge.

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Photograph by Dave Bradley

Your Last Night Alone
4 slices cucumber
1 1/2 oz. Hendrick’s gin
1 oz. St. Germain elderflower liqueur
1/2 oz. lemon juice
1/4 oz. simple syrup
1/8 tsp. rose syrup
1 splash rosé champagne

Using a spoon or muddler, mash the cucumber slices in the bottom of a cocktail shaker. Add ice and all other ingredients (except the champagne), cover, and shake vigorously for 15 seconds. Double strain or fine strain into a flute and top with champagne. Serves one.