Botanist T
Recipe by Timo Wessels | Updated on 3. February 2023
The Botanist T Cocktail is a well-balanced drink with flavourful Roiboos-Vanilla Tea. Paired with Lemon, Gin, and some Orange Zest, it's a refreshing and crisp summer and autumn cocktail.

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Ingredients
- 30ml The Botanist Islay Dry Gin (gin)
- 30ml Cointreau Blood Orange (blood orange liqueur)
- 20ml Simple Syrup (sugar syrup)
- 20ml Lemon Juice Fresh (citrus juice)
- 100ml Samova Orange Safari Roiboos Vanilla Tea (rooibos tea)
1x blood orange zest
Mixing Instructions
- Brew the tea and let it cool down.
- Remove the tea herbs from the water. And keep the strong brew refrigerated.
- Pour all ingredients into the shaker.
- Shake until chilled and strain into a serving glass filled with ice.
- Add your garnish.
Detailed Recipe Instructions
- Brew the tea.
- Let the tea sit for a while until it is cooled down to room temperature.
- Remove the tea herbs from the water. And keep the strong brew refrigerated.
- Prepare your Mise en Place.
- Prepare your bottle setup.
- Prepare your garnish.
- Pour all ingredients into the shaker.
- Add ice cubes into the shaker
- Shake for about 10 seconds.
- Add ice cubes to the white wine glass.
- Strain into the serving glass.
- Add your garnish.
- Clean up your working station.
how to garnish
- 1x blood orange zest, squeeze and drop into the glass.
Mixing Tips
General
- It might be helpful to add in the beginning lesser syrup. You can constantly adjust the sweetness after shaking the cocktail.
Mise En Place
- Keep all equipment and ingredients within range. It will be easier and faster to mix the drink.
Non Alcoholic Ingredients
- Try to make a strong brew if you use tea as an ingredient.
- For better results, chill your strong brew tea before mixing it.
Garnish
- Be careful and confident if you want to zest a citrus fruit with a zest peeler!
ice cubes for the serving glass
Jigger
Zester Grater
Cocktail Shaker
Water Kettle
Editor Recipe Notes
Once in a while, you focus on certain ingredients. And somehow, Rooibos-Vanilla Tea is like the Elderflower for Cocktails =).
What I like about tea is that it contains no sugar, has a lot of flavors that you can control, and is very versatile to use.
Instead of always mixing a Drink with Juice, you should try some strongly brewed tea. That’s what we did with the Botanist T cocktail. You can play around with some different styles of Gin and the amount of tea. You could even make a twist and serve it in a coupette glassware. The world is open to you =)
Flavour and Texture
orange, rooibos, vanilla
lemon, rooibos, vanilla
light bodied, smooth, zippy