This new tonic will make your gin happy
Say wine, snacks or haute cuisine and the foodies of online food magazine FavorFlav know where to drink, how to eat and what to cook. This time our chefs serve you: the new flavor of Fever-Tree.
Fever-Tree, you know, the ideal mixer for all your cocktails, has a new flavor. Raspberry & Rhubarb Tonic Water is the name of this cheerful pink drink. The new soft drink is refreshingly sweet and fruity and has a lower dose of quinine.
Quinine is the main ingredient of tonic. It comes from the bark of the Cinchona, the tree also known as Fever-Tree – now you immediately know where the name comes from. Due to the lower dose of quinine, the sweet notes of raspberry and rhubarb are enhanced, and this tonic has a less bitter palette.
From quinine to gin and tonic
Fun fact: the history of tonic starts at the beginning of the nineteenth century with English soldiers in India. To combat malaria, they drink quinine. To make the daily dose of quinine palatable, the soldiers add water, sugar, some local herbs, and lime. This is how they create the very first ‘Indian’ Tonic Water. Not long after, around 1850, gin is added. As the mosquitoes become bloodthirsty at sunset, glasses are raised en masse. And thus, drinking gin and tonic becomes a socially useful and pleasant ritual. Not only in India but also back home.
Only the best ingredients
Real cocktail enthusiasts believe that the tonic you choose is more important than the gin you drink with it. The tonic must be a quality mixer to support the flavors of gin. That’s why the Englishmen Charles Rolls and Tim Warrilow set out in 2003 to find the best ingredients for tonic water. In Congo, they find the best possible quinine, in Tanzania beautiful, bitter orange oil, and closer to home the ultimate English mineral water. Two years later, they launch Fever-Tree Indian Tonic Water.
The soft taste, authentic ingredients, and fine bubbles hit like a bomb. Bartenders worldwide fall head over heels for the Indian Tonic Water, and following this success, Charles and Tim expand their range of premium mixers. All are made from the best and natural ingredients, personally sourced by Tim and Charles worldwide. For example, the raspberries for the Raspberry & Rhubarb Tonic Water are harvested in the Scottish Strathmore valley, and the ‘Timperley Early’ rhubarb is harvested at a family farm in Norfolk.
Which cocktail does Raspberry & Rhubarb pair best with?
The newest addition to the ever-growing Fever-Tree family mixes well with a London Dry Gin (garnish with raspberries!), but is also the ideal match with a (pink) flavored gin, with vodka, or, for all alcohol-free moments, just to drink on its own. You can buy the Raspberry & Rhubarb Tonic at Drankdozijn (for 4 bottles of 20cl you pay €4.95. Later this year you can also buy the mixer at supermarkets and liquor stores.
