Is ‘blouge’ really the drink of the summer?

A tomato martini. A negroni spagliato. A grapefruit gin. Two spritzes, both Hugo and Aperol. A bottle of orange wine. Buzzballs in four individual flavours. Yes, this is a perfectly acceptable order at any well-respected watering hole, no matter what your mother/therapist/parole officer might tell you. But it is also a list of tipples christened, at various points, as the ‘drink of the summer’.

It’s a…