How to Make a Gin-Lime-Cucumber Cocktail

The Gordon’s Cup is the nested Russian dolls of sour-style drinks. It’s like if you put a Gimlet through the movie Inception. It takes the primary tension of its family of cocktails, and cubes it. Layered. Deeper. More. 

To explain: Sours, as a cocktail family, are all about the push-and-pull. You need resistance. This is why your early fumblings in the mixological realm were likely terrible, because you combined, probably, cranberry juice (sweet) with orange juice (sweet),…