Drinks

Rosé All Day, Slushy Style

This easy-sipping “frosé” cocktail is your new go-to summer drink

May 2, 2018

Photo: Lizzie Munro

Just in time for pool season, a new book, Session Cocktails: Low Alcohol Drinks for Any Occasion by Drew Lazor, shares dozens of light drinks, including this recipe for a refreshing frozen rosé cocktail (called a frosé) blended with grapefruit liqueur and crowned with Campari, the Italian aperitif.

The blender-and-ice treatment will work on any bottle of rosé wine—we love this one from Early Mountain in Virginia (although it’s also a perfect sipper all on its own).

Ingredients

- 4 oz. dry rosé wine
- 1 oz. Giffard Pamplemousse
- ¾ oz. fresh lemon juice
- 1 cup crushed ice
- ½ oz. Campari

Preparation

Put wine, Giffard Pamplemousse, lemon juice, and ice in a blender and process until smooth. Pour into a rocks glass and float the Campari on top. Garnish with lemon wheel.

Excerpted with permission from Session Cocktails: Low Alcohol Drinks for Any Occasion by Drew Lazor and the Editors of Punch

CJ Lotz Diego is Garden & Gun’s senior editor. A staffer since 2013, she wrote G&G’s bestselling Bless Your Heart trivia game, edits the Due South travel section, and covers gardens, books, and art. Originally from Eureka, Missouri, she graduated from Indiana University and now lives in Charleston, South Carolina, where she tends a downtown pocket garden with her florist husband, Max.