I tried cocktail making with this Valentine's gift box that costs less than £40

Cocktail loving couples can toast their love for one another with an at-home Valentine’s night in kit this February 14.

Dinner and drinks could easily cost you over £50 at a swanky Manchester restaurant, so for those looking to save a little bit of cash and stay in - the Luscombe’s Valentine’s Day Cocktail Edit makes for a fun date experience from your sofa.

Bag yourself one of the supermarket’s Valentine’s meals and you’re set up for a candlelit dinner and delicious drinks without the need to buy a new dress on top.

Created exclusively for Luscombe by master mixologist Louis Xavier Lewis-Smith, the £38 box includes everything you need to recreate two servings of of their signature cocktails ‘Rolling Hills’ and ‘Devon Spritz’.

There are two bottles each of organic Damascene Rose Bubbly and Wild Elderflower Bubbly, one can of The Uncommon’s Bubbly White Wine, two Cove Vodka miniatures, Devon Distillery’s SloeD Gin and Salcombe Distilling Co.’s ‘Start Point’ Gin, as well as lemon, two beautiful Luscombe glasses and recipes.

I had a go at making their Rolling Hills cocktail - and here’s how to make one yourself.

Ingredients

25ml Salcombe Gin ‘Start Point’

25ml Devon Distillery SloeD Gin

25ml Lemon Juice

Top with Luscombe’s Wild Elderflower Bubbly

Lemon slice

Method

Mix both gins in a cocktail shaker full of ice and add freshly squeezed lemon juice. Give this a brief little shake and pour into a highball glass with ice, and top with Luscombe’s Wild Elderflower Bubbly. Add a slice of lemon and serve.

If you don’t have a cocktail shaker to hand you can still build this drink in the glass, just give it a nice stir to mix the lemon.

The cocktail feels really elegant, and though I typically associate sloe gin with Christmas,