Plum Club Sour

We explore the origins of Australia's signature drinks and learn how to re-create them at home.

- WORDS ALEX MITCHESON

BERRIES AND CITRUS HAVE NEVER BEEN FAR AWAY from gin cocktails. First sipped in Philadelphia's Bellevue-Stratford Hotel in the early 1900s, the Clover Club would become the go-to for sharp-tongued journalists and well-heeled businessmen. Pink, frothy, somewhat sour and disarmingly elegant, it heroed the raspberry and delivered charm in spades, just like the reve