World Gin Day: Bar Mood’s Nick Wu to take over Seven Lobby Bar at The RuMa Hotel and Residences

The cocktail bar has since garnered international acclaim for its inventive concoctions that blend classic components with local Taiwanese ingredients and flavours—one of the first in Asia to do so.

From 8 to 10 pm on Friday, June 7, Wu will take over Seven Lobby Bar at The RuMa Hotel and Residences with two signature drinks from Bar Mood. The first, called Presents of God, stands as part of Wu’s Tea series. The creation is Bar Mood’s version of a classic iced lemon tea, uplifted and lent sophistication with gin, plum liqueur, Earl Grey cardamom extract, passionfruit, and dry orange.

The second drink of the night is from Wu’s Flora series, a collection of drinks that celebrate the natural world. The Season of Flower showcases the crisp sweetness of elderflowers, combining the blossom’s accords with jasmine tea syrup, gin, muscat grape liqueur, and brightening the tipple with fresh lemon juice. Both cocktails are distillations of Bar Mood’s concept, spotlighting the uniqueness of Taiwan’s cuisine through the inclusion of local flowers, botanicals, and spices.

There is no place better to celebrate World Gin Day than Seven Lobby Bar, equipped with an impressive portfolio of 77 unique gins that includes Four Pillars Bloody Shiraz gin, the spice-forward Twisted Nose gin, and a classic London dry gin, Tanqueray No 10.

Designed for gin connoisseurs, the bar offers guests customisable cocktail experiences, allowing guests to build their own gin and tonics with its array of gins and seven different tonics, from Fever Tree Elderflower Tonic to East Imperial Yuzu Tonic. Glasses can then be fortified with Sarawak highland pepper, lemongrass, juniper berries, and more from the bar’s selection of spices, herbs, and fruit. 

As a pioneer of localised mixology in Asia, Wu remains committed to spotlighting the versatility of local produce, regardless of his current location. During the takeover, a cocktail exclusive to The RuMa Hotel and Residences that highlights a key ingredient of Malaysian cuisine will be unveiled and will then be available to guests from June 7 to July 6. 

For reservations at Seven Lobby Bar, WhatsApp +603 2778 0751

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