When one thinks of Jerry Collins, one’s mind imme­di­ately turns to … eld­er­flowers. That’s because Mat­ter­horn’s “Jerry Collins” cock­tail (a ver­sion of the clas­sic Tom Collins) incor­por­ates such manly ingredi­ents as eld­er­flower cor­di­al and fei­joa vodka. That’s hardly news to Wel­ling­to­ni­ans, but its fame has spread across the Tas­man and got a whole art­icle in the Sydney Morn­ing Her­ald’s “Rugby Heav­en” (hat tip to Duncan in Sydney for the link).

When I asked the bar staff about it this morn­ing, they had­n’t heard of the art­icle, but they were amused to read their boss’s quote that “When the All Blacks or Hur­ricanes play in Wel­ling­ton and feel like going to a bar for a drink they can come to the Mat­ter­horn and nobody will mob them for auto­graphs, or in many cases even know who they are”. They prob­ably get mis­taken for mem­bers of Fat Freddy’s Drop.

Appar­ently the name is iron­ic. Really? I thought it was because eld­er­flowers are a diur­et­ic.