From Bandra’s bustling lanes and into your home bars – Perry Road Peru, India’s first distilled cocktail, created by the custodians of cocktail culture in India, Stranger & Sons, received a resounding encore. For a fleeting season it’s back to deliver the full punch of the iconic fruit, and put a peru-tinted spin on the festivities.

A delightfully strange and seasonal collaboration between Stranger & Sons and The Bombay Canteen, Perry Road Peru is the first of its kind in India – a single-batch, limited edition distilled cocktail. Inspired by the humble and highly seasonal, pink guavas (‘perus’) that line the streets of Bombay twice a year, they found the perfect muse to capture Bombay’s spirit. Fresh, balanced and luscious, it lingers on the palate long enough to take you back to ‘peru’s of days past and leaves you wanting more! 

With a nostalgic aroma and a ripe, robust flavor, this limited-edition cocktail is the perfect union of the potent peru and the 9 Indian botanicals in Stranger & Sons gin. As rituals go, this year too Stranger & Sons monopolized the season’s choicest pink peru carts across the country. This bounty of fruit at its peak is peeled and slowly macerated for 6 hours and then distilled for another 18 hours —till every drop is flushed with freshness in the gin to deliver a limited season release that captures the peru’s heady aroma and flavor. And in typical Bombay fashion, this seasonal distilled cocktail. It can be enjoyed over ice in a rocks glass or topped up with tonic or soda in a highball, served with a spiced rim!

Balanced in flavor and flamboyant in hue, Perry Road Peru will be available in select stores and cities starting with Maharashtra (Mumbai, Pune), Goa and will soon be in Karnataka. However, like the pink perus it’s made with, the seasonal Perry Road Peru will also have a limited run in each city! 

Perry Road Peru was conceptualized right from the start as an expression of their shared love for local and seasonal and a celebration of the city. Furthermore, it was their thirst for innovation that led the teams at Stranger & Sons & The Bombay Canteen to create something unique and entirely new for India’s cocktail and gin enthusiasts. About the same time in 2020, Perry Road Peru ushered in the era of bottled cocktails and took the city of Bombay by storm. Cornered by Peru fanatics and overwhelmed by a never-ending sea of requests from cities all over, the folks at Stranger & Sons and The Bombay Canteen just had to come together once again to coax the season’s last harvest out of Bandra’s famed Peru cart! 

Speaking on the decision to take Perry Road Peru across the country, Sakshi Saigal, Co-founder & Director of Third Eye Distillery had this to add, “Perry Road Peru caused quite a stir not just in Mumbai but even among people across the country and parts of the world. Tons of people resonated with the product in unimaginable ways! From what was planned as an interesting experiment for us to channel our creativity and drive for innovation; after the overwhelming response in Mumbai in the last 2 years, we realized that we just had to create the experience for a larger audience.”

“As champions of seasonal and local produce, The Bombay Canteen is delighted to join hands with Stranger & Sons for this first of its kind collaboration that celebrates all things Bombay. But Perry Road Peru isn’t just another cocktail in a bottle but an expression of both brands’ love for all things local and nostalgic, and with this collaboration we step into a whole new territory to bring you a celebratory drink to be enjoyed with family and friends this festive season. It is the nostalgia inspired flavor of Bombay in an all-new and unexpected avatar; a bit like the spirit of the city – sweet, sour, spicy and salty all captured in this bottle.” said Sameer Seth, founder & CEO of The Bombay Canteen (Hunger Inc. Hospitality) in anticipation of Perry Road Peru hitting markets across cities.

As two India-proud enterprises, they are all set to take their collaboration to the next level and it’s indeed going to be a head-turning, thirst-quenching adventure, especially for those who get to witness it up close!

Perry Road Peru will be available in select stores across Maharashtra and Goa and will soon be hitting the shelves in Karnataka too.