D.C.'S Mixtress Of The Night

UMD fine arts and psychology grad is now a rising business owner who shakes up scene by creating drinkable art.

By Liam Farrell, Terp magazine.

There was a time when the path of a drink Gina Chersevani served was simple. It started and ended in a tub full of other light beers at Terrapin Station.

On a chilly morning last November, she began that same journey in a more sophisticated—and unlikely—locale: a Northwest D.C. tea shop.

“What’s a stronger version of English breakfast?” Chersevani ’99, ’00 asked two women behind the counter at Teaism. “I want something darker, but that kind of flavor.”

She ended up with Keemun and Ceylon (respectively described by Teaism as “bright, wirey, tippy” and “with a slight smokiness and notes of sugar cane and red wine”), two flavors to combine into homemade syrup for the cocktails she has become famous for in the nation’s capital.

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