2 summer cocktails to try at home. One a modern day favourite. The other an in-house creation.
Category: Vodka cocktails
Belly Dancer
The Belly Dancer is a cocktail developed in house and is an unusual twist on a Martini. Featuring a distinctive rose flavour.
Long Island Iced Tea – I’m really not sure
The Long Island Iced Tea. I’m really not sure about this cocktail. Not sure it’d make my Top 100 but it’s a well-known and popular cocktail. It lacks subtlety and if it was a car it’d be an American large block V8. A monster of a cocktail. 7 ingredients.
Tipping Point – modern and English cocktail
Try this aperitivo style cocktail with mainly English ingredients. It combines equal quantities of Kamm & Sons aperitif with Chase Marmalade vodka and half as much Martini Rosso. Slightly bitter in flavour, this is a great pre-dinner cocktail. More here.
French Martini – doesn’t quite do it somehow
French Martini is a modern cocktail which is well known, if not quite a classic. It combines vodka, with Chambord black raspberry liqueur and pineapple juice. All nice ingredients, but somehow I don’t this combination works. See what you think.
New cocktail recipe – Cote d’Azur
The Cote d’Azur is one big cocktail. Short and spirity, Pear dominated plus brandy.
Jacaranda afternoon – Lavender cocktail
The Jacaranda Afternoon is a lavender based cocktail containing both gin and vodka. So, it is powerful and heady, but a subtle flavoured botanical cocktail.
What to do with chocolate tonic
A great new spirit and mix combination featuring chocolate tonic from Peter Spanton. Chocolate tonic? Yes really. Try the Alpine & Tonic
Vodka – an interesting fact about …
An interesting fact about vodka is about how Smirnoff the Russian distillery got going in 1886. Now the largest selling spirit in the world.
Lavender Martini – a great modern English cocktail
Lavender Martini is a great English-style cocktail. Vanilla vodka base with dry vermouth and er.. lavender.
Perfection for Christmas Day – Marmalade champagne
Simple yet stunning and classy cocktail for Christmas. Our Christmas morning tipple is Marmalade champagne. A simple combination of Chase Marmalade vodka and Prosecco. You can of course use champagne or cava as an alternative. No shaking, no mucking about, a simple and elegant cocktail.
Black Jack – a liquorice cocktail
Black Jack is a new cocktail based on the classic Black Russian. The flavours have been modified. This contains vanilla vodka, Kahlua coffee liqueur and the special ingredient Monin liquorice syrup. The finished product is a dark, rich and surprisingly chocolatey.