But back to this cocktail that has the incongruous name of Calvados Daisy. Cocktail Monkey, however, informed me that the term daisy in mixology means that it is a sour cocktail modified by a liqueur. As the site further explains:
…you will start with two parts spirit, one part sweet, and one part sour.The difference here is that the spirit is divided between
Our Travelling Bartender also introduced us to Seedlip, made by a delightfully quirky British company that
Seedlip’s founder, Ben Branson, actually got start-up funds from Diageo, a global spirits distributor that owns Johnny Walker, Tanqueray and Guinness. If you are curious about the beautiful labels and the graphics on his website, both he and his father have been respected brand designers. But it still comes down to his perfecting these unusual (and somewhat
Branson refined his experiments to three signature blends. The first is Garden, which I find to be the most vegetal – a blend featuring peas, hay, spearmint, rosemary, hops and thyme. The second, titled Spice, is a distillation of allspice, green cardamom, cascarilla, grapefruit and lemon.The third is called Grove and features aromas and flavors of bitter orange, blood orange, lemon grass, lemon, mandarin and ginger – it remains my favorite.The Seedlip site offers a thoughtfully curated selection of drinks made with all three distilled waters. In fact, you should try Seedlip’s CosNOpolitan for yourself – 2oz Seedlip Grove 42, 1 oz organic cranberry juice, 1/2 oz lime juice, 1/2 oz simple syrup – all shaken not stirred with ice, garnished with an orange peel in a coupe glass. Highly satisfactory. And not a speck of alcohol.
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