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4 Cocktails

October — Orchards, Smoke, & Spook

Four drinks we're making this month, built from bottles on our shelf right now. Every recipe is short, and every bottle in it is one click away — tap "Add the bottles to your bag" and the whole spirits list lands in your cart at once. The rest is a grocery-run away.

Vodka

Apple Pie Martini

Whipped cream vodka is decadently creamy and sweet, which the cider and lemon cut through and balance. Cinnamon dots the rim, while nutmeg sprinkles the top — they are the crust and the filling.

Ingredients

2 ozSmirnoff Whipped Cream Vodka
2 dashesAngostura Aromatic Bitters
2 ozApple cider, unfiltered
½ ozLemon juice, freshly squeezed
¼ ozCinnamon syrup

Method

Rim half the glass with cinnamon sugar and chill it — half, so whoever is drinking it can choose.
Shake everything hard with ice for 12 seconds.
Double-strain into the glass.
Grate fresh nutmeg over the surface.

Glass Coupe · Garnish Cinnamon-sugar half rim, thin apple fan, grated nutmeg · Serves 1

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Bourbon

Paul's Powder Puff Matcha Gold Rush

Matcha is grassy and faintly bitter, which is tapered by the Wolcott's caramel mid-palate. The honey is the soft binding holding the two together.

Ingredients

2 ozWolcott Kentucky Straight Bourbon
¾ ozLemon juice, freshly squeezed
½ ozMatcha honey syrup

Method

For the syrup, whisk 1 tsp matcha into 4 oz warm honey syrup — equal parts honey and hot water — until no lumps remain. It keeps a week in the fridge.
Shake all three with ice for 12 seconds.
Strain over one large cube.
Twist the lemon peel over the surface, then drop it in.

Glass Rocks · Garnish Lemon twist · Serves 1

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Gin

Black Bramble

A bramble sensory excursion for late October. The cassis sinks through the crushed ice and bleeds down the glass on its own — natural coloring relying on gravity.

Ingredients

2 ozHayman's London Dry Gin
½ ozPaul Devoille Crème de Cassis
¾ ozLemon juice, freshly squeezed
½ ozSimple syrup
6Blackberries

Method

Muddle four of the blackberries with the syrup in a shaker.
Add the gin, lemon and ice, and shake for 10 seconds.
Strain over crushed ice, mounded high.
Drizzle the cassis slowly over the top and leave it alone.

Glass Rocks · Garnish Two blackberries and a lemon wheel · Serves 1

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Mezcal

Devil's Negroni

A Negroni with the gin swapped out for mezcal. Flame the peel over it and the whole drink emits aromas like a bonfire at a weekend beach campfire.

Ingredients

Method

Stir all three over ice for 30 seconds.
Strain over one large cube.
Hold a lit match beside the peel, squeeze it toward the flame, then drop it in.

Glass Rocks · Garnish Flamed orange peel · Serves 1

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