Photo: Katikies Mykonos
A list of cocktails specially designed for the most colorful time of the year, autumn!
With the arrival of autumn, bartenders are passionate about creating cocktails that rhyme with seasonal ingredients. The idea of being surrounded by a welcoming atmosphere and keeping warm also rhymes with an “autumn cocktail”.
The ingredients for this season’s cocktails vary but revolve around common characteristics such as sweet, spicy and strong tastes: nutmeg, cinnamon, berries, apricot, chocolate, cloves, apple, chestnuts…
The following recipes are made in different hotel bars around the world.
Tokyo – Japan – Hotel Gajoen
Cocktail: Marron Cleopatra
0.34 oz rum
0.85 oz of chestnut liquor
0.50 oz of coffee liqueur
0.34 oz of fresh cream
Cinnamon stick
Adding ingredients in a shaker. Pour the contents into a cocktail glass and introduce a cinnamon stick.
Las Vegas – United States – Venetian Resort
Cocktail: Secret Agent
2 oz of Elijah Craig bourbon
.25 oz of Giffard apricot brandy
.25 oz of allspice dram
2 dashes of bitter chocolate
Combine the ingredients in a whiskey glass, add a 2×2 cube and stir. Decorate with an orange peel.
Rome – Italy – Rome Cavalieri Waldorf Astoria
Cocktail: Centenarius
1 oz of Rivo sloe gin
1 oz of bitter Bitter Campari with infusion of cinnamon and cloves
1 oz of Carpano Antica Formula
Mix the ingredients in a rock glass with ice.
Melbourne – Australia – Crown Towers Bistro Guillaume
Cocktail: Blood Orange Garibaldi Spritz
1.5 oz of Campari
1 oz blood orange puree
Simple syrup
Water soda
Candied Orange
Add the Campari, the mash and the syrup in a glass with ice. Finish with soda water and decorate with the candied orange.
Dolomites – Switzerland – Alpine Dolomites
Cocktail: Fall in the Dolomites
1.5 oz of rum zu Plun
Chestnut paste washed with grease*
2 teaspoons fig puree
2 dashes of bitter chocolate
Apple Soda
*Leave the rum to infuse in the chestnut paste for one night in the fridge. The next day, add the fat to obtain the chestnut-flavored rum. You can also add a teaspoon of chestnut paste to the cocktail.
Combine the ingredients minus the soda in a shaker. Filter and pour all the liquid into a rock glass. Finish with an apple soda top.
New York – United States – Baccarat Hotel
Cocktail: Bespoke
2 oz of Cognac Rémy Martin 1738
3/4 oz of Tempus Fugit, cocoa cream
1/2 oz of Bitter Vallet
2 dashes of Havana bitters
Cinnamon stick, mint stick
Add the ingredients in a mixing glass and stir about 30-40 times. Pour into a large rock glass on ice. Decorate with a stick of cinnamon and mint.
Mykonos – Greece – Katikies Mykonos
Cocktail: Liva
1.7 oz of Ciroc vodka
.68 oz of Mancino vermouth
.34 oz of Monin lavender syrup
.34 oz of Sosa Ingredient’s crystallized violet
Dissolve the crystallized violet in hot water to create a syrup. Then add all the ingredients in a shaker. Shake hard and pour into a glass.
Vietnam – Hoi An – Four Seasons Resort The Nam Hai, Hoi An
Cocktail: Birds Nest
1.5 oz of Grey Goose vodka
1/2 oz of Southern Comfort
4 oz of Salaganes or bird’s nest water (available online or in Asian supermarkets)
.34 oz orange juice tangerine
.17 oz of lime juice
Homemade brine (with white vinegar, green apple and orange)
.34 oz of simple syrup
Orange Twist
Combine the ingredients in a shaker with ice cubes. Strain twice in a glass of previously cooled wine, without ice. Garnish with orange twists on a cocktail pick.
Don’t drink and drive. Enjoy responsibly.