The Next Level of Homemade Drinks
Manuel asked me to create a Spritz-style cocktail using one of his citrus eaux de vie. I was more than happy to oblige, simply combining the eau de vie with some syrup. As with all sparkling wine cocktails, the quality of the wine used is paramount.
I have tried a few mandarin eau de vies so far, but I never had one distilled from clementines. Of course, those two citrus varities are quite similar that is why you can only but clementines as fresh fruits. Yet, this did not stop me from using the spirit in another summer highball.
As I mentioned last year when I reviewed several blood orange eau de vies, it is a bit of a trend with European distillers to make one. So, a bit overdue Lantenhammer has weight in, but when they did, they made sure that they did it right. The new blood orange eau de vie is […]
