There is nothing better than making cocktails at home for friends especially during Christmas. It reminds me that spare time is priceless…
Most of the time, bartenders create cocktails because they want to enhance their bar’s cocktail menu with a few signature recipes. Some other times the trigger that makes a bartender to design a new cocktail is a bartending competition while many fold, mixologists invent new concoctions because of a special event. This time the case was totally different: I was at home with friends and one of them had brought a bottle of the fascinating 2012 Georges Duboeuf Beaujolais Nouveau. I love so much the fresh, fruity flavour of this young and easy to drink wine, so I uncorked the bottle and I shared it with my friends. Of course, I could not resist making a cocktail. Since it was December I decided to make a Christmas cocktail and the characteristic aromas of red cherries and strawberries, made me think of what could happen if I would combine this non tannic red wine with genever and Dr Adam’s Elmegirab Christmas bitters. Wanna know how it tasted ? Try my recipe and let me know what you think. Here is what you have to do:
- 50 ml Old Schiedam Single Malt Genever
- 40 ml Georges Duboeuf Beaujolais Nouveau
- 5 dashes Dr Adam’s Elmegirab Christmas bitters