Watermelon Sour
Delightfully refreshing the NOLET'S Watermelon Sour makes a lovely and simple cocktail to enjoy all summer long. Best made with fresh watermelon, the combination of tart and sweet with luxurious botanicals in NOLET'S Silver are perfectly suited.
2 oz NOLET’S Silver Gin
1 oz Watermelon Juice
0.5 Fresh Squeezed Lime Juice
0.5 oz Honey Syrup (1:1 Honey & Water)
Pinch of Salt
Watermelon Slice for Garnish
Add all ingredients into a shaker with ice and shake for 30-60 seconds until the tin gets frosty. Double strain into a coupe glass and garnish with a watermelon slice.
Emerald Sour
This verdant cocktail while simple to construct, is supremely complex. The fruit and floral botanicals in NOLET'S combined with the herbal spicy notes in the rare Chartreuse create a multifaceted, sophisticated cocktail with layers and layers of flavor. The emerald color is delightful and makes this very special, sensory cocktail one to be savored.
1.5 oz NOLET'S Silver Gin
0.75 oz Fresh Lime Juice
0.25 oz Green Chartreuse
0.25 Simple Syrup
Fresh Mint and/or Lime Wheel for Garnish
In a shaker, combine all ingredients with ice and shake vigorously until chilled. Pour into a coupe glass, garnish, and serve.
Pomegranate Martini
The NOLET'S Pomegranate Martini is as delicious as it is festive! A little tart and a little sweet, this scarlet libation works well as a pre-made batched cocktail to make entertaining a snap.
1.5 oz NOLET’S Silver Gin
1 oz Pomegranate Juice
1 oz Fresh Lime Juice
0.5 oz Honey Syrup
Pomegranate arils and sliced lime to garnish
Add all ingredients to a shaker with ice. Shake until well chilled and pour into a coupe or Martini glass. Garnish with pomegranate arils and a lime wheel.
For a pitcher (approximately 6-8 cocktails)
3 cups of NOLET’S Silver Gin
2 cup Pomegranate Juice
1 cup Fresh Lime Juice
1 cup Honey Syrup
Mix all ingredients in a pitcher with ice and serve up in a coupe or Martini glass garnished with pomegranate arils, lime wheel, and or a sprig of mint.
Classic Gin Sour
A classic of the cocktail canon, the NOLET'S Gin Sour is duly delightful and unique. Because it's simple, the botanicals shine through and take center stage, providing a fruit and floral backbone that is delightfully accented with citrus and delivered in a frothy, velvet-like mouthfeel. You'll likely commit this recipe to memory and keep shaking it on repeat.
2 oz NOLET’S Silver Gin
1 oz Fresh Squeezed Lemon Juice
0.5 oz Honey
0.5 oz Orange Juice
Egg White or 0.5 oz Aquafaba
A Few Dashes of Bitters
Add all ingredients but the bitters to a shaker and dry shake (without ice) to blend. Add in some ice and continue to shake for 30-60 seconds or until the tin gets frosty. Double strain into a coupe glass and garnish with a few dashes of bitters. To make a heart shape out of the bitters, carefully drip a few drops on the top of the cocktail, and using a cocktail pick, carefully score the drop, creating a heart.
FESTIVE FRENCH 75
Celebrate the holidays in true luxury with our Festive French 75 cocktail, featuring the exceptional NOLET'S Silver. Craft a pitcher of this exquisite elixir, and offer your guests a taste of pure refinement. Crown each glass with fine Champagne, transforming a simple cocktail into a luxurious libation as you revel in the season.
For a pitcher (6-8 servings):
1 cup NOLET’S Silver Gin
0.25 cup Campari
0.25 cup Fresh Lemon Juice
0.5 cup Cranberry Juice
Champagne or Sparkling Wine
Garnish with Fresh Cranberries or Citrus Peel
Combine the NOLET’S Silver, Campari, lemon juice, and simple syrup in a pitcher with ice. When ready to serve, pour the mixture into a flute or coupe (filling about 1/2 way) and top with Champagne or sparkling wine. Serve with a cranberry garnish or a swath of citrus.
For a single-serve cocktail:
1 oz NOLET'S Silver Gin
0.25 oz Campari
0.25 oz Fresh Lemon Juice
0.25 oz Cranberry Juice
Champagne or Sparkling Wine
Garnish with Fresh Cranberries or Citrus Peel
Combine everything but Champagne in a mixing tin with ice. Shake the mixture until the tin is sweating and the liquid is combined and chilled. Pour into a flute or coupe glass, top with Champagne or Sparkling Wine and garnish.
Cosmopolitan
We updated the 80's classic Cosmo with a flavor-bursting modern botanical gin variant. It's not your mother's Cosmo!
1.5 oz NOLET’S Silver Gin
2 oz Cranberry Juice
1 oz Cointreau®
Garnish with a Lemon Twist
Combine the cranberry juice, NOLET’S Silver Gin, and orange liqueur in a shaker with ice. Shake vigorously and strain into a chilled coupe or martini glass. Garnish with a lemon twist.
Nolet-tini, the Perfect Martini
Mashed up and modernized from the classic Martinez & Martini the Nolet-tini is a perfectly balanced spirit-forward cocktail, an excellent choice for any occasion.
1.5 oz NOLET'S Silver Gin
1 oz Dry Vermouth
1 oz Sweet Vermouth
0.25 oz Maraschino Liqueur
A couple of dashes of Bitters (experiment with a fruit bitter like Rhubarb and a basic bitter combined)
Combine all ingredients in a cocktail mixing glass and stir with ice until well-chilled. Strain into a chilled Martini or Coupe glass, and garnish with lemon peel.
Pornstar Martini
The Pornstar Martini; a tongue-in-cheek name for the “bold, sexy, playful” cocktail that's always served with a side of sparkling wine or Champagne. Created by Douglas Ankrah at the Lab Bar in London, it's said that he tried something similar on a trip to South Africa. We adjusted the recipe to complement our fruit and floral botanicals, and once you make it, it'll be on repeat until the passion (fruit) dries up.
1.5 oz NOLET'S Silver Gin
0.5 oz Marachino Liqueur
2 Passion Fruits (carefully halved, saving 1/2 for garnish)
0.5 oz Fresh Lime Juice
0.5 oz Vanilla Simple Syrup
2-3 oz Chilled Sparkling Wine or Champagne (served on the side)
Add all ingredients but 1/2 passion fruit and the sparkling wine into a shaker with ice and shake until well-chilled. Strain into a coupe glass and float the remaining 1/2 passion fruit for garnish, serve the sparkling wine on the side in a small glass.
Raspberry French 75 (batched)
Raspberry French 75's are crowd-pleasing cocktails for any celebration. The botanical in NOLET'S Silver provide a delightful complexity to the bubbly, fruit-forward classic cocktail. This pitcher recipe serves 8-10.
1 ½ cups NOLET'S Silver Gin
½ cup Raspberry Syrup
½ cup Fresh Lemon Juice
1 (750-ml) Bottle Dry Sparkling Wine or Champagne
Combine NOLET’S Silver, raspberry syrup, and lemon juice in a pitcher. Add 2 cups of ice, and stir well to combine so that the mixture is cold and some of the ice has melted. Add 1 bottle of dry sparkling wine and stir gently to combine. Serve in champagne flutes or coupe glasses and garnish with a raspberry or lemon peel.
Raspberry Syrup
1 cup Sugar
1 cup Raspberries (fresh or frozen)
1 cup Water
Combine all ingredients in a medium saucepan and bring to a gentle boil. Take off heat and let sit to cool for 15 minutes, then strain. Unused syrup can be stored in the refrigerator for a week.
Peach Flip
The creamy, Peach Flip cocktail is much like a spirit-forward slice of fresh peach pie. The trick to the perfect consistency is in the dry shake.
1.25 oz. NOLET’S Silver Dry Gin
1 oz. Peach Purée (smoothly blended Fresh or Frozen Peach)
1 Whole Egg*
0.5 oz. Lemon Juice
0.5 oz. Simple Syrup
Ground Nutmeg and Peach Slice to Garnish
Combine all ingredients in a mixing glass. Dry shake until emulsified (about one minute). Add ice and shake again, vigorously. Double strain into a Martini glass. Dust the top with nutmeg to garnish.
*For a vegan cocktail, substitute 2.5 Tbsp. aquafaba for the egg.
