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.
Ethereal Negroni
This light, subtle Negroni is a variation of the “Unusual Negroni” adapted from Difford’s Guide. The twist is that it’s made with Aperol and Lillet with a bit of citrus, for a soft botanical cocktail with a dry finish. A lovely aperitif to enjoy in the heat of summer.
1 oz. NOLET'S Silver Gin
0.75 oz. Aperol
0.75 oz. Lillet Blanc
0.5 oz. Fresh Lemon Juice
Add all ingredients to a mixing glass or shaker with ice. Shake or stir well and strain into a coupe or Martini glass (can also be served in the traditional way, over ice in a rocks glass). Garnish with a lemon peel.
Strawberry Sour
A seasonal gin sour is always a good idea. The fruit and floral botanicals in NOLET'S Silver are perfectly complimented with the addition of fresh strawberries and elderflower liqueur, and lemon; a perfectly balanced sweet and tart cocktail.
1.5 oz. NOLET'S Silver Gin
0.5 oz. Elderflower Liqueur
0.75 oz. Fresh Lemon Juice
3-4 Fresh Strawberries (or 2 oz. Strawberry Pureé)
Fresh Strawberry, Mint and/or Lemon for Garnish
Combine all ingredients in a cocktail shaker and muddle the strawberries until all liquid is released. Add ice, and shake until well chilled. Strain and pour into a chilled coupe. Garnish with a strawberry, some mint, or lemon wheel.
Peach Lemonade Slushy
Based on our fabulous Peach Lemonade recipe, when it gets really hot, you're going to want a Peach Lemonade Slushy. You'll need to prep this a tiny bit by freezing peach slices, then it's easy-peasy, throw it all in the blender, and serve! This recipe makes 2 slushies.
2.5 oz. NOLET'S Silver Gin
0.5 oz. Elderflower Liqueur
3 oz. Lemonade
1.5 cups of Fresh or Frozen Sliced Peaches
Slice and freeze peaches for approximately 1.5 hours in advance of making. To build the cocktail, combine all ingredients in a blender. Blend until the mixture is smooth, and serve!
Arnaud (Parisian Nights)
This equal-parts blush cocktail is French in origin, named for the pre-war chanteuse, Yvonne Arnaud. It's a classic cocktail with sweet black currant liqueur in harmony with the fruit botanicals and dry vermouth.
1 oz. NOLET'S Silver
1 oz. Dry Vermouth
1 oz. Black Currant Liqueur (like Cassis Noir de Bourgogne or Cream de Cassis)
Combine all ingredients over ice in a mixing glass. Stir until chilled and serve in a chilled coupe glass with a blackberry garnish.
- This recipe is modified from the Difford's Guide.
