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Its semi-savory quality led us at Pitts to pairing it with sumac in a highball, but our house Cosmo recipe uses a hefty pour of the vodka as the base. Its smooth and mixes well, and its flavored variants (particularly the honeysuckle and bitter orange options) arent overly sweet and can be easily incorporated in cocktails as well.
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Guests appreciate how Calvados enhances body and adds complexity to drinks, whether served in a simple highball or a reimagined Old Fashioned, says Rivas. Calvados, with its orchard fruit base, offers apple-forward flavors balanced by oak and spice, making it ideal for autumnal cocktails and nuanced twists on classics.
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Sure, it’ll make a fine whiskey cola or ginger with bitters. And for the lightness of flavor, it makes a pretty good highball, too.” Beyond the simple highball and Old Fashioned options, advanced mixological implications abound. But it also plays well in sours, especially with baking spices or fruits. Peach and corn?
A carefully balanced mix of whiskey, sweet vermouth, and Angostura bitters, with a cocktail cherry garnish, it is a timeless masterpiece. The palate starts sweet, but is countered by a complex bitter finish. It’s pleasant and approachable on the palate, absent of the grippy bitterness that can be challenging.
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The bitterness of the pomegranate naturally piggybacks on the bitterness of the grapefruit and gives off such a great bitter finish. He also adds a touch of Granada Vallet, a pomegranate liqueur known for its aggressive bitter notes. At the end of the day, it’s just a simple Mexican highball,” he says.
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The first looks like a Martini glass and is filled with two-and-one-half ounces of Old Raj gin, a half-ounce of González Byass dry vermouth, and a couple dashes of orange bitters. The compromise was to give the customer the usual Martini and use the dirty ice for a vermouth highball. I’m like, ‘Just give me the drink!’”
The Vodka Y Soda isn’t just a two-ingredient highball; they add guava and pasilla into the mix, and the result is refreshing and intensely flavorful. Romeo’s , helmed by alumni of fellow EV-staple Virginia’s, offers a chill spot for fancy drinks and basic highballs in an aesthetic that references the ‘90s.
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