The best cocktails for 2015
The best cocktails for 2015

Here are five cocktails from the award wining bartenders of the country

Earlier this year, Tulleeho.com, India’s most authoritative website on alcohol and cocktails, invited 16 of the country’s most respected and award-winning bartenders to create a special cocktail each, which would `shake, rattle and stir in 2015’. With names such as Pecore Negroni, Last Tango in Modena and Walk The Talk, each of these creations belong on the top rung of any mixology list. In fact, one of them, The Optimist, by Devender Sehgal , the bartender at the Hong Kong restaurant, Otto e Mezzo Bombana, won the prestigious Hong Kong & Macau final of the Bacardi Legacy Global Cocktail Competition last week. We asked Tulleeho.com founder Vikram Achanta to pick five of his favourites, presented here.

 

The Optimist By Devender Sehgal, 8 1/2 Otto e Mezzo Bombana, Hong Kong

 

Ingredients

 

52.5 ml Bacardi White

 

11 ml ginger syrup

 

11 ml honey water

 

A handful of basil leaves

 

22.5 ml lime juice

 

Method

 

Add all the ingredients in a cocktail shaker. Add ice and shake well. Double strain in a coupe glass and garnish with a thin slice of cucumber. Rinse the glass with yellow Chartreuse before pouring your cocktail.

 


 

Last Tango in Modena By Sandy Verma, Sandy’s Bar and Kitchen, Gurgaon

 

Ingredients

 

60 ml tequila

 

10 ml passion fruit puree (Monin)

 

10 ml passion fruit juice

 

20 ml fresh lime juice

 

5-6 fresh basil leaves

 

1/4 green chilli

 

A few slices of assorted bell peppers

 

Garnish

 

1/2 fresh passion fruit, 1 orchid flower and basil leaf

 

Method

 

Muddle, shake and double strain into a margarita coupette glass.

 


 

Cointreaulicious By Ami Shroff, Flair Bartender and Winner La Maison Cointreau, India, 2014

 

Ingredients

 

45 ml Cointreau

 

20 ml Remy Martin VSOP

 

4 tsp chopped overripe pineapple

 

15 ml spiced jaggery syrup

 

8-10 ml fresh lemon juice

 

Garnish

 

Half an orange slice, lemon slice, 1 tsp chopped (overripe) pineapple, tiny pinch of cinnamon powder, a stick of lemongrass and straw

 

Method

 

Prepare spiced jaggery syrup (heat 100 ml water with ginger, lemongrass and cinnamon. Add approximately 100 gm of jaggery until it melts completely. Take off the fire and add 20 ml honey). Add all the ingredients. Muddle the pineapple well in a shaker. Fine strain over crushed ice in a rock glass

 


 

The Queen by Dibyendu Chaki, Someplace Else @ The Park, Kolkata

 

Ingredients

 

45 ml Bombay Sapphire

 

15 ml Martini Bianco

 

½ bar spoon gulkand

 

Caol Ila to rinse glass

 

1 dash orange bitters

 

Garnish

 

1 rosepetal

 

Method

 

In a mixing glass add gin, bitters, vermouth and gulkand. Add ice, stir well and pour into a pre-chilled coupe glass, rinsed with Caol Ila.

 


 

Pecore Negroniby Prahlad Sukthankar, Black Sheep Bistro, Goa

 

Ingredients

 

1 oz Campari

 

1 oz sweet vermouth (Martini Rosso)

 

1 oz “Cazulo” — a copper pot double-distilled Goan coconut feni, which is used instead of gin

 

3-4 drops of cashew feni infused with orange

 

Method

 

Stirred on ice in a rock glass, with a flamed orange peel

 


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