SPICED PEAR FIZZ
Ingredients
2 cups light brown sugar
2 cups caster or granulated sugar
2 1/2 cups water
2-3 slices from a 5cm ginger root
1 large star anise
6 black cardamom pods, lightly crushed
10 green cardamom pods, lightly crushed
6 black peppercorns
1 cinnamon stick
Juice from 1⁄2 a lime
1 strip of lime rind
6 Asian pears, peeled, stalks still on
35ml rum
For the garnish
2 cinnamon sticks
2 pear slices
2 dark glacé cherries or maraschino cherries
Directions
1. In a medium saucepan, combine sugar and water, dissolving the sugar over low heat.
2. Add spices and lemon, bringing the mixture to a simmer for 10 minutes to infuse the spices.
3. Add the pear and simmer for 10-12 minutes until tender. Remove pears and syrup to cool.
4. Place one pear on a plate, pour 35ml of rum into a ladle, light it carefully, and pour over the pear to flambé. Once cool, cut two slices from the middle and pin onto a cocktail pique with a cherry at the base.
5. Pour rum into two glasses, strain 10-20ml of syrup into each, stir, and add Unshackled Sparkling, pear garnish, and a gently smoking cinnamon stick on the glass rim.
GRAPEFRUIT & THYME SPRITZ
For the ice cubes
Grapefruit and lemon zest and pieces, cut into
medium sized strips
Thyme sprigs
Edible flowers (cornflowers, alyssum or borage are
good)
For the infusion
1-2oz agave syrup
A handful of thyme sprigs
Pink grapefruit juice from 1⁄2 a grapefruit, zest and
segments from the other half
Zest strips and wedges from half a lemon
2 tsp grated root ginger plus 3 long slices
1 1/3oz vodka
For the cocktail
Squeeze of grapefruit juice
8 1/2oz Unshackled Rosé
To garnish
White sugar
Lime zest and segment for coating rim
Pink grapefruit peel/slice
Thyme sprigs
Directions
1. Put the flowers, zest and herbs in ice-cube trays.
2. Top up with water and freeze.
3. Add the infusion ingredients to a mixing glass/large sturdy glass, muddle with a muddler or small rolling pin.
4. Rim two highball glasses by coating with the lime segment then dipping into a plate of sugar mixed with a little lime zest.
5. Strain the infusion between the two rimmed glasses over the garnished ice.
6. Add a squeeze of grapefruit juice, the Unshackled Rosé and slice or twist of pink grapefruit.
OOO SAUVIGNON BLANC SPRITZER
Ingredients
4 oz. Unshackled Sauvignon Blanc
1 oz. club soda
1 oz. gin (optional for a long weekend)
Dash of orange or lemon bitters
1 orange or lemon twist
Directions
Pour Unshackled Sauvignon into a glass filled with ice, then add gin, club soda, and bitters. Garnish with your choice of citrus.
NO-BLEND RED BLEND MARGARITA
Ingredients
1 ½ oz tequila
1 oz. lime juice
1/2 oz. simple syrup
3/4 oz. Unshackled Red Blend
Directions
Pour tequila, lime juice, and simple syrup into a cocktail shaker filled with ice. Shake well until chilled and strain into a glass filled with ice. Pour Unshackled Red Blend over the back of a spoon to float it on top of the tequila mix. Garnish with lime.