PH factor:  9.5 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 1 ½ ounces Woodford Reserve bourbon o ¾ ounce light Crème de Cacao o ¾ ounce Lillet Rouge o ¾ ounce fresh lemon juice Garnish o lemon twist Method: 1. Shake cocktail ingredients over ice. 2. Serve up in a cocktail glass. 3. Garnish with lemon twist. Remarks: This is a surprising cocktail. At first glance the ingredients don't seem like they would play well together, but they do. It is a tart but well-balanced cocktail with a hin

PH factor:  8.5 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 1 ½ ounces Lillet Rouge o 1 ½ ounces Manzanilla sherry o 1 dash orange bitters or to taste Garnish o orange twist Method: 1. Stir cocktail ingredients over ice in a mixing glass. 2. Serve up in a cocktail glass. 3. Express an orange twist over the glass and discard. Remarks: This is a tasty combination. The bitters maintain the balance here. . . .

PH factor:  8.5 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 1 ½ ounces Chivas Regal scotch o ½ ounce Lillet Blanc o ½ ounce Lillet Rouge o 1 dash orange bitters Garnish o orange peel Method: 1. Stir cocktail ingredients over ice in a mixing glass. 2. Serve up in a martini glass. 3. Garnish with orange peel. Remarks: Essentially a perfect Manhattan made with scotch. Therefore the result is a little drier than its rye or bourbon cousins. . . .

PH factor:  8.5 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 1 ounce Ilegal mezcal o ¾ ounce Boulard Calvados VSOP o ¼ ounce Fernet~Branca o 1 ounce Lillet Rouge o ¼ ounce Luxardo maraschino Garnish o apple fan Method: 1. Stir cocktail ingredients over ice in a mixing glass. 2. Strain into an ice-filled Old Fashioned glass. 3. Garnish with an apple fan. Remarks: This a very different tasting cocktail. It is impressive to be able to say that as we have tested quite a f

PH factor:  8.0 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 1 ½ ounces Campari o 1 ½ ounces Lillet Rouge o ½ ounce Fever-Tree Premium Club Soda Garnish o lemon wheel Method: 1. Shake cocktail ingredients except soda over ice. 2. Strain into an ice-filled collins glass. 3. Top with soda. 4. Garnish with a thinly sliced orange wheel. Remarks: First served in the 1860s, the Americano was the earliest Campari cocktail predating the Negroni. It also predates the Vesper as the

PH factor:  9.5 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail       o 2 ounces 1800 Añejo tequila o ¼ ounce Licor 43, Cuarenta Y Tres o ½ ounce Lillet Rouge o 1 dash Angostura bitters o 1 dash orange bitters Garnish o Tillen Farms Merry Maraschino cherry wrapped in salami Method: 1. Stir cocktail ingredients over ice in a mixing glass. 2. Strain into a martini glass. 3. Garnish with the salami wrapped cherry. Remarks: Yes, the salami wrapped cherry. . . .

PH factor:  9.5 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 2 ounces Chivas Regal scotch o 1 ounce Lillet Rouge o ½ ounce Chambord o ½ ounce fresh orange juice Garnish o lemon peel Method: 1. Stir cocktail ingredients over ice in a mixing glass. 2. Serve up in a martini glass. 3. Garnish with lemon peel. Remarks: A most un-martini martini. It's fruity and sweet in a way that belies the fact that 4.5 of its 5 ounces are alcohol. This is not your grandmother’s martini. So

PH factor:  8.5 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 1 ½ ounces Ararat 5 Star Armenian brandy o ½ ounce Lillet Blanc o ½ ounce Lillet Rouge o 2 teaspoons Triple Sec Garnish o orange peel Method: 1. Stir cocktail ingredients over ice in a mixing glass. 2. Serve up in a cocktail glass. 3. Garnish orange peel. Remarks: If you haven't tried brandy from Yerevan, you should. Likened to Armagnac, it was a favorite of the tsars. . . .

PH factor:  9.5 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 2 ounces Johnnie Walker Black scotch o ¾ ounce Schladerer Edel-Kirsch liqueur o ¾ ounce Lillet Rouge o ¾ ounce fresh orange juice Garnish o orange peel Method: 1. Shake cocktail ingredients over ice. 2. Serve up in a martini glass. 3. Garnish with orange peel. Remarks: You may have noticed that when recipes call for cherry brandy we will often substitute Schladerer Edel-Kirsch. That's because we appreciate its

PH factor:  8.5 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o ¾ ounce Chivas Regal scotch o ¾ ounce Lillet Rouge o 2 ounces freshly squeezed blood orange juice o 3 ounces Lindemans Kriek Lambic Garnish o 2 Tillen Farms Bada Bing cherries Method: 1. Stir cocktail ingredients except lambic over ice in a mixing glass. 2. Strain into in an oversized martini or large cocktail glass. 3. Add lambic. 4. Garnish with cherries. Remarks: It was a challenge finding cocktails that

PH factor:  9.5 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 2 ounces Heaven’s Door Straight Rye whiskey o ½ ounce Lillet Rouge o ½ ounce Grand Marnier o 1 ounce blood orange juice o 1 dash Hella Orange bitters o 1 dash Hella Smoked Chili bitters Garnish o blood orange peel flamed Method: 1. Stir cocktail ingredients over ice in a mixing glass. 2. Serve over a single large ice cube in an Old Fashioned glass. 3. Garnish with orange peel. Remarks: You can give the wo

PH factor:  8.5 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 2 ounces Chivas Regal scotch o 1 ounce Lillet Blanc o 1 ounce Lillet Rouge o 1 splash Bénédictine D.O.M. Garnish o lemon twist Method: 1. Stir cocktail ingredients over ice in a mixing glass. 2. Serve up in a cocktail glass. 3. Garnish with lemon twist. Remarks: A classic cocktail with many recipes and origin stories. We suggest you try this version of the Bobby Burns. We think you will like it. . .

PH factor:  8.5 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 2 ounces Mount Gay Eclipse rum o 1 ounce Boulard Calvados VSOP o 1 splash of Lillet Rouge Garnish o Tillen Farms Merry Maraschino cherry Method: 1. Stir cocktail ingredients over ice in a mixing glass. 2. Serve up in a cocktail glass. 3. Garnish with a cherry. Remarks: An easy pleasant cocktail. If you want a sweeter Bolero try using a Jamaican rum. . . .

PH factor:  8.5 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 1 ounce Hennessy VS cognac o ½ ounce Lillet Blanc o ½ ounce Lillet Rouge o ¼ teaspoon Sambuca Romano o ½ teaspoon Triple Sec Method: 1. Stir cocktail ingredients over ice in a mixing glass. 2. Serve up in a cocktail glass. Remarks: Attributed to Harry Craddock, bartender and author of the Savoy Cocktail Book. . . .

PH factor:  8.0 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 1 ½ ounces Woodford Reserve bourbon o 1 ounce Campari o 1 ounce Lillet Rouge Garnish o orange twist Method: 1. Stir cocktail ingredients over ice in a mixing glass. 2. Serve up in a cocktail glass. 3. Garnish with an orange twist. Remarks: Ascribed to Erskine Gwynne who also founded a Parisian magazine of the same name, both in 1927. . . .

PH factor:  8.5 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 2 ounces Bombay gin o ½ ounce Lillet Blanc o ½ ounce Lillet Rouge o 1 ounce fresh orange juice Garnish o Tillen Farms Merry Maraschino cherry o orange wheel Method: 1. Shake cocktail ingredients over ice. 2. Serve up in a cocktail glass. 3. Garnish with an orange wheel and a cherry. Remarks: Created by Johnnie Solon at the Waldorf Astoria in 1906. It can be drunk at any time but must be drunk after the Openin

PH factor:  8.0 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o ¼ ounce Flor de Caña Extra Seco rum o ¼ ounce Cointreau o ¼ ounce Lillet Blanc o ¼ ounce Lillet Rouge o ¼ ounce Luxardo maraschino o ¼ ounce Schladerer Edel- Kirsch liqueur Garnish o lemon twist Method: 1. Stir cocktail ingredients over ice in a mixing glass. 2. Serve up in a cocktail glass. 3. Garnish with lemon twist. Remarks: There’s a whole lotta shakin’ going on. Not literally, you actually stir it,

PH factor:  9.0 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 1 ounce Crown Royal o ¾ ounce Bénédictine D.O.M. o ¾ ounce Lillet Rouge o 1 dash Pernod Absinthe Supérieure o 1 dash Peychaud’s bitters or to taste Garnish o lemon twist Method: 1. Stir cocktail ingredients over ice in a mixing glass. 2. Serve up in a cocktail glass. 3. Garnish with a lemon twist. Remarks: Once the house cocktail for the Restaurant de la Louisiane. The mix of whiskey, sweet vermouth, and

PH factor:  8.5 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 2 ounces Hennessy VS cognac o 1 ounce Boulard Calvados VSOP o ½ ounce Lillet Rouge Garnish o apple peel (optional) Method: 1. Stir cocktail ingredients over ice in a mixing glass. 2. Serve up in a martini glass. 3. Garnish with apple peel if using. Remarks: As you might deduce from the name, this is a very bracing cocktail. . . .

PH factor:  10 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 2 ounces Old Forester bourbon o 1 splash Bénédictine D.O.M. o 1 ounce Lillet Rouge o 1 splash Luxardo maraschino Garnish o lemon twist Method: 1. Stir cocktail ingredients over ice in a mixing glass. 2. Serve up in a cocktail glass. 3. Garnish with lemon twist. Remarks: With this cocktail, it’s all about balancing the tastes. Done right, it’s about as New Orleans as it can be. . . .

PH factor:  8.0 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 2 ounces Woodford Reserve bourbon o ½ ounce Lillet Rouge o ¼ ounce Luxardo maraschino o 1 dash Hella Orange bitters or to taste Garnish o orange twist Method: 1. Stir cocktail ingredients over ice in a mixing glass. 2. Strain into an ice-filled Old Fashioned glass. 3. Garnish with orange twist. Remarks: Deadly Sin? Only if sipping a delicious cocktail has somehow become a sin. Even if it has, we would rathe

PH factor:  9.5 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 1 ¼ ounces 1800 Reposado tequila o ¾ ounce Schladerer Edel-Kirsch o ¾ ounce Lillet Rouge o ¾ ounce fresh orange juice o 1 dash Hella Smoked Chili bitters or to taste o 1 bar spoon Ilegal mezcal Garnish o Tillen Farms Merry Maraschino cherry Method: 1. Shake cocktail ingredients except mezcal over ice. 2. Strain into an ice-filled double Old Fashioned glass. 3. Float mezcal on top. 4. Garnish with a

PH factor:  9.5 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 2 ounces Tullamore D.E.W. Irish whiskey o ½ ounce Grand Marnier o ½ ounce Lillet Rouge o 1 dash Hella Orange bitters or to taste Garnish o Tillen Farms Rainer Reserve cherry Method: 1. Stir cocktail ingredients over ice in a mixing glass. 2. Serve up in a cocktail glass. 3. Garnish with cherry. Remarks: We didn't know what we'd find from the combination of Irish whiskey, Grand Marnier, and the winey tas

PH factor:  9.0 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 2 ounces Woodford Reserve bourbon o 1 ounce Chambord o ¾ ounce Lillet Rouge o 1 dash Angostura bitters o 1 dash Peychaud’s bitters Garnish o orange twist (optional) Method: 1. Stir cocktail ingredients over ice in a mixing glass. 2. Serve up in a cocktail glass. 3. Garnish with orange twist if using. Remarks: This is unlike its “American” namesake. For starters, it is redolent of raspberry. Plus the Woodfo