How do I make one, you ask . . .
I was recently surprised with a drink created especially for a party I was part of at the Marriott Suites Hotel on Sand Key in Clearwater Florida. We had just started our wine when the waiter brought us all a shimmering topaz-jewel of a drink in a martini glass. The beautiful blue creation was a takeoff on a traditional Cosmopolitan. It tasted like a blue popsicle and went down like Mother's milk. In case you don't know what a Cosmopolitan is:
Cosmopolitan Cocktail recipe:
1 oz vodka
1/2 oz triple sec
1/2 oz lime juice
1/2 oz cranberry juice
Shake all ingredients vigorously in a shaker with ice. Strain into a martini glass, garnish with a lime wedge on the rim, and serve.
Watercolour Cosmopolitan
I like that the name of the drink I was served is a play on words. It is named for the restaurant we were seated in, the Watercolour Steakhouse and Grille, which, by the way, was just named "Best Steakhouse" by Tampa Bay Magazine. On top of that, the drink is also so beautiful that its picture could be done in watercolor. That is, if you could refrain from drinking it long enough to paint it! It looks, smells and tastes great! The Watercolour Cosmopolitan is now on their very impressive cocktail menu. I managed to pry the recipe out of Shaughn Riley, the Assistant Manager of Beverages, just so you could taste it for yourselves.
Watercolour Cosmopolitan recipe:
2 parts Gray Goose Vodka
1 part Blue Curacao
1 part Quantreau
Dash of lime juice
Fill with white cranberry juice.
Shake all ingredients vigorously in a shaker with ice. Strain into a martini glass, garnish with a orange slice on the rim, and serve.
Theirs was originally garnished with a lemon wedge, but I think the color, shape and taste of the orange works better. Try it both ways and see what you think. Then have a third one just because they taste so good. But don't be confused by the dessert-like taste, it packs quite a wallop! BTW - if you are making this for sale, think of it as an $18 dollar drink.
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Comments: 26
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Another excuse to drink.
They used a stilletto heel to stir it (got ya!)
Madame - I AM at the Hudson Valley Food & Wine Festival. I did the Food part Friday night, today I taste all the Reislings! You thought only women could Multi-task? Harumph!
Dorine, Mine too!
Surprizingly, drinking gray goose straignt (the lengths I must go to for a story!) removed all my previous dislike for vodka. (I can't say the same for sewer water, Sandy) GG is so different, that if it is the taste of vodka you don't like (versus its aftereffects) you might want to try some.
Thanks everyone - I have Sunday morning to attend to before the wine tastings - so - ta ta!
Maybe they've only tried the cheap junk. If you can't spring for Grey Goose, at least get Stoli or Absolut; avoid the cheap junk like Jacquin's and Smirnoff!
Store ur vodka in the freezer, along with your gin. Really cold tastes extra good. The alcohol content is high enough that it doesnt freeze; it just gets a bit viscous. Yum!
Sorry if that makes me a heathen, but no vodka for me.
Isn't the rum a bit overpowering?