Wave goodbye to summer and get ready for the flavors of fall! As we go from flip flops to flats and boots, it’s time to relish the countless ingredients available to use in cocktails and cooking. Save the berry drinks for next summer; now’s the time to enjoy such favorites as apples, cinnamon, figs, pumpkin and pear.
According to Partida Tequila’s Bartender Ambassador Jacques Bezuidenhout, fall is a time for experimenting with cocktail flavors. “Fall is one of my favorite cocktail seasons, because flavors like apple, pear, cider and baking spice blend so nicely with aged spirits like Anejo Tequila, Whisky and Cognac. You can still have fun with other spirits like unaged Tequila, but now is the time that brown spirits really shine.”
Below please find four delicious cocktails for fall that incorporating the flavors of the season.
Fall Coffee Tequila Negroni
- 1.5 oz Partida Reposado
- 1 oz Port Fonseca Bin 47
- 3/4 oz Campari
- 1/4 oz Coffee Liqueur
Stir all ingredients and serve in an old-fashioned glass on an ice cube. Garnish with an orange twist.
by Jacques Bezuidenhout
- 1.5 oz Partida Blanco
- 3/4 oz St-Germaine elderflower liqueur
- 1/2 oz lemon juice
- Top with hard apple cider (i.e. Stella Cidre or cider on tap)
Build ingredients in a highball glass with ice, finish with cider. Stir. Garnish with apple or lemon slices.
Autumn Woods
by Mike Ryan, Sable Kitchen & Bar, Chicago
- 2 oz Partida Reposado
- 1/8 oz Partida 100% Organic Agave Nectar
- 3 sage leaves
- 3 dashes Regan’s Orange Bitters
In first glass, rinse with walnut liqueur and fill with crushed ice. In second glass, muddle sage. Add in all ingredients, stir with ice. Toss out ice in first glass and strain ingredients from second glass into it. Garnish with a sage leaf.
courtesy of Crema Restaurant, NY
- 2 oz Partida Reposado
- 1 oz fresh lime/lemon juice mix
- Splash of pumpkin puree
- Sesame seeds
- Lime wedge
Rim a cocktail glass with lime juice and sesame seeds. Mix ingredients in a shaker with ice and shake well. Stir into cocktail glass. Garnish with a lime wedge.