Subscribe to RSSWhy have another underwhelming drink upgrade your evening cocktails with Cognac? Here are a few delicious concoction courtesy of Pierre Ferrand that are sure to please your palate. Enjoy and cheers!
The Pierre Ferrand Ambre Cocktail
Ingredients:
Slice lime peel
4 slices Fresh Ginger
1.5 oz Pierre Ferrand Ambre Cognac divided
2 oz lemon flavored club soda (San Pellegrino Limonata)
1 slice cucumber peel
Serve in a glass tumbler.
Place the lime peel and ginger slices in a short tumbler. Add half of the cognac. Lightly press the lime and ginger 2 or 3 times using a muddler or the back of a spoon. Fill the glass halfway with ice. Stir for 5 seconds. Add the remaining cognac, club soda and cucumber peel. Stir for another 5 seconds.
Coffee Cocktail
1oz Pierre Ferrand Cognac
1 oz Ruby Port
1 Egg
.75 oz simple syrup
Garnish with grated nutmeg and serve in a port glass. Add all the ingredients to a cocktail shaker and fill with ice. Shake, and strain into a port glass. Dust with freshly grated nutmeg.
Matilda Liquer Champagne Cocktail
.75 oz lemon juice
.75 oz simple syrup
1.5 oz Frambois Cognac Liquor
1 oz Champagne
Garnish with a raspberry or long ribbon lemon peel. Serve in a champagne flute. Add all ingredients except champagne to shaker filled with ice. Shake well and strain into champagne flute. Top wih chamagne andgarnish choice.
Additional popular Cognac-based favorites include:
Grand Marnier: made from cognac and distilled essence of bitter orange
Pineau des Charentes: a sweet aperitif, composed of eau-de-vie and grape must, made in the Charente region
Domaine De Canton: cognac based ginger liqueur
Dutch brandy (Vieux), Dutch imitation cognac, usually containing some cognac
Chambord Liqueur: made from cognac infused with black and red raspberries and Madagascar vanilla
