A toast to Autumn with exquisite seasonal vodka cocktails
Embrace the new season with cocktails that celebrate harvest and warming spices. The world’s most admired vodka, Tovaritch!, brings you two vodka cocktails that capture the spirit of Autumn and will be perfect for entertaining during the ‘season of mists and mellow fruitfulness’.
‘Ritch Mule with a Kick
This riff on the classic adds the heat from fresh ginger to bring a spicy autumnal twist, celebrating this smoothest of vodkas with the warmth of the ginger notes – and, if you have a garden, it showcases the last of that delicious fresh summer mint.
Ingredients
A few slices of fresh Ginger
60ml TovaRITCH! Vodka
15ml Freshly squeezed Lime Juice
Ginger Beer
Mint to garnish
Method
Muddle the fresh ginger in a shaker. Add the Tovaritch! Vodka and lime juice and then add ice. Shake and strain into a copper mug or glass of your choice, adding fresh ice. Top up with ginger beer and then garnish with a sprig of fresh mint and, perhaps, a slice of ginger.
Spiced Pear Vodka Martini
This sophisticated cocktail combines the rich sweetness of pear with a touch of spice and celebrates the seasonal delicacy that is ripe pears, preferably locally grown.
Ingredients
Fresh pear (ripe)
60ml TOVARITCH! Vodka
25ml Pear Liqueur
25ml Lemon Juice, freshly squeezed
To garnish: star anise, cinnamon sticks or lemon and cloves.
Method
First chill your martini glass, then rim it with a cinnamon-sugar mix to complement the pear and spice flavours.
Muddle a few slices of ripe pear with a pinch of ground clove in a shaker. Add the Tovaritch! Vodka, pear liqueur and lemon juice. Half fill the shaker with ice and shake until chilled. Strain the drink into the chilled martini glass. Garnish with a star anise and a cinnamon stick or a slice of lemon studded with a couple of cloves.
Tovaritch! Vodka is a smooth, premium, European spirit that has attracted 149 international awards so it is reassuringly popular and approved of by those professionals in the know. You can find it at Amathus Drinks and online retailers priced at around £25.50
