Cosmopolitan cocktail

The Sour is one of the oldest cocktails around. Probably it is the starting point of the mixology. Jerry Thomas was the first one to write it down. The original sour cocktail recipe is based on a simple equilibrium: a sweet part (usually sugar syrup), a more bitter part given by lime or lemon juice and of course a distillate that gives character to the mix.The most used spirits are usually rhum (Daiquiri), bourbon, vodka and gin. Vodka Sour is one of the most popular summer cocktails, perfect for those looking for a light and fresh drink.

This classic twist on because of its name and its taste is an evocative one. By drinking this cocktail we start a journey to a magic and uncommon place: a blooming garden in the cold Russia.To the first sip we’re surrounded by a landscape which is very different from the traditional one of the hard Russian winter.We’re in the exact moment when, after months of black and white, Moscow is coloured thanks to the short and intense spring flowering. The white elderflower, magic plants that blooms between March and April, is the first ingredient of this fresh, fragrant and fruity cocktail.

The original cocktail was created at the end of XIX century, during the war between The United State and the Spain. They say that after the shipwreck of the ship Main, one of the Marines reached a little village near Santiago de Cuba, called Daiquiri. There, he entered entered a sort of shack used as a bar to quench his thirst.Because he refused to drink plain rhum, they added lime juice and he complet the mix with a little bit of sugar. So Daiquiri was born. The cocktail was, together with Mojito, one of the favourite of the famous writer Ernest Hamingway who said “My Mojito a La Bodeguita, My daiquiri a La Floridita”

Created in the early 1990s by Julio Bermejo, this cocktail takes its name from the family restaurant-bar in San Francisco, self-proclaimed "the best tequila bar on earth". Tommy's Margarita is now located in all the cocktail lists of the best bars in the world and, at the same time, the small family restaurant where this fabulous drink was born has become a mecca for bartenders and curious people who want to try to taste it, living an unforgettable experience. Compared to the classic Margarita, it enhances its flavor by replacing triple sec with agave syrup that is not by chance extracted from a fat plant in Mexico: the Agave Tequiliana Weber.