Pomegranate Possibilities
With such emphasis on pomegranate I began playing around with PAMA Pomegranate Liqueur to come up with a twist on an old favorite. Pairing with the PAMA liqueur, I have used Three Olives Vodkas. Three Olives has a rather nice selection of flavored vodkas; twelve in fact. Although I have not tried them all, I have tried a few and the flavors stand up well with the vodka. Three Olives Vodkas are quadruple-distilled and quadruple-filtered making for a very smooth finish on this English import. To find out more about Three Olives, look them up on the web at www.threeolives.com.
So, what can we do with a twist on an old favorite? How about the ever popular Cosmopolitan? It made a come back during the 90’s with Sex in the City. But that isn’t where it had its start. Its history is somewhat unclear with credit being taken by a bartender from South Florida in the middle 80’s who claimed to create the Cosmo for those drinkers who wanted to look cool holding a martini glass while drinking, but didn’t care for the martini drink. Next in line for taking credit is a bartender out of Manhattan who shook things up a bit in the cocktail shaker in the later 80’s which is something closer to what the Cosmo is today. A slightly different version to this shortened tale is that the Cosmo actually had its birth in 1975 by an entirely different hand behind the bar in MinneapolisPomegranate Cosmopolitan
2 oz Three Olives Pomegranate Vodka1 oz PAMA Pomegranate Liqueur
½ oz Cointreau
Juice from ½ of a fresh lime
Lime twist for garnish
Fill a cocktail shaker 1/3 full of ice. Add vodka, liqueurs, and lime juice. Shake until well chilled. This takes approximately ten to fifteen seconds. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with the lime twist.
If you are interested in sugared rimmers, Stirrings makes a variety of flavorful rimmers for your favorite cocktails. At last count they had twenty-one different flavors, two of which are pomegranate and cosmopolitan, either of which would go great with the above cocktail. Check them out at www.stirrings.com.
