8 Armagnac Cocktails Putting A Twist On France’s Oldest Eau De Vie
Armagnac producers are betting that cocktails will help the world rediscover France’s oldest eau de vie. Here are some Armagnac cocktail suggestions ranging from classic to complex to inspire your inner bartender.
Pellehaut Armagnac Mojito
Ingredients
2 cl Armagnac VS - The Ice Age Château de Pellehaut
2 cl Blanche d’Armagnac Château de Pellehaut
2 cl cane sugar syrup
Lemon
Fresh mint
Sparkling water
Crushed ice
Instructions
Place the mint leaves and lemon wedges in a glass. Add the simple syrup. Crush the mixture into the glass with a special cocktail pestle. Add the crushed ice, then the Blanche Armagnac and Armagnac VS - Ice Age. Complete with sparkling water. Mix the cocktail so that the flavors blend. Serve the mojito with two straws to mix the cocktail as the tasting progresses.
Uvanona
Ingredients
2 bsp butternut and pickled-beetroot brine cordial
2 dashes camomille bitter
1 cl Poire Manguin 47%
4cl Jean Cavé l’Experience 55% Blanche Armagnac
Fleurs Électriques
Ingredients
1.5 cl lemon juice
1.5 cl citrus & ginger syrup
2cl sake
2cl Jean Cavé 64% Blanche Armagnac
1 electric bitter
Granny's Fog
Ingredients
2cl lemon juice
5cl Jean Cavé 40% Blanche Armagnac
Lapsang Souchong and Aloe Sparkling Ice Tea
Jumping Jack
Ingredients
Ice
Garnish - 2 Dehydrated orange wheels
45ml Chateau de Bordeneuve Blanche
30ml Lemon juice
21ml Honey Water
21ml Punt E Mes Sweet Vermouth
Shake & Double Strain
Mirasol
Ingredients
40 ml Blanche d’Armagnac 64%
20 ml Fresh lime juice
10 ml simple syrup
Timut pepper
Top Tonic
Instructions
Pour all the ingredients into a shaker, with 4 pepper mill rounds of Timut pepper.
Shake vigorously for 8 seconds and double-strain.
Serve in a tumbler filled with ice cubes, top with the Tonic, and 2 pepper mill rounds of Timut pepper.
Brandelet says: “In this cocktail, the power of the Blanche d’Armagnac à 64% is softened by the other ingredients but still keeps all of its aromatics. The Timut pepper brings some freshness and notes of grapefruit. The tonic completes the dilution and brings a little bitterness. This refreshing cocktail is especially fit to be enjoyed during hot summer days.”
Tiki Lili
Ingredients
30 ml Blanche d’Armagnac 43.2%
30 ml Armagnac 43.4%
45 ml Home-made coconut cream
25 ml Liqueur Banane du Brésil
15 ml Eggwhite syrup
Instructions
Pour all the ingredients into a shaker and shake vigorously for 10 seconds.
Remove the ice and shake again (dry shake)
Serve in a Tiki Mug filled with ice cubes, and decorate with the garnish of your choice.
Brandelet says: “This cocktail is rich and light. The aromatics of the two Armagnacs are present in the cocktail. The floral aspect of the Blanche d’Armagnac pairs very well with the sharpness of the wood in the young Armagnac. Associated with the other ingredients, this still remains a tiki cocktail, which is the most interesting thing about this cocktail: It strays from the conventional image we have of Armagnac and breaks this idea that it’s an old spirit that should only be enjoyed as an after-dinner liqueur.”
Haut Hex Girlfriend
Ingredients
1.25 oz Chateau d’Arton Armagnac Fine Blanche
0.75 oz orange-cranberry tea-infused Luxardo Bitter Bianco
1 oz aloe vera-infused Lustau Vermut Bianco
10 drops mosaic hop tincture
Combine in a mixing glass and stir over ice for roughly 15 revolutions.
INGREDIENT RECIPE:
Mosaic hop tincture
6 mosaic hop pellets
375 mL high-proof neutral grain spirit
infuse until dissolved (~4 hrs); coffee filter-strain
Orange-cranberry tea-infused Luxardo Bitter Bianco
40 g Harbor Leaf orange-cranberry tea
750 mL Luxardo Bitter Bianco
infuse 30 min; cloth strain
Aloe vera-infused Lustau Vermut Bianco
2 oz fresh aloe gel (cut from leaf)
750 mL Lustau Vermut Bianco
shake to combine; cloth strain