Epicure
Fall Cocktail Recipes
Them Apples
BY JACQUES BEZUIDENHOUT
1½oz Partida Blanco
¾oz St-Germain
½oz lemon juice
Top with hard apple cider (i.e. Stella Cidre
or cider on tap)
Build ingredients in a highball glass with
ice, finish with cider. Stir.
Garnish with apple or lemon slices.
because flavors like apple, pear, cider and
baking spice blend so nicely with aged spirits
like Anejo Tequila, Whisky and Cognac. You can
still have fun with other spirits like unaged
Tequila, but now is the time that brown spirits
really shine.”
Anejo (aged 18 months) and Elegante Extra
Anejo (aged 40 months). The aged Tequilas in
the Partida line are rested in one-pass Jack
Daniels American oak barrels, imparting a pure,
deep, complex flavor that is clean and full
bodied.
Partida Tequila is made from 100% blue agave in
the heart of Mexico’s Tequila Valley. With four
exquisite marques, Partida’s line consists of
Blanco (unaged), Reposado (aged six months),
Here are three delicious options incorporating
the fine flavors of fall with award-winning
Partida Tequila.
Autumn Woods
BY MIKE RYAN, SABLE KITCHEN & BAR, CHICAGO
2oz Partida Reposado
⅛oz Partida 100%
organic agave nectar
3 sage leaves
3 dashes Regan’s Orange Bitters
In first glass, rinse with walnut liqueur and
fill with crushed ice.
In second glass, muddle sage. Add in all
ingredients, stir with ice.
Toss out ice in first glass and strain
ingredients from second glass into it.
Garnish with a sage leaf.
Partida Pumpkin Margarita
COURTESY OF
CREMA RESTAURANT, NY
2oz Partida Reposado
1oz fresh lime/lemon juice mix
splash of pumpkin puree
sesame seeds
lime wedge
Rim a cocktail glass with lime juice and
sesame seeds. Mix ingredients in a shaker
with ice and shake well. Stir into cocktail
glass. Garnish with a lime wedge.
IMAGE FROM ONEMARTINI.COM
Wave goodbye to summer and get ready for the
flavors of fall! As we go from flip flops to flats
and boots, it’s time to relish the countless
ingredients available to use in cocktails and
cooking. Save the berry drinks for next summer;
now’s the time to enjoy such favorites as
apples, cinnamon, figs, pumpkin and pear.
According to Partida Tequila’s Bartender
Ambassador Jacques Bezuidenhout, fall is a
time for experimenting with cocktail flavors.
“Fall is one of my favorite cocktail seasons,
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