UK Cigar Scene Magazine December Issue 12 | Page 8

Festive & Anniversary Cocktails
from Hunters & Frankau
Back on a warm June evening in Belgrave Sq Hunters & Frankau and
their friends gathered for a spectacular party to celebrate the
225th Anniversary of the company which was founded in 1790.
To help the celebration go with a swing the Hunters team got together
with some of London’s finest cigar bars and their cocktail teams to create
five amazing cocktails each of which would be perfect to pair with the
Ramon Allones Anniversario 225 cigar. Each one was named after a location
important in the history of the company.
We have decided that, as the Anniversary year comes to an end, and to give our readers both a challenge
and pleasure over the Festive Season, we would publish the details of the cocktails together with the
detailed ingredients and instructions for each cocktail which have been kindly given to us by the
cocktail experts who created them.
So what we have here is really half a list of cocktail recipes and half a history lesson.
We trust that you will enjoy them over the festive season with a good Cuban cigar.

St Mary Axe
Created by Joel Harrison & Neil Ridley (authors of ‘Distilled’)
No 55 St Mary Axe in the City of London was
Hunter’s address for seventy-four years from
1867 to 1941. The street attracted so many cigar
importers that in the 920’s it became known as
London’s “Wall Street of Havana Cigars”. Today
it is distinguished by the city’s only cigar-shaped
building popularly known as the “Gherkin”

Ingredients;
30ml measure of VSOP Hine Cognac
10ml measure of maple syrup
20ml measure of quality apple juice
2 dashes of Chocolate bitters.
Shake this in a shaker with ice, then add to a flute
and top up with Champagne.
Garnish with lemon peel.

The Virtudes Created by The Churchill Bar, (Portman Square)

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No 609 Virtudes Street in Havana was the location
of the H Upmann factory in Havana in 1937 when
it was sold by DG Freeman, Chairman of J Frankau
& Co to Menendez, Garcia y Cia.

Directions

Ingredients;

Shake well.

350ml Vestal Vodka 25ml Cointreau
25ml fresh lime juice 25ml Chai syrup
2 raspberries
2 blueberries
1 blackberry

Then double strain in the martini glass.

Muddle the berries in the shaker and you add the
rest of the ingredients with ice.

Put on a pick one of each berry to garnish on the
rim