Memorial Day Cocktails Via the Italians! Try these Recipes!

Here’s a short curated collection of cocktails featuring some Italian liquors and liqueurs. These will be really interesting and fun to mix up for Memorial Day cocktails!

 

 

Georgia Peach Martini- 2 SERVINGS

Ingredients:

3 ounces Skyy Vodka (or preferred)

1.5 ounces peach liqueur ( Pallino Peach liqueur

1 cup peach slices (Fresh and  peeled)

1/2 cup crushed ice

1/4 cup raspberries

3 tablespoons cranberry juice


Method: 

Muddle the peach slices into a shaker,
Add in the Pallino Peach liqueur and  your vodka of choice
Add ice into the shaker and shake about 30-40 seconds.
Add in the cranberry juice and stir
Pour over ice into a tall glass.
Add the raspberries as a garnish.

PEACH BOURBON TEA

Credit: Southern Living Magazine,  Antonis Achilleos; Prop Stylist: Kay E. Clarke; Food Stylist: Karen Rankin

INGREDIENTS:

1.5 oz Bourbon
.75 oz Pallini Peachcello 

.5 oz Fresh lemon juice

3 oz Unsweetened Iced tea

Garnish – Lemon Wheel.

Method:

  1. Build all ingredients over ice in a highball glass and stir gently.
  2. Garnish with a lemon

 

Looking for a cocktail that includes chocolate and nut flavors? Here’s the Mississippi  Mudtini..

The measurements are featured in the above  video.. so make sure you have some paper and a pen
(Or you are a very fast typist) to get this entire recipe. It’s going to be killer.
Use Nocello as the nut liqueur.

 

“The Monte Mule”

Ingredients:

2 Parts Amaro Montenegro 

2 Parts Ginger Beer

1 Part Lime Juice

Method: 
Mix all parts into a shaker with ice.
Shake for about 20-30 seconds,
Strain into a copper mug or into a highball glass with ice!

Southern Nocello Nights– Author: Mandy Landefeld

Ingredients

  • 2 oz Good Whiskey (I used Southern Rye Whiskey)
  • 1 oz Nocello Walnut Liqueur
  • 1/2 oz Amaro
  • 3 dashes Walnut Bitters (I used Fee Brothers)
  • 1 oz Lemon Juice (Freshly Squeezed)
  • 1/2 oz Simple Syrup

Instructions

  • Pour all ingredients into a cocktail shaker filled with ice.
    Shake vigorously,
    Strain into a glass with one oversized ice cube.

The array of cocktails in this  post is really different because I feel that the  Italian liquors and liqueurs have a unique presentation of the spirit and that it’s worth trying.. especially on a 3 day holiday weekend!

 

If you have tried any of these cocktail recipes, please let me know how you liked it. I am dying to test some of these out!

 

Stevie Wilson
LA-Story.com

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