Food & Drink
This Ultra-Refined Cocktail Requires Only Three Easy-to-Find Ingredients
The perfect party starter – featuring The Glenlivet Founder’s Reserve – for New Year’s with the girls.
Created by ELLE for
Nesrine Brikci-Nigassa
When it’s The Glenlivet you’re pouring, single malt whisky is made for more than just sipping and savouring. For this series, we tapped Rose Simard, ELLE’s Montreal-based resident mixologist, to create three exclusive single malt cocktails using The Glenlivet’s multi-faceted collection of spirits. Follow her ingenious (and easy-to-follow) recipes, and then drink up the good times.
However your NYE plans pan out – a dressed-up affair for just you and your bestie, perhaps, or a DJed Zoom gathering with 25 of your nearest and dearest – stir up a Blossom, a chic aperitif that gets all its elegance (and celebratory character) from three perfect ingredients: The Glenlivet Founder’s Reserve, elderflower liqueur and a couple of dashes of Angostura bitters. “My goal was to enhance the lovely pear and green-apple notes in the Scotch,” says Simard of the spirit’s fruit-forward palate.
The Blossom
2 oz The Glenlivet Founder’s Reserve
0.75 oz elderflower liqueur
2 dashes of Angostura bitter
1.Pour all three ingredients into a mixing glass filled with ice.
2.Stir to chill and slightly dilute.
3.Strain into a chilled coupette.
4.Twist a piece of grapefruit peel to release the oil over the cocktail, and then discard.
Please enjoy our products responsibly.
This isn’t your grandfather’s single malt.
The Glenlivet is a brand with a storied past that’s set on creating a progressive present – a move that’s making major waves in the world of whisky.
With a flavour profile and price range to suit every taste, there’s a Glenlivet for every brunch date, cottage weekend and festive celebration that’s on the agenda.
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