So cherry blossom fever is in the air. What better way to celebrate the grandeur of spring than a nature-inspired, booze-laden beverage? Are you feeling me? After two of these cherry flavored cocktails my neighbor Cindy was not feeling much of anything. A third and she would’ve ended up in Mount Vernon with a tattoo of George Washington and an axe on her lumbar.
After our last “Name that Cocktail” post, the winner was…ROC with “Petal Pusher” and Jenn with “Breakfast” was a close runner-up. And what does ROC win? Well for now a hearty virtual handshake and pat on the back. So calling this a “Cherry Blossom” would be way too obvious. What do you think this cherry-liciousness should be called?
Here is how you mix it up:
- One ounce vodka
- One ounce St. Germain
- One ounce Tart Cherry Juice*
- One cap full Rose’s Lime Juice and/or a squeeze of fresh lime
- Two ounces “sparkling” water
- Ice
Mix first four ingredients together. Pour over ice and add sparkling water. Stir, Auntie Mame says shaking bruises the vodka.
Check out how to make the Tsumami-Kanzashi (Japanese fabric flowers pictured above) on Barista Kids as well as all of the cherry blossom happenings around Baristaville. Run Martta run!
The beautiful glassware was provided by Colorstoryhome in Montclair (soon moving to a new and improved location…my lips are sealed) I have to say I love working with smart, fun retailers like Barbara. Talent and joy.
Hand-decorated Number Glasses, designed by Christopher Jagmin, $22 each
Hand-blown Flared Glass Lidded Canister, $48 each
Cherries and cherry blossoms from The Garden Shop in Upper Montclair
*Tart Cherry Juice from Whole Foods
Pop the Cherry
The Shutdown
Fling Spring
Tres Cherry
Pink Wally
Cherry Gar Seeya
Cher-Noble
Royal Flush
Gypsy Rose
Pink Pajamas
I assume the winner will be announced at the Baristanet party in May? And that there’ll be plenty of the brew on hand?
Pond Scum
Bing Thing
Sakura
Commie Pinko.
A Cheracolic Rickey (In tribute to both cherries and to Cheracol, a beverage I once drank plenty of for a while.)
Walleroo, you truly have nothing better to do than to post multiple times on this one? Are you living on a trust fund?
The Flotsam….hitting the west coast in 2 years.
Cathar…..I think he’s been purloining the Vet checks out of your mailbox.
Hot Pink
Rose’s Cherry
We’re having a party? Great!
Cherry Picker
Ma Cherry Amour
Sunny and Cherry
Yeah, cathar, that took me like all day.
My eight year old neice: Cherry Bloom Bloom.
Suburbanite.
Pink Fizzy.
Spring Fling.
I have to go have a cocktail now.
The Cherry Springer Show.
Very Cherry.
Like ‘roo, I also have nothing better to do. So here goes.
Prunus No More
(Cherries are in the Genus Prunus)
For JG: CherryGurl
Cherry Kiss.
Tainted Cherry.
I’m done. I just found something better to do. (Like get drunk.)
Cherrylicious
Oh, I like CherryGurl.
This name I dedicate to Tudlow:
Prunus ethanolum.
Oh, I love it!
(You speak my language, Macropus robustus.)
Oh, talk dirty to me…
Oh ‘roo! Prunus Interruptus.
Pop the Cherry? Georgette… What were you thinking?
Georgette started it!
Sorry. That was in poor taste. I couldn’t help it. I had just eaten almost a pan full of brownies topped with chocolate ice cream. I was not myself.
Bada Bing.
Holly, this drink sounds delicious. I love St. Germain. It sounds potent, though.
Prunus syncope. (Cherry Blackout.)
Fleur De Cerisies
Red 40
Red Eye
Red Headed Stepchild
Red Stiletto
Bloody Bangher
Bloody Bomber
Yes I Can
Riddle me this Batman
The Branch Brook Spark
Rose Martini
Cerisovitz
Redrumka
Please pass the sweet and sour pork
Ruby Lips
The 28th
The Cure
Needle in Eye
In search of the Cure
In search of the cure of the idiot savant
Red wave
Savant Rouge
The Jacques Tart Tea….After 3 of these you’ll be doing French pratfalls.
The Puissant Tisan
Rosie the Riveter
Red Dragon
My Cherry Amour
Holly Hangover
No How You Doing
In the pink.
Cherry Tart
Pink Panther
My favorite flavor, cherry red. (you get what you need)
Dark Cherry HOT-Rod
Here’s one for you Sandy:
Cherry Bleary Boom
Chitty Cherry Bang Bloom
Thelma and Cerise
Mon Cherry
Cheritini.
The Red Threat.
…as prepared by your bartender, Ronnie R.
Cherry Bomb… but I dunno, kinda sounds like a cheap shot. This is more high class than that
Did the baristas ever pick a winning title for the alcoholic kool-aid above??
Break fluid
Paz-Still working on it……so many to choose from. I will probably post it on the next cocktail post in a couple weeks.
Tudlow-St. Germain is only 40 proof but of course the Vodka is 80 proof.
A couple of weeks? That’s great, Holly. I have 3209 more ideas to give you between now and then.
Ok Roo, I’m fixing myself “A Lawn Mower” and waiting…… idea #9 is?
Good to know, Holly. I’ll take 6, please.
Cha-cha Cherry.
Crimson Ride
Red Wings.