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Marie Lucie

The origin of this cocktail comes from my family Christmas dinners, when my grandmother (Marie Lucie) hid the imperial mandarin under the table to prevent

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The Forbidden Kiss

Refreshing, citrus, spicy, sweet, smoky. The flavor reminiscents of autumn spices, vegetables and fruits, but provides freshness at the same time.

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Sunrise around the world

At first, I tried the combination of sake with mandarin liqueur, then added lemon juice and Italicus to create a drink enjoyable on a beach while watching

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Luna Naranja

I wanted a more complex, nuanced orange creamsicle-inspired drink, and between the roasty agave notes of the tequila and the citrusy spice of the Mandarine

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Orange Vinyl

I started with Mezcal and Tequila as a base since those are my two hard liquors of choice. Then of course, the obligatory addition of freshly squeezed

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Death in Paradise

Used Tarquins gin, so suggest a cirtrus forward gin as the base.

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Orange Hours

You can take any Armagnac you like, I love a VS but if you want more wood I say go for it !

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Napoleon's Folly

I've used Mandarine Napoleon for years to make soufflés and recently tried a variation of a chocolate soufflé with a Mandarine Napoleon creme anglaise.

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5.5 Sour

Si vous n'aimez pas trop les cocktails sucré, n'hésitez pas à ajouter quelques dash de bitter à l'orange afin de contrebalancer le côté sucré avec

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Count of Corsica

Zesty , sweet , rich with underlying nuttiness For those not wanting to use egg white a few dashes of foaming bitters will do the trick

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Aigre -Doux

Perfect for parring with an Gà xào chua ngọt (vietnamese sweet and sour fried chicken)

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White mandarin

Looked at recipes of sweets that contained tangerine to find out what flavours went together, then had fun trying different cocktails till I found the

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Brazilian Sunset

Add all ingredients to shaker Dry shake Wet Shake Double Strain into a rocks glass with a large cube

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Napoleon Xpress

A journey between citrus, strength but with a nice fruity roundness.

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Exile on Elba

Napoleon was exiled to the island of Elba. After doing my research on what ingredients grow on the island, I did some experiments with them and came with

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The Last Ditch

The basic principle is to make Mandarine Napoléon as the central core flavour. Then, satellites like coco rum liquor and black cold tea come on the floor

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