All entries to the 2025 Mandarine Napoléon Challenge

Citrine Dirge

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Corsican Breakfast

Based on Mandarin Napoléon and the love for mandarin oranges. Incorporating classic elements of a breakfast martini with fresh zesty mandarin and orange

AfterGlow

Afterglow opens with a bright harmony of orange and lime, led by the richness of Mandarine Napoleon. Don Julio Blanco brings a soft agave structure, while

My sweet mandarine

It also has, a bitter mandarin mermelade (1 big barspoon) and a pop corn foam floating

Amber Pearl

I wanted to create an elegant and busy cocktail that enhances the character or the orange tones, making the liqueur the perfect element to balance the

Thymós

-The dry red wine i used, instead of (Wine Red - Pinot Noir), was a Xinomavro. I used the Alpha Estate, Hedgehog Vineyard Xinomavro.

Napoleon's harvest

Mandarins ripen in autumn - just like the ingredients in this drink. Carrot, cinnamon, ginger, and lime echo the colors and flavors of the harvest season.

The Elba Escape

The recipe tastes also really good when using 3 dashes of Bittermen's Elemakule Tiki bitters instead of Abbott's. Furthermore, it is also possible to

Porto Impérial

The crushed ice is very important, as it will give the Porto a flowing effect. Very cold glass. If you don't like rum, reduce the quantity by 1 or 1.5

Le Jardin Impérial

This cocktail is a memory of greatness that never came to be. Bright as ambition, sweet as a promise, with a trace of bitterness - like everything left

Marguerite Ancienne/Ancient Daisy

My starting point was to try and create a mellower, slightly softer, yet distinctly different variation on a Margarita using Mandarine Napoleon as the

Amber Reign

Based on the classic breakfast martini and my favourite cocktail the bamboo. but made in a more modern fashion and low abv. It's a moody and poetic cocktail

Snapped Up

I took inspiration from a ginger snap cookie and tried to make it into a drink. The botanicals within the mandarin napoleon eccentuate the ginger portion

Napoleonic fashion

Made for the Mandarine Napoleon competition 2025, Inspired by heated cognac and an old fashioned

The Imperial Prescription

Inspired by the bittersweet saga of Napoleon's final days on the island of Saint Helena, this cocktail reimagines exile as paradise. Mandarine Napoléon-born

Catalan Cobbler

Inspired by the beautiful Catalan Atlas, described as 'the zenith of medieval map-work'. Created in 1370's Majorca, it artistically and accurately depicted