Contemporary New Orleans cocktails
Contemporary New Orleans cocktails

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Contemporary New Orleans cocktails

New Orleans has a long history as a cocktail city which continues to this day with cocktails created by some of the world's best bartenders at equally famous bars such as Cure, Jewel of the South and Beachbum Berry's Latitude 29. Some modern-day cocktails to emerge from New Orleans are less noteworthy - Hand Granade anyone?
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Adelaide Swizzle

A slightly pink, dry, spicy long drink with rum and a hint of cloves and lime.
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Alcatraz

Dry and lightly bitter, this tequila-based sipper makes for a great apéritif cocktail.
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Bywater

This spirit-forward, herbal and bitter-sweet cocktail was originally served without ice but dilution tames its fire to appeal to a wider audience as an
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Creole Cocktail No. 2

A whiskey-laced, spirit-forward herbal digestivo.
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Gustings' Grasshopper

Indulgent, minty, creamy, chocolate-laced with cognac. What's not to like?
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Hand Grenade

A blend of white spirits sweetened and melon flavoured by the addition of green-coloured melon liqueur.
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Hurricane

A strong, tangy, refreshing drink packed with fruit and laced with rum.
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Hurricane (by Chris McMillian)

A veritable tropical fruit salad laced with rum.
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Hurricane (original recipe)

The flavour of the syrup predominates.
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Juan & Jeanne

Tequila-based with sour citrus balanced by the rich red wine-like berry flavours of cassis.
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Katrina Cocktail

Spicy, fruity tequila served in a style synonymous with the Crescent City - full on!
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Jean Lafitte Cocktail

Not dissimilar to spicy, fortified advocaat. Yumm!
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1920 Cocktail

A rye whiskey's spirituous spice adds backbone to what is essentially a Perfect Manhattan with orange bitters in place of aromatic bitters and garnished
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Orléans

There's a pleasingly bittersweet cola bite to this spirit-forward aperitivo/digestivo.
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USS Wondrich

A tiki-inspired riff on the classic Adonis with chocolate orange liqueur. (If a touch too rich for your palate, then split the sherry to equal parts fino
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