Cocktail Day is all about celebrating with friends and so this vodka is a great choice as \u2018tovaritch\u2019 means \u2018friend\u2019 in Russian. Despite its Russian name heritage, rest assured, with this lovely liquid you\u2019re drinking a spirit that is 100% European. TOVARITCH! Vodka is made from traceable European wheat, is distilled five times, and filtered 10 times, before being bottled in Latvia, part of the EU.<\/p>\n
It is a recreation of a recently rediscovered 200-year-old family recipe and this vodka is so smooth that you can even drink it neat. It\u2019s for this reason that drinks experts around the world have conferred a total of 145 awards on this spirit.<\/p>\n
This Cocktail Day, we bring you some outstanding recipes to make the evening go beautifully. Both cocktails involve \u2018muddling\u2019 fresh ingredients, so they taste fresh and look appealing.<\/p>\n
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TOVARITCH! Blackberry Basil Smash<\/h4>\n
A refreshing and elegant drink that makes the most of this fine vodka.<\/p>\n
Ingredients<\/strong><\/p>\n 5-6 Blackberries (fresh, or frozen and then defrosted) Method<\/strong><\/p>\n Muddle the blackberries and basil in a shaker. Half fill the shaker with ice. Add the vodka, lemon juice and syrup and shake until chilled. Add fresh ice to a rocks glass. Strain the liquid into the glass. Garnish with a sprig of basil and a fresh blackberry, if desired.<\/p>\n This refreshing drink tastes as delicious as it looks.<\/p>\n Ingredients<\/strong><\/p>\n Cucumber \u2013 a few slices Method<\/strong><\/p>\n Muddle a few slices of cucumber and a few mint leaves in a shaker. Half fill the shaker with ice and add the TOVARITCH! Vodka, lime juice and sugar syrup. Shake until chilled. Fill a highball glass with crushed ice. Strain the cocktail into the glass and top with soda to taste. Garnish with a mint sprig and cucumber slices.<\/p>\n You can find TOVARITCH! Premium Vodka (ABV 37.5%) at good drinks retailers including Amathus Drinks (RRP \u00a323-25). Look out for the elegant bottle with a blue label proudly declaring that it is made in Latvia and that it is \u2018The World\u2019s Most Awarded\u2019.<\/p>\n Embrace the spirit. Happy Cocktail Day.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Vodka Celebrates Cocktail Day. A Monday isn\u2019t usually the day of the week chosen for a celebration involving cocktails, yet on Monday 13 May it\u2019s Cocktail Day. This provides the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21678,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3480,3482],"tags":[2905,3916,2975,4204,2446],"class_list":["post-20973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cocktail-recipes","category-drink","tag-cocktail","tag-cocktail-day","tag-recipe","tag-tovaritch","tag-vodka"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mostlyfood.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mostlyfood.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mostlyfood.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mostlyfood.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mostlyfood.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20973"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.mostlyfood.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27397,"href":"https:\/\/www.mostlyfood.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20973\/revisions\/27397"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mostlyfood.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mostlyfood.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mostlyfood.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mostlyfood.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n2-3 Basil leaves
\n60ml TOVARITCH! Vodka
\n25ml Lemon juice
\n25ml Simple syrup
\nGarnish: sprig of basil plus a fresh blackberry<\/p>\nTOVARITCH! Cucumber Mint Cooler
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\nMint leaves \u2013 a few
\n60ml TOVARITCH! Vodka
\n30ml Lime juice (freshly squeezed)
\n25ml Simple syrup
\nSoda
\nGarnish: mint sprig and cucumber slices<\/p>\n