PH factor:  9.0 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 2 ounces Flor de Caña Extra Seco rum o 1 ounce Plum Gekkeikan wine o ½ ounce fresh lemon juice o 1 splash grenadine o 1 pinch sea salt o 1 teaspoon loose leaf black tea Garnish o lemon twist Method: 1. Shake cocktail ingredients over ice. 2. Strain into a cocktail glass. 3. Garnish with lemon twist. Remarks: The Japanese word kawahori which means mosquito eater is also the root of koumori or bat. T

PH factor:  8.5 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 3 ounces Grey Goose vodka o 1 ½ ounces Plum Gekkeikan wine o 1 ounce fresh lemon juice o ½ ounce Ginger Syrup, see: Syrups etc. o 2 ounces Fever-Tree Premium Club Soda Garnish o lemon twist Method: 1. Shake cocktail ingredients except soda over ice. 2. Strain into an ice-filled collins glass. 3. Top with soda and stir once to combine. 4. Garnish with lemon twist. Remarks: Despite the name, this tal

PH factor:  9.0 Recipe Ingredients:       Cocktail     o 1 ½ ounces Heaven’s Door Straight Rye whiskey o 1 ½ ounces Plum Gekkeikan wine o ½ ounce Campari Garnish o orange twist Method: 1. Stir over cracked ice in a mixing glass. 2. Strain into an ice-filled Old Fashioned glass. 3. Garnish with orange twist. Remarks: We feature nearly forty cocktails made with Campari. It is safe to say that Campari is the defining element in all of them. It is here as well.

PH factor:  9.5 Recipe Ingredients:       Cocktail o 2 ounces Bombay Sapphire gin o 1 ounce Plum Gekkeikan wine o 1 ounce Fever-Tree Premium Club Soda o 1 dash The Cocktail Experiment Lavender Bitters Garnish o black plum slice Method: 1. Stir cocktail ingredients over ice in a mixing glass. 2. Strain into martini glass. 3. Garnish with a slice of plum. Remarks: If you want a cocktail that is easy to make and yet tastes unlike any cocktail you’ve ever ha

PH factor:  9.0 Recipe Ingredients:       Cocktail o 1 ½ ounces Bombay gin o 1 ounce Plum Gekkeikan wine o ½ ounce St. Germain o 3 ounces Fever-Tree Premium Club Soda Garnish o rosemary sprig o thin plum slice Method: 1. Shake cocktail ingredients except soda over ice. 2. Serve over ice in a collins glass. 3. Top with soda. 4. Garnish with rosemary and plum slices. Remarks: This is a refreshing and tasty cocktail. When should one drink it, you ask?

PH factor:  9.5 Recipe Ingredients:       Cocktail o 5 leaves of Thai basil or 3 leaves of Italian basil and 3 sprigs cilantro o 1 ½ ounces Bombay gin o 1 ½ ounces Plum Gekkeikan wine o ¼ ounce Chartreuse (green) o ½ ounce fresh lime juice o 1 pinch of ground fennel Garnish o lime twist Method: 1. Lightly muddle herbs in a shaker. 2. Add ice and remaining cocktail ingredients. 3. Shake to chill. 4. Fine strain into a martini glass. 5. Garni

PH factor:  9.5 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail       o salt o 1 wedge of fresh plum o 1 ½ ounces 1800 Silver tequila o ½ ounce Cointreau o ¾ ounce Plum Gekkeikan wine o ½ ounce fresh lime juice Garnish o lime wedge Method: 1. Moisten the rim of an Old Fashioned glass and invert it into a shallow dish of salt to coat the rim of the glass. 2. Add ice to the glass and set aside. 3. Muddle plum in cocktail shaker. 4. Add ice and remaining cocktail in

PH factor:  9.0 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o sugar o 2 ounces Grey Goose vodka o 1 ½ ounces Plum Gekkeikan wine o ½ ounce St. Germain liqueur Garnish o 1 cracked almond Method: 1. Moisten the rim of a martini glass and invert it into a shallow dish of sugar to coat the rim of the glass. 2. Stir remaining cocktail ingredients over ice in a mixing glass. 3. Strain into the prepared glass. 4. Garnish with a cracked almond. Comments: This is a fun

PH factor:  8.0 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 2 ounces Tullamore D.E.W. Irish whiskey o 1 ounce Plum Gekkeikan wine o ½ ounce Lazzaroni maraschino o 1 dash Hella Smoked Chili bitters or to taste Garnish o 3 Tillen Farms Bada Bing cherries Method: 1. Stir cocktail ingredients over ice in a mixing glass. 2. Serve up in a cocktail glass. 3. Garnish with cherries. Remarks: This starts out a little sweet and finishes with a smoky heat. . . .

PH factor:  9.0 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 1 ½ ounces Hennessy VS cognac o 1 ounce Plum Gekkeikan wine o ½ ounce St. Germain liqueur o ½ ounce fresh lemon juice Garnish o lemon wheel or plum slice Method: 1. Shake cocktail ingredients over ice. 2. Strain into an ice-filled Old Fashioned glass. 3. Garnish with plum slice or lemon wheel. Remarks: You may not have a veranda overlooking a lake, neither do we, but if you have a nice place to sit and an

PH factor:  8.5 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 1 wedge of a pitted plum o 2 thyme sprigs o 1 ounce Plum Gekkeikan wine o ½ ounce fresh lemon juice o champagne Garnish o plum slices o thyme sprig Method: 1. Muddle plum and thyme in a cocktail shaker until your arm gets tired. 2. Add ice, plum wine, and lemon juice and shake to chill completely. 3. Fine strain into an ice-filled cocktail glass. 4. Top with champagne. 5. Garnish with additional