PH factor:  9.0 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 2 ounces Grey Goose vodka o 1 ounce light Crème de Cacao o ½ ounce Luxardo maraschino o 3 drops rose water Garnish o 1 Turkish Delight candy Method: 1. Shake cocktail ingredients over ice. 2. Strain into a martini glass. 3. Garnish with a piece of Turkish Delight candy. Remarks: As complex and interesting as the rose flavored candy that inspired it. . . .

PH factor:  8.0 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o ¼ ounce Pernod Absinthe Supérieure o 2 ounces Finlandia vodka o 1 ounce Lillet Blanc o ½ ounce Luxardo maraschino o 1 dash Hella Orange bitters Garnish o lemon peel Method: 1. Swirl absinthe to coat the inside of a martini glass and discard the excess. 2. Stir remaining cocktail ingredients over ice in a mixing glass. 3. Strain into the prepared glass. 4. Garnish with lemon peel. Remarks: It's ve

PH factor:  10 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o chocolate syrup o 2 ounces Finlandia vodka o 2 ounces Godiva Chocolate liqueur o 1 ounce dark Crème de Cacao o ½ ounce Chambord o 1 ½ ounces cream Garnish o chocolate curls and/or a raspberry Method: 1. Drizzle chocolate syrup on inside of the glass. 2. Shake remaining cocktail ingredients over ice. 3. Serve up in the prepared glass. 4. Garnish with chocolate curls and/or a raspberry. Remarks: Thi

PH factor:  9.0 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o ½ ounce Finlandia vodka o 1 ounce Godiva Chocolate liqueur o ½ ounce Godiva White Chocolate liqueur Garnish o 3 rose petals o 1 chocolate covered strawberry Method: 1. Shake cocktail ingredients over ice. 2. Serve up in a martini glass. 3. Garnish with a chocolate covered strawberry and rose petals. Remarks: This a delicious chocolatey start to your Valentine’s Day celebrations. The strawberry with its deep

PH factor:  10 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 3 ounces Bombay Sapphire gin o 2 ounces Finlandia vodka o 1 ounce Lillet Blanc Garnish o lemon twist Method: 1. Stir cocktail ingredients over ice in a mixing glass. 2. Serve up in a martini glass. 3. Garnish with lemon twist. Remarks: Ian Fleming, in his 1953 novel Casino Royale, has James Bond create this drink and name it after the romantic lead of the novel, Vesper Lynd. We rated the Vesper a 10 pur

PH factor:  10 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 3 ounces Finlandia vodka o ½ ounce Rose’s Sweetened Lime Juice Garnish o lime wedge Method: 1. Add ice and Rose’s Sweetened Lime Juice to an Old Fashioned glass. 2. Swirl it to coat the ice and glass and pour off the excess. 3. Add vodka. 4. Lightly rim the glass with a lime wedge. Squeeze the wedge over the drink and drop it in as a garnish. Remarks: This recipe arose from decades of research and development

PH factor:  8.0 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 1 ½ ounces Finlandia vodka o 1 ounce white Crème de Menthe Method: 1. Stir cocktail ingredients over ice in a mixing glass. 2. Serve up in a cocktail glass. Remarks: “Another vodka stinger. I’ll drink to that!” Thank you, Mr. Sondheim, for everything. . . .

PH factor:  8.5 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 3 ounces Finlandia vodka o 2 ounces cranberry juice o 1 ounce pineapple juice Garnish o Tillen Farms Merry Maraschino cherry o pineapple spear Method: 1. Shake over ice. 2. Strain into an ice-filled collins glass. 3. Garnish with a cherry and pineapple spear. Remarks: Not all bays and not all Bay Breezes are created equal. This is ours. Enjoy. . . .

PH factor:  10 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o sugar o salt o 2 ounces Finlandia vodka o 4 ounces watermelon juice o 1 ounce fresh lime juice o 1 ounce Simple Syrup (see: Syrups etc.) Garnish o wedge of watermelon Method: 1. Moisten the rim of a martini glass and invert it into a shallow dish containing a mixture of salt and sugar to coat the rim of the glass. 2. Cube and remove the seeds from enough fresh watermelon to yield 2 cups. 3. Liquify fruit

PH factor:  9.5 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 6 large wild blueberries or 2 bar spoons of blueberry jam o 6 mint leaves o ½ teaspoon grated ginger o 1 ¼ ounce Finlandia vodka o ¼ ounce Pernod Absinthe Supérieure o 3 teaspoons lemon juice o 1 tablespoon Honey Syrup (see: Syrups etc.) o 1 dash of almond extract or to taste o 2 ounces Fever-Tree Premium Ginger Beer Garnish o mint sprig Method: 1. Muddle ginger and berries or preserves with mint leaves in

PH factor:  8.5 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 2 ounces Finlandia vodka o 1 ounce Kahlúa o 1 ounce cream Method: 1. Combine spirits in an ice-filled Old Fashioned glass. 2. Add cream and let settle. Remarks: We felt this was remarkably like its black sibling. The idea of a blindfold taste test occurred to us but was abandoned due to the difficulty inherent in making cocktails while blindfolded. . . .

PH factor:  9.0 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 1 ounce Finlandia vodka o 1 ½ ounces Godiva White Chocolate liqueur o 2 ounces cream Method: 1. Shake over ice. 2. Serve up in chilled martini glass. Remarks: This cocktail poses a question that has mystified mankind for millennia, "Is this a cocktail or a martini or a milkshake in a very fancy glass?" . . .

PH factor:  9.0 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 4 mint leaves o 3 ounces Grey Goose vodka o ¾ ounce fresh lime juice o ¾ ounce orgeat syrup Garnish o mint sprig Method: 1. Muddle 4 mint leaves in a cocktail shaker. 2. Add ice and remaining cocktail ingredients and shake to chill. 3. Fine strain into a martini glass. 4. Garnish with a mint sprig. Remarks: Note: The original recipe used Zubrowka Bison Grass vodka. We tested that vodka in other recipes