Stargazer: A Chile Vodka Cocktail
Photo: Shawn Campbell
An easy-drinking refresher with a complex and vegetal finish.
This vodka cocktail, named after a bright and fragrant lily hybrid, will please cocktail drinkers of all tastes. “You’re greeted right away with citrus and cucumber up front,” says the drink’s creator, Jake Powell of Death & Company in Denver. “But as you keep drinking it, the complexities from the gentian amaro and vegetal green chile start to reveal themselves.”
Ingredients
- 1 oz. vodka
- 1/4 oz. St. George Green Chile Vodka
- 1/4 oz. Midori
- 1/2 oz. Suze
- 3/4 oz. fresh lime juice
- 3/4 oz. cucumber syrup
- Seltzer, to top
- Tools:shaker, strainer
- Glass:Collins
- Garnish:cucumber ribbon
Preparation
Combine all of the ingredients except the seltzer in an ice-filled shaker, shake, then strain into a Collins glass over ice. Top with seltzer and garnish.
Cucumber SyrupJuice 2-3 cucumbers for 1 cup of juice. Blend with 1 cup of white sugar. Will keep for 1 week in the refrigerator.