From A Voce restaurants’ Wine Director and Beverage Manager

It’s summer and we are carpooling less but we’re still working hard. The hubbies keep reminding us that it’s important to actually take this time to enjoy ourselves, do all the things we typically don’t have the time to do, and see the friends we’ve been rain-checking on for months. With summer halfway through, we’re finally making an effort to do so.

We can’t wait to show off some of our new furniture (yay for swapping out our old Ikea couch for a faaabulous one we’ve been eyeing for years at Moss!). To help us plan what we’ll serve at an upcoming summer soiré we’re going to be hosting, Olivier Flosse, Wine Director and Beverage Manager for A Voce restaurants, gave us some of his fave cocktail recipes.

Melone

Ingredients:

3 OZ MELON INFUSED VODKA

1 OZ LIMONCELLO

Instruction:

1. Mix all ingredients in shaker & serve in martini glass.

2. Garnish with watermelon slice.

Margarita in Fuoco

Ingredients:

1.5oz Tequila infused with peppers.

0.5oz Triple Sec

0.5oz lime juice

0.2oz simple syrup

Instruction:

1. Shake all the ingredient and pour in to rocks glass.

2. Garnish with salt rim, lime wedge, pepperoncini.

Platino

Ingredients:

1.5 OZ PINEAPPLE INFUSED VODKA

0.5 OZ CRÈME DE CASSIS

1 OZ LIME JUICE

1 OZ GINGER ALE

Instruction:

1. Shake vodka, crème de cassis, lime juice with ice and strain into martini glass.

2. Garnish with floating pineapple ring.

Dish with us: Do you do more at-home entertaining when the summer hits?