Recipe

Combine the honey syrup and the calvados in a shaker filled with ice.
Shake and strain into a martini glass.
Top with La Chouette cider chilled and mix gently.

• La Chouette
  7,5 cl
• Calvados
  1,5 cl
• Honey syrup
  1 cl

Comment

Victor Hugo (France):
“The Mont-Saint-Michel appears (…) like a sublime thing, a marvellous pyramid”.

Recipe

Combine all the ingredients but the cider in a shaker filled with ice.
Shake and pour into an old-fashioned glass.
Top with La Chouette cider and mix gently.

• La Chouette
  7 cl
• Grand Marnier
  2 cl
• Dark rum
  2 cl
• Amaretto
  1 cl

Anecdote

This local cocktail will certainly surprise you! It is inspired by some of the most renowned French privateers from the Mont-Saint-Michel Bay (Surcouf “The king of corsairs”; Pléville Le Pelley “The peg-leg corsair”).

Recipe

Pour the vodka in a tumbler glass filled with ice.
Top with La Chouette cider.

• La Chouette
  15 cl
• Vodka
  3 cl

Comment

Jack, Texas (USA):
“I can’t remember when we stopped drinkin’ the Drunken Owl last nite…”

Recipe

Pour the crème de cassis* in a champagne glass.
Pour the calvados.
Top with La Chouette cider chilled and mix gently.

* The crème de cassis (blackcurrant) may be replaced by crème de mûre (blackberry), crème de myrtille (blueberry) or crème de framboise (raspberry).

• La Chouette
  10 cl
• Calvados
  1,5 cl
• Crème de
  cassis*
  1,5 cl

Anecdote

Félix Kir, a French priest and a politician, gave his name to this drink. Legend has it, that whenever he travelled to Paris as a member of parliament, he would offer a glass of Kir to his fellow travellers.

Recipe

Wash and cut an orange into pieces.
Combine all ingredients in a sauce pan.
Simmer over low heat for 10 minutes.
Pour and strain.

* 1/8 tablespoon of nutmeg.

• La Chouette
  1 L
• Cloves
  5
• Star anise
  2
• Nutmeg*
• Cinnamon
  2 sticks
• Orange
  1/2

Advice

Advice from “Secret Ingredient”:
Ground star anise for stronger flavour.
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