Party Cat

A fun, lively, and incredibly refreshing mezcal drink. Built to be a crowd-pleaser, it focuses heavily on bright, juicy citrus notes that cut right through the roasted agave, making it highly sessionable.

Ingredients:

  • 1 oz. mezcal

  • 1 oz. fresh grapefruit juice

  • ½ oz. simple syrup

  • 1 dash cardamom bitters

  • Sparkling wine, chilled

Instructions:

  • Combine all ingredients, except the sparkling wine, and stir with ice. Strain into a coupe and top with sparkling wine. Keil uses Scrappy’s bitters, but you can substitute a DIY version: Steep 1 Tbsp. of crushed cardamom in 8 oz. of high-proof neutral spirit for 10 days, strain and bottle.

Attribution:
Recipe: Chris Keil, Hilltop Kitchen, Tacoma, Washington
Photo: Stuart Mullenberg | February 16, 2016
Origin: Imbibe

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