Bastille Cup

By / Photography By | July 15, 2014

Ingredients

SERVINGS: Makes 1 cocktail.
  • 2 ounces Pineau des Charentes
  • 1½ ounces fresh watermelon water*
  • ¼ ounce freshly squeezed lime juice
  • ¼ ounce Luxardo Maraschino Liqueur
  • 1 pineapple leaf (optional)
  • Coffee beans (optional)

Instructions

Add all ingredients to a cocktail shaker and shake with ice. Strain over ice-filled Collins glass. Garnish with pineapple leaf and coffee beans (optional).

* Watermelon water is simply the strained juice of a watermelon. To make it, muddle the watermelon and strain it.

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Ingredients

SERVINGS: Makes 1 cocktail.
  • 2 ounces Pineau des Charentes
  • 1½ ounces fresh watermelon water*
  • ¼ ounce freshly squeezed lime juice
  • ¼ ounce Luxardo Maraschino Liqueur
  • 1 pineapple leaf (optional)
  • Coffee beans (optional)

Find it

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New Orleans, LA 70112
504-523-5433