Cocktails at Home: The Da Hong Pao Sour at Four Seasons Hong Kong’s Caprice Bar

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Cocktails at Home: The Da Hong Pao Sour at Four Seasons Hong Kong’s Caprice Bar


The neatest thing about arriving early to your desk at Four Season Hong Kong’s three-Michelin-star French restaurant Caprice is having fun with additional time to savor a drink on the adjoining Caprice Bar. One of the ten finest in Hong Kong for VIPs, the decadently darkish cocktail lounge serves beautiful drinks crafted by Lorenzo Antinori, Beverage Manager, Four Seasons Hotel Hong Kong, and Beverage Ambassador, Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts, Asia Pacific. 

Making Antinori’s extraordinary Da Hong Pao Sour at residence would require some stealthy substances gathering, because it encompasses a vodka distilled from winter wheat grown and milled in France that’s then infused with butter created from Da Hong Pao, a really particular Oolong tea present in the perfect Chinese tea homes. The method is unappetizingly known as “fat washing” however the result’s refreshing and delectably aromatic.

Da Hong Pao Sour

45 ml Tried & True vodka fat-washed with Oolong butter

20 ml Mancino Bianco vermouth

10 ml Orgeat

10 ml Fresh Pineapple Juice

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Method: Add substances to a shaker crammed with ice. Shake nicely. Strain right into a martini glass and garnish with a Nasturtium leaf. 

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Vicki Arkoff

Based in Los Angeles, Vicki Arkoff is a contributor for JustLuxe and an editor for Holiday Goddess, the web vacation spot for stylish girls vacationers from the editors of Vogue, Cosmopolitan, Grazia, Conde Nast Traveler, Lonely Planet, and BBC. She’s co-author of the bestselling Holiday Goddess books (HarperCollins and iTunes) together with ‘The Holiday Goddess Guide to Paris, London, New York, Rome’ which spent practically 10 months within the journey Top 10. Four metropolis guidebooks adopted and have been named ‘books of the month.’ As editor, Vicki’s different books embody ‘Sinatra’ (DK), ‘Inside Mad’ (Time-Life) and ‘Virgin Los Angeles’ (Virgin Books). She is likely one of the Usual Gang of Idiots for MAD Magazine, an leisure reporter (Daily Variety, Entertainment Weekly, Los Angeles Magazine, CREEM), and approved biographer for popular culture icons from the Beach Boys to Beastie Boys, Paul McCartney to MC Hammer.

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