Italian Lemonade Cocktail
Italian Lemonade Cocktail with Vodka and Gin is a great year round cocktail but we especially love it in the heat of summer; it’s so refreshing!
This has been quite the week and not quite sure when the completion of photos and a post has have me actually feel like a drink is an order, I’m grateful I’ve got this Italian Lemonade Cocktail on hand.
This simple Italian Lemonade with Vodka, Gin and Orange Liqueur is just that too. Better late than never. So perfect for Sunday too…so really I made me do it!
My intentions were actually to recreate a cocktail I had at a local restaurant a couple of weeks ago. But only after the ingredients were mixed did I start to wonder about something with cranberries. I might have 5 pounds of them frozen for use but were they still really in season? A quick call to my local Sprouts and I found I was out of luck.
They had a few but that’s only because they emptied the warehouse of all they had left; I was assured by the produce manager that cranberry days were really over. There is no point in my sharing something you can’t make…I’ll put that on the burner for next holiday season (and hope I remember it then!).
I remembered…this is that…a Cranberry Sage Cocktail! Beautiful and delish, mark your calendars now for the holidays for this one.
Luckily I had something else in my back pocket. I had joined a friend for cocktails at Brio Italian Grille, we enjoyed this cocktail and lo and behold asked the bartender for and got the recipe for this drink.
I sort of felt like the proud mama; a friend of mine actually did the asking; she was hoping the magic she had seen me do would work and it did…people can be amazingly generous when you’re nice to them!
I had just procured a bottle of Prairie Organic Vodka; it’s both organic and gluten free with a corn instead of wheat base. Three family farmers on the Minnesota prairie own the land and each family works in their field up to three times longer than conventional farmers, all to cultivate the nutrient-rich soil and organic corn that will become Prairie spirits.
Understanding that climate, soil and moisture levels vary, Prairie’s single vintage organic corn is distilled to taste, not a prescribed number of times.
What I loved most? Yes, it’s light and it’s got that somewhat almost medicinal character with the aroma and first sip but then…nothing. Bare of any after taste and I thought that lovely. The only negative is that it has limited distribution and might be hard to find except online. Find it; it’s worth every penny!
What I love the most about this Italian Lemonade is simple. Lemons. They are abundant and big and luscious so while lemonade is somehow relegated to summer months; winter is really the best time for Florida citrus so don’t forgo a great drink like this for holiday events. Easy to prepare too so absolutely perfect for a crowd.
That crowd that will gather to eat appetizers and chili in abundance and will need something cool and refreshing to wash it down. This is that. Like vodka? Got it. Gin? That too. Add a bit of orange liqueur, lemonade and soda water and you can see how simple it is. Simply divine.
I love this drink. One of those that you could so easily down with the first sip..but don’t. Savor it and sip it and enjoy it now and all through the coming warmer months. They are coming soon right?
More Lemonade Cocktails
- Blackberry Whiskey Lemonade Cocktail
- Blueberry Lemonade Vodka Cocktail
- Lemonade and Tequila Cocktail
- Lavender Lemonade Martini
- Irish Lemonade Cocktail
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Italian Lemonade Cocktail
Ingredients
- ¾ ounce vodka
- ½ ounce gin
- ½ ounce Orange Liqueur
- 4 ounces lemonade if using prepared concentrate this is after mixing with water
- ½ ounce soda water
Instructions
- Fill a Collins glass with ice. Fill a shaker with ice and add everything but the soda water. Shake 10-15 times and strain it over the ice in the glass. Top with soda water and stir.
- Garnish with a lemon wheel.
I find your comment about the families working their fields 3 times longer than conventional farmers inaccurate to say the least. I don’t know where you are from but my father was a farmer and there is NO WAY anyone could work 3 times longer than he did. He worked from sunup to sundown as did all the farmers in our area. The only break they had was when the snow came and he never retired. He died at 96.
It came from the company that produces the product. I’m sure you’re father worked hard too; this was not a comment to single out every single farmer but I’m certain an observation made of their own company in relationship to other norms. You can’t be satisfied that your father worked hard without questioning every word that is said elsewhere in generality? That’s a shame; do you waste your own time hunting for trivia so that you can comment on your outrage? I bet your dad didn’t have time for that kind of nonsense!
I’ve been enjoying Bravo/Brio’s Italian Lemonade’s for a couple years now and have never grown tired of them. And now I have the recipe.
TYVM, Art D.
I hope you enjoy this one…be sure to let me know Arthur!
Nice refreshing drink! I always know it’s Friday when I see one of your drink posts. 😉 This is a winner — thanks.