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Extra virgin olive oil cocktails

Cocktails mixology: when the extra virgin olive oil becomes a drink

Apulian extra virgin olive oil has always been the undisputed star of seasonings, capable of enhancing and enriching any dish.
But try to imagine it also in your glass, perhaps as a special ingredient for fresh and special cocktails.
Well yes, among the recipes with extra virgin olive oil, we can find cocktails based on Apulian oil with a unique taste and scent to give an extra touch to your ideas in the kitchen.

Refreshing and with a Mediterranean flavour, this type of aperitif cocktail is a new, unusual, and revolutionary approach pioneered by Giuseppe Calò, the famous Molfetta mixologist.
Thanks to his skills and creativity, Giuseppe Calò created a cocktail with Mezcal and a cocktail with Aperol for us by mixing our Aria di mare oil, a cold-pressed extra virgin olive oil with a balanced taste.

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The Aperiolio cocktail combines the typical ingredients of the Apulian aperitif (oil, cherry tomatoes, and basil) with the Mexican mezcal distillate with a characteristic smoky flavour.
The Cialletta Spritz is a reinterpretation of the common Spritz. Its name derives, in fact, from the combination in the preparation phase with the classic bruschetta which here in Molfetta, in Puglia, is called “cialletta”.
.Molfetta’s cialletta has a story behind it, in fact it was eaten in times of poverty during the post-war period when << Nothing got wasted!>>, as our grandmother Lucrezia would say. The stale bread was soaked with water, to make it soft again, and then seasoned with cherry tomatoes, oil, salt, oregano, and onion. The cialletta is ready! Just eat it!

Now you only have to try our unusual aperitif cocktails, to be prepared also at home!

Aperiolio Aria di Mare

Cocktail with Mezcal and EVO oil

Ingredients

  • 4 cherry tomatoes
  • 6 basil leaves
  • 5/6 Maldon salt flakes
  • 3cl Mezcal
  • 1.5 cl lemon juice
  • 1.5 cl oil
Chop the cherry tomatoes and basil leaves and let them macerate together with the lemon juice and oil. Then add the Mezcal and start shaking without ice, strongly. Filter with a fine mesh strainer. Then add the ice in the shaker and shake again. Season with Maldon salt.
Aperiolio cocktail recipe

Cialletta Spritz

Cocktail with aperol and EVO oil

Ingredients

  • 3cl Aperol
  • 2cl Aria di Mare oil
  • Dry spumante
  • Soda

Pour all the ingredients directly into the glass and mix with a cappuccino whisk. Add ice and mix again.

Cialletta spritz recipe