Cîroc Apple Vodka

Cîroc Apple is THE perfect level-up for a slew of cocktails.

Jean-Sébastien Robicquet has the official title of "Commander of Bordeaux" for his lifetime of accomplishment in Wine and Spirits. His family has been making Wine in the region for more than four hundred years. When he decided to learn distillation, he took a position at Hennessy Cognac for ten years and then founded Maison Villevert to make his own. In 2001, Diageo approached him about a partnership to create a premium Vodka built on the same Eau de Vie used in Cognac production — thus Cîroc Vodka was born in 2003.

The first Apple Martini — or Appletini — was created in the bar at Lola’s West Hollywood restaurant in 1996. Then Cîroc Apple came along and it can now be made perfectly. The natural apple essences and hint of citrus notes infused into Cîroc’s signature Eau de Vie Spirit levels up the entire experience. This is a very nice infused Spirit to sip with nothing but ice. But it is an absolute joy to play with at the cocktail bar. We even mixed up an Apple Mojito replacing the Rum with Cîroc Apple — we could have drank those all night. And if you like a Moscow Mule, the natural affinity of apple and ginger makes that cocktail even more of a winner.

Smartass Corner:
Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg never had an Appletini before. But in the movie about his company — "The Social Network" — the characters are seen drinking them. Zuckerberg has since declared the Appletini the official cocktail of Facebook.