Shaking things up

Words and recipes by Jacob Barter. Photography by Jason Porter on location at Noori Bar, Port Noarlunga.

The Fleurieu may be known for its cellar doors, but locally distilled spirits – and the drinking holes and hideouts serving them up – are beginning to demand their share of attention. We checked out Port Noarlunga’s Noori, and asked owner and head

Gordi Sour

Tiny Friday Gordito

Cool people making a product with good intent – glorious. Gordito is a spirit inspired by Chilean pisco (of Pisco Sour fame). Here we have the Gordi Sour. It’s to the point. It’s easy to make. It’s the best way to consume Tiny Friday Gordito, so much so the creators printed the recipe on the bottle.

Ingredients:

60ml Tiny Friday Gordito

30ml lemon juice

20ml simple syrup

One egg white

Add all ingredients to a cocktail shaker. Shake for a silky-smooth, foamy finish. Top with a wedge of fresh or dried lemon to make it look pretty. This is for when the party shoes come out.

Missus Collins

Spring Seed Wine Co. 2022 Morning Bride Rosé

After a long lunch or decadent dinner, this cocktail is not only refreshing but may also help to relax your stomach.

The Morning Bride Rosé has a beautiful and delicate aromatic profile of blossom, white flower and strawberries and is kept alive in this cocktail by the equally aromatic bergamot, present in the Italicus. With an electric charge from the lemon and some broadening with the simple syrup, all that’s needed is soda to stretch and you’re good to lay down in the sun.

Ingredients:

30ml Spring Seed Wine Co. 2022 Morning Bride Rosé

Squeeze of lemon

Simple sugar syrup to taste

15ml Italicus

Soda to stretch

Simply add ingredients over ice, top your glass with soda then give it a stir. Garnish with edible flowers.

Ginger & Orange Garibaldi

Prohibition Blood Orange Cello

Top of the list of bars I’m desperate to visit is Dantes in New York, which came to fame with a simple mix of fluffy OJ and Campari called the Garibaldi. This is our take, substituting Campari with Prohibition’s cello which features the intense colour and flavour that only a blood orange can deliver.

Ingredients:

100ml strained and shaken orange juice (to make it fluffy)

25ml ginger syrup (equal parts fresh ginger and sugar)

45ml Prohibition Blood Orange Cello barkeeper Jacob Barter to create summer-in-a-glass featuring six different producers. With a confident nod and his mind already ticking, he got down to business. We then tried our hardest not to drink them all during work hours.

Add ingredients to a cocktail shaker. Shake. Serve over ice. Delish.

Brothers Leask

(Named for Malcolm and Richard – the owners of Hither & Yon and reigning Bushing Monarchs of McLaren Vale.)

Hither & Yon 2022 Tempranillo

When the weather is hot but you still like your wine rouge, give this tempranillo from Hither & Yon a light lift to enjoy through summer. Extra delicious if you have fresh summer mulberries at your disposal.

Ingredients:

30 ml Roselle – a sweet, berry-focused bitter amaro (think a cross between Aperol and Campari)

45ml Hither & Yon 2022 Tempranillo

Lemonade

Fresh berries to garnish

Add the Roselle and Tempranillo to a glass and stir. Add ice then top with lemonade and fresh berries to make it beautiful and extra sweet.

Pear and Almond Bellini

Main & Cherry Prosecco

A twist on the classic Italian cocktail, this is a great bubbly idea for the festive season and a seriously great drink no matter how it’s made. The lingering flavour of almond hums on the palette and would go really well with some fine dark chocolate.

Ingredients:

One ripe pear

Orgeat syrup

Main & Cherry Prosecco

First make a pear and almond syrup. Grab some Orgeat syrup (available from your local Asian or Italian supermarket and made with almonds, sugar and either rose water or orange flower), throw it in a food processor together with a ripe pear and mix the two together at a 1:1 ratio.

Place 45ml of the pear and almond syrup in a flute.

Top with Main & Cherry Prosecco, give it a stir and live your best life.

Single Malt Whisky

The McLaren Vale Distillery Single Malt Whisky

No shaking or stirring. Just a good whisky glass and a quiet corner somewhere. Mix is simple as this is a premium product: a single malt aged in Geoff Hardy shiraz casks and finished in fortified muscat barrels. Drink neat or with a cube of ice or some of those fancy whisky stones. Enjoy while the kids are busy outside.

Ingredients:

45ml The McLaren Vale Distillery Single Malt Whisky

Pour into glass. Close your eyes and sip slowly.

Cocktail accouterments and fine glassware courtesy of Kookery, Willunga and Old Noarlunga. All other glassware from Jacob’s cabinet.