COCKTAIL SPICES

Spices for Cocktails and Mixology

In this section, we have selected the best cocktail spices, designed to enrich the preparation of drinks with precious aromas and flavors. A collection of spices for bartenders, intended for mixology and sourced from the best producers and organic cultivations around the world to enhance and intensify the aromas and flavors in a good cocktail.

Spices are an important element of cuisine, evoking scents of distant lands, essences from around the world, from the streets of Marrakech where they are sold in large quantities, to the mortars in India filled with spice blends for numerous aromatic dishes, from curries to couscous, to faraway countries in Asia and Africa with their unique mixes. Due to their characteristics, they could not be left only in the kitchen but have entered the world of cocktails and mixology, becoming spices to drink.

Herbs and Spices in Cocktails: A New Trend?

Spices and cocktails have always been a winning combination, and indeed the use of spices in cocktails and mixology is not a novelty: there are many liqueurs and bitters, even in Italian tradition, that are produced using various spices, such as juniper berries in gin, Campari, a bitter obtained from the infusion of bitter aromatic herbs, chartreuse, which requires 130 herbs for production, vermouth, and more.

Today, however, the use of spices and aromatic herbs goes beyond simple liquor production: in cocktails, spices can add an extra touch and be exploited in mixology in many ways: grated at the end of mixing like nutmeg or tonka bean or cardamom, used in infusion like Madagascar pepper or star anise or even witch hazel, for a cocktail based on a spiced tea, or used as a fragrant and tasty component like cocoa nibs or organic orange peels.

Spices in cocktails can provide a smoky touch, slightly bitter or spicy, intensify a drink and complement the taste of a liqueur, as well as serve as delicate and unusual garnishes.

This section also includes cocktail essences like bergamot essential oil, with its citrusy and pungent aroma.

If you are a bartender looking for spices and special elements for your drinks, check out our section dedicated to bartending and mixology where you can find edible flowers, garnishes, botanicals, and fine teas for your drinks.

Using Spices in Cocktails

The skill of bartenders can transform spices from all over the world into unique ingredients for rare and peculiar cocktails. The new trends in cocktails increasingly see exotic spices and aromatic herbs as protagonists of bar counters. In this section, we have chosen the best spices, essences, and herbs rich in aromas, scents, and flavors for bartenders and mixology experts looking for unique ingredients to unleash their creativity and skill. Herbs, seeds, essences, and spices to create reductions, infusions, syrups, and bases, or to use as garnish to surprise your customers: you can choose from the finest quality products and create your own kit of cocktail spices always new and with distant flavors.

Cocktail Spices for Sale Online at Terza Luna

Our selection of spices for bartenders, designed to incorporate prominent elements for mixology, includes spices, seeds, berries, aromatic herbs, and essences. We are an e-shop of spices and rare teas and have been a reference point for bartenders and venues looking to offer different products to their clientele for years. In our mixology section, you can find rare spices, garnishes, edible flowers, botanicals, barks, and fine teas to prepare infusions as the base of cocktails. Among the spices and essences for drinks, we have selected:

• Berries: Madagascar pepper, long pepper, Tasmania pepper, Jamaica pepper or allspice, cubebe pepper, Ethiopian pepper
• Spices: nutmeg, sumac, star anise, organic ginger, mace
• Citrus: organic orange peels, bergamot essential oil
• Plants: artemisia, mugwort
• Seeds: cardamom, coriander
• Fruits: tonka beans, black lime, vanilla berries
• Barks: Cinnamon

Within this category, you will find a selection of the finest products suitable selected from over 100 online spices in our store.

Spices and Cocktail Pairings

Spices in cocktails are not an unusual ingredient: some of the most famous drinks contain spices, like the Alexander, sprinkled with nutmeg or eggnog, with cinnamon. Pairings with the alcoholic base and coloring element, such as syrups and liqueurs, are at the discretion of the mixologist's delicacy and palate, who will be able to balance the intensity of the spices with the alcoholic element.

Nutmeg, cinnamon, or cardamom can be sprinkled or grated directly onto drinks. Herbs like mugwort or artemisia can be infused to create syrups, reductions, or base teas. Seeds and berries like various types of pepper, star anise, juniper, and allspice are perfect for sodas, syrups, ground directly onto drinks, for liqueurs, to counterbalance with sweet elements that temper their spiciness.

These spices can liven up traditional cocktails, like adding ginger or cardamom to a Mojito, or be used in pairings with alcoholic beverages, sodas, and infusions for new and experimental cocktails with bold and intense flavors, for a quality leap in your establishment.

Grated, infused, pounded with a mortar, spices for cocktails offer an intense aroma and a unique essence to drinks, they can be used for bitters, cordials, fortifying wines, for falernum, syrups, and sodas.

Cocktails with Spices: Recipes

Spices for cocktails are versatile and varied ingredients suitable for experimenting and creating new drinks that look to current trends and the globalized world where cultures and cuisines blend through each country's own ingredients. There are several cocktail recipes with spices and essences, as for some years now the trend of cocktails with spices and tea is increasingly growing, and every respectable bartender includes in their menu rare spiced cocktails rich in fragrant essences.

It is important to balance the spices well, as alcohol tends to enhance their savoriness and intensity, especially when the essence for the cocktail is a pepper or chili.

In our blog, we have collected 10 cocktail recipes with spices and tea for bartenders and mixologists who wish to delve into the world of herbs, spices, and essences to take their drinks to the next level. We propose, among the cocktails with spices:

• TEXmex Cocktail based on ginger tea and citrus
• Chai Old Fashioned based on black tea Nepal Garam Massala
• Tea Punch Express based on green tea Marrakech Express and Turmeric
• Spicy Blast with Matcha and ginger

Read our article to discover the recipes and learn more. To complete your drinks, also take a look at our garnishes, botanicals, and infusions that you can find, in addition to our personal selection of spices for cocktails for bartenders and mixologists, rare flavors, herbs, and essences for the world of alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks, in the mixology section.

If you are the owner of a bar or establishment and are looking for quality products for your business, check out our section dedicated to bars and horeca activities.