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HOW TO DRINK ST MAUR

Drink St Maur chilled as an elegant sip.

Enjoy bubbly cocktails with Prosecco, Champagne, and English sparkling wines.

Make long drinks and lower alcohol serves.

Create sublime sweet and sour cocktails (mojito, margarita, daiquiri…).

Riff on the theme of the English Martini.

Drink it hot…

There are lots of ways to enjoy your St Maur.

Scroll down for St Maur’s signature drinks

Sip St Maur

We designed our award winning liqueur for you to drink on its own, and many like to do just that.

Savour St Maur chilled from the fridge or enjoy over ice.

A lovely tipple and a great aperitif any time of the year.

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St Maur and bubbles is a love affair.

You select the bubbles, add a touch of tanginess with fresh citrus, and let St Maur elevate your drinks to the next level. Squeeze in the citrus juice by hand, use a “Mexican elbow”, or muddle segments in the liquor to capture the zest too. An unforgettable world of stunning drinks awaits for your to share with those you love to be with.

Hugo St Maur

The Hugo St Maur is cocktail of the week any week of the year. A Hugo spritz made with St Maur. When you get together with friends, make sure you invite Hugo.

Recipe:
50ml St Maur elderflower liqueur
Half a lime cut into wedges
6-8 fresh mint leaves
Prosecco
Ice

Make it in the glass. Pour the St Maur into a large Copa de Balon glass (or a large wine glass), squeeze the juice from the lime wedges and drop into the glass. Slap the mint leaves in the palm of your hand to awaken their flavour and drop into the glass with the St Maur and the lime wedges. Add ice and stir. Top up with chilled Prosecco, and serve with a straw.

St Maur 75

The St Maur 75 is our update on the classic French 75 cocktail. Heritage with a contemporary twist. One of the truly elegant cocktails.

Recipe:
25ml London Dry Gin
25ml St Maur elderflower liqueur
1 Tbsp freshly squeezed lemon juice
Sparkling English wine

Add the gin, St Maur and lemon juice together in a cocktail shaker and shake with ice for 10 seconds to mix and chill. Double strain into a champagne flute and top up with chilled English sparkling wine.

St Maur’s Secret Garden

In our secret garden there is a pear tree. St Maur’s partridge mascot, Percy, uses it as his Yuletide perch. It’s a Williams Pear, of course, and the inspiration for this sublime champagne cocktail, the Secret Garden, itself a variation on the St Maur 75. Enjoy a new classic pairing of elderflower and pear in this sensational sparkling celebration cocktail.

Recipe:
25ml Dry Gin
25ml St Maur Elderflower Liqueur
Tbsp 15ml Fresh Lemon Juice
Tsp 5ml pear purée
English sparkling wine or Champagne

Add together all ingredients except the sparkling wine in cocktail shaker with ice and give the mixture a good shake. Double strain into chilled champagne flute and top up with the sparkling wine, or champagne if you prefer. This is an easy to make cocktail your guests will remember you for.

Tip: buy your pear purée at the supermarket – in the baby food section!

The Laughing Cavalier

For a refreshing lower alcohol long drink try the Laughing Cavalier highball, named after our family association with the Wallace Art Collection in London. Made in a similar way to a Tom Collins the Laughing Cavalier is unique to St Maur.

Recipe:
25ml St Maur Elderflower Liqueur
Tbsp 15ml Fresh Lemon Juice
175ml sparkling water or soda water
Ice cubes

Pour the St Maur and lemon juice into a highball glass and drop in ice to fill up the glass. Top up with the sparkling water. Do not stir. Serve with straw to enjoy this drink “bottom up” or “top down”.

St Maur Tom Collins

Trade in the G&T. Leave bitterness behind with a Tom Collins. Trade up to a Tom Collins made with a little drop of England’s heart®.

Recipe:
50ml St Maur Elderflower Liqueur
25ml Dry Gin
15ml freshly squeezed lemon juice (adjust the amount to your taste)
Sparkling water

Pour the St Maur, gin, and lemon juice into a tall glass and fill with ice. Top up with sparkling water or soda water if you prefer. Stir gently and serve.

Stamp your own style

We make St Maur for you with a neutral alcohol, so that you can pair St Maur with the spirit you choose to create your cocktails with. Pick a spirit from any corner of the world, add a little drop of England’s heart® and a sensational cocktail beckons created with the Spirit of St Maur.

Flor Antiga

Let’s start in Brazil with Cachaça, the base for the Flor Antiga. The Flor Antiga is a cocktail unique to St Maur. It is part of our St Maur story, and a drink we enjoy together. If you like a caipirinha, you’ll love this.

Recipe:
50ml Cachaça
50ml St Maur Elderflower Liqueur
25ml freshly squeezed lime juice
15ml pink grapefruit juice
2 slices of celery

Vigorously shake all the ingredients, including the celery slices, together with ice in a cocktail shaker. Double strain into an ice cold cocktail glass. Garnish with a slice lime. Serve and celebrate.

The Flor Antiga cocktail was created by Matthew Hiscoe at Café Cocktail, Stratford upon Avon, England.

Margarita

A cold Margarita, just as the sun goes down. Enough said? Branch out and make yours with St Maur, to put a little drop of England’s heart® into the end of a long day.

Recipe:
25ml St Maur Elderflower Liqueur
50ml Tequila Blanco
25ml freshly squeezed lime juice
A splash of Cointreau

Add all the ingredients in a cocktail shaker with ice and shake vigorously until thoroughly chilled (that’s the drink, not you). Salt half the rim of your favourite Margarita glass dampened with lime juice. Gently strain the mixture into the glass, over more ice if you wish, and garnish with a lime slice wheel. Enjoy until chilled (that’s you, not the drink).

Royal Mojito

We love a Royal Mojito (that’s our Aunty Jane in the picture; she was married to Henry VIII). We make ours with a little drop of England’s heart® of course and English sparkling wine. A mojito is a great drink to show off the versatility of St Maur to add fresh sweetness, character, and cachet to any classic cocktail.

Recipe:
50ml white rhum
50ml St Maur elderflower liqueur
Sparkling English wine (or use soda water if you don’t want to go royal)
Juice from one lime
Mint leaves (a dozen for the mojito plus a sprig to garnish)

Gently muddle the mint leaves in a highball glass. Add the rum, St Maur, lime juice and crushed ice to half way and stir. Add a bit more ice and top up with fizz. Garnish with mint leaves. Serve with a straw.

Lady’s Daiquiri

A daiquiri is often made at the sweeter end of sweet and sour. There’s a St Maur twist on this classic too, of course: the Lady’s Daiquiri.

Recipe:
50ml white rhum
25ml St Maur elderflower liqueur
25ml freshly squeezed lime juice
1 teaspoon of borage honey (we use our own, from the farm)

Put the ingredients in a cocktail shaker with a single very large ice cube (this will give you more aeration) and shake vigorously. Double strain into a chilled coupe glass. Garnish for decoration (we’ve used a borage flower) and serve.

Irish Maid

The Irish Maid with St Maur is one of our favourite cocktails. Styled with St Maur by Matthew Hiscoe and his team at Café Cocktail, Stratford upon Avon, it’s definitely one to share and enjoy when you get together with friends. So don’t just pour them a drink, make them a drink, for the craic.

Recipe:
50ml Irish Whiskey
50ml St Maur elderflower liqueur
25ml freshly squeezed lemon juice
3 or 4 slices of cucumber (peeled, discard skin and pips)

Place the cucumber slices in a cocktail shaker and muddle gently until soft. Add all the liquid ingredients and ice, and shake vigorously for 10-15 seconds. Strain into a low ball tumbler over ice. Garnish with mint leaves and a further cumber slice or with a generous tongue of cucumber.

The English English Martini

This is the English English Martini. No, that’s not a typo. If you are going to make an English Martini (gin and elderflower liqueur) do make sure you make it English with St Maur, a little drop of England’s heart®.

Recipe:
25ml St Maur Elderflower Liqueur
50ml London dry Gin
A small sprig of rosemary
A further small wild garlic leaf to garnish

Two measures of gin, one measure of St Maur, and a small sprig of fresh rosemary muddled in the gin to release its flavour. Shake or stir this Martini, it’s up to you. Serve your English Martini icy cold. This is a lovely little drink.

Ladies Wood Martini

St Maur’s annual cycle starts at the Spring Equinox when we inspect the developing wild elder blossoms on our farmland and in our woodlands… …and we take the opportunity to forage for wild garlic to flavour the “Ladies Wood Martini”, an intriguing variation on an English Martini made with wild garlic and St Maur.

Recipe:
25ml St Maur Elderflower Liqueur
50ml London dry Gin
One or two fresh wild garlic leaves
A further small wild garlic leaf to garnish

Tear the garlic leaves and muddle gently in the gin in a mixing jug. Add ice cubes and the St Maur and stir until cooled. Fine strain into an ice cold cocktail glass. Garnish with a small garlic leaf.

Comtesse de Sureau

Cocktail aficionados may be familiar with the Comte de Sureau, a Negroni style apéritif. We add fresh lemon juice and, of course, the expressive sensuality of St Maur Elderflower Liqueur to create a peerless variation: the Comtesse

Recipe:
50ml St Maur Elderflower Liqueur
50ml London Dry Gin
7.5ml Campari Bitters
The juice of half a lemon

Introduce the ingredients in a mixing jug and stir with ice until suitably chilled. Pour into a low ball tumbler glass over ice, and garnish with orange and lemon peel.

Some like it hot

St Maur hot is in a league of its own. Create a stir. Go hot.

Recipe:
50ml St Maur
Slice of fresh orange
6-10 fresh mint leaves
2 slices of fresh root ginger
Short cinnamon stick
Water, just off the boil.

Our inspiration for this recipe was drinking mint tea in Amsterdam. Place the ginger root, mint leaves and orange slice in the bottom of a mug and gently muddle to release their flavours. Pour in the St Maur, drop in the cinnamon stick, and top up with the hot water. Stir and serve.

St Maur Winter Warmer

When it gets cold, drink hot cocktails. Enjoy a St Maur Winter Warmer.

Recipe (measures are approximate)
50ml St Maur Elderflower Liqueur
30ml whiskey or whisky, whichever you prefer
15ml freshly squeezed lemon juice
1 tsp of honey (we use borage honey from the farm)
Approx 125ml (½ cup) hot water

This cocktail is very easy to make. Combine the St Maur Elderflower Liqueur, whiskey/whisky, lemon juice, and honey in a mug. Pour in the hot water (just off the boil is ideal). Stir until the honey has dissolved and the ingredients are mixed. Garnish with a cinnamon stick, or star anise, or a lemon wheel. Serve, relax in the moment, and enjoy.

These are just some of our suggestions to get you started on your discovery of St Maur.