Coco & Vanilla Cocktails | Review

[Ad- gifted products] Since lock down began, the want for delicious cocktails sent directly to your door has increased. Jupiter is not much of a beer drinker and loves mixed drinks. Dann enjoys beer but spends a lot of time mixing his own drinks and enjoying the balance and showman ship that comes with creating your own. When Coco & Vanilla announced they’d be mailing out some of their cocktails, creating their own and allowing us to drink them in our own home, we were delighted! We both sampled three of their cocktails and want to talk about each one.

Cherry Vodka and Vanilla Cream Soda

Our first drink contained cherries soaked in vodka, then blended. Once the cherries have been blended, they are filtered through with vodka to help them fully combine. The cream soda aspect is made from a vanilla syrup, lightened with a bit of water and a small hint of lemon. These two combined resulted in a quite sweet, vanilla forward drink that hits you with cherry at the end, followed by a light taste of vodka. These was both of our favourites of the trio – with a great fruity and vanilla mix, which was light and feels like summer. There are small specks, of what we assume is vanilla bean, within the drink which looks slightly strange to us, but the drink wasn’t grainy and went down a treat.

Spiced Rum and Kola Nut Tonic

The spiced rum drink was one for Dann. It includes a 3 year aged baby rum infused with cloves, aniseed and then orange, cherry and plum peel. The tonic itself is made from African kola nut, red cinchona bark, vanilla pod, cloves, aniseed, cinnamon, lemon juice and sugar. The drink is very spiced – that’s the forward flavor – which to us tasted quite a bit of clove. If you like spiced rum, this is a rum that’s spiced to the max, providing a really intense drink for rum lovers. It’s also got a great aroma to the drink!

Gin and Juice

The Gin and Juice smelled lovely too, fruity being the main smell. The gin is peppercorn and chamomile gin, made with black, green and pink peppercorn, aniseed and grapefruit peel. The juice itself is made from pressed apples and raspberries, filtered with citrus acid, sugar and water. The drink tasted sort of like Love Hearts – a soft, chalky sweet – but made into a drink form. It’s not what either of us expected, but the drink came across quite summery and refreshing, which was very nice. I think the name Gin and Juice doesn’t give the drink justice as it’s much more than a normal gin and orange juice.

All of these cocktails contain an AVB of 17% and have two units of alcohol per bottle, making them perfect to split between the two. Despite them being 17%, all of these cocktails are quite smooth to drink as well, which is pretty impressive.

You can order your own cocktails and find out more about Coco & Vanilla on their website.

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