Introduction

On the Rocks Cosmopolitan: A wildly popular cocktail. The Cosmopolitan is simple cocktail with a long history. Often called Cosmo, this cocktail blends vodka, cranberry flavors, and triple sec. Buy this ready-to-drink vodka Cosmopolitan for yourself or send it as gift and enjoy the convenience of delivery! TAG Liquor Store is here for all your alcohol delivery need!

A passionately current cocktail, The Cosmopolitan is a simple cocktail with a significant history. Often refer to as ‘The Cosmo’, this pre-made cocktail from On The Rock blends Effen vodka with cranberry, triple sec, lemon zest, and lime flavors. On The Rocks Cosmopolitan is the perfect ready-to-drink premium cocktail for any occasion. Just pour over ice and enjoy!

 On The Rocks Cosmopolitan

This Cosmo from On The Rocks is more sour than sweet. Also, it is very drinkable whether you prefer a sweet cocktail or something little less sweet. So it is a vodka-based cocktail, so it doesn’t have the essential sweetness of some other liquor. So just as a reminder, this is not your usual hard carbonated water.

Things You Should Know About the Cosmopolitan

When drinking Cosmopolitan, it’s best to dispense with the notion that you’re indulging in an embarrassed pleasure. When made right, the tart-sweet combination with glorious rosy hue is a lovable libation. Though it will likely remain intimately linked to late ’90s gal-pal classic “Sex and City” (itself no guilty pleasure), the Cosmopolitan is true New Yorker and precede the show by around a decade. From its beginning behind the bar to the history of cranberry juice in U.S., here are six things to know about Cosmopolitan.

Its Blueprint Is the Sour / On the Rocks Cosmopolitan

At its core, the Cosmo is in family tree of sour—spirit, citrus, and sugar, much like Margarita, which was part of Cecchini’s revising inspiration. “I did the same thing we were doing with a Margarita; it was a short leap,” he says. “The Cosmo’s very simple sour. That’s how we were making Margaritas at the time, so i made them with fresh lime juice and Cointreau,” and he swapped tequila for Absolut Citron, adding splash of cranberry juice for color.

Flavored Vodka Was the Final Lynchpin

In the late ’80s, Absolut released its first flavor of vodka, lemon-flavored Citron. Cecchini had been playing around with behind the bar at The Odeon, and it seemed like a good fit for Cosmo, along with a few other fresher tweaks.

Cranberry Panic of the ’60s Is Why  Your ’80s Ingredient.

In November 1959, cranberry in Pacific Northwest was discovered with traces of amino triazole, a weed killer used to kill bog weed that also causes cancer in lab rats. The U.S. Secretary of Health made American sons aware of sharp fruit, humiliating the cranberry industry. In Cecchini’s Cosmopolitan, the juice gave  Drink a rosy tone, similar to ones with grenadine at Odeon but not so sugary sweet. To recover, a collective of grower known as Ocean Spray started publishing recipe booklet to encourage cranberries in all their solid and liquid forms again, thus bringing cranberry juice cocktails back into popularity (this may have also led to Sea Breeze).

Ocean Spray Standard, but You Can Riff

Cecchini always keeps Ocean Spray on hand at his honored Long Island Bar in Brooklyn, but it’s imaginable to try a house-made version if you want to try it. Cover 12 ounces of fresh cranberry with water in a medium pot, simmer until the skins burst, and strain and press the solid into a bowl. Return juice to the pot, stir in the cup of white sugar (or to taste), and also heat until sugar dissolves. After refrigeration in a sterilized container, syrup should last about three weeks. It also work well in wintery cocktails for holiday get-togethers.

Carrie Didn’t Sip One Until Season 2

While it may seem like Drink was a fifth friend on “Sex and the City,” Cosmo didn’t appear on the show until the second episode of the second season—more than decade after the Drink’s invention. Since then, though, it has remained a staple of the show.

The History and Secrets of the Cosmopolitan

• For such a pretty little drink, the Cosmopolitan has become the most maligned millennial of it generation—ubiquitous, utterly uninteresting, and possessing beauty that originate partly from the belly of the plastic bottle. Or so some say.
• Then the Cosmo still burns bright with the drinking public. So maybe it’s not such lousy Drink after all. At its heart, it’s perfectly respectable sour. Yet, the Cosmopolitan teeters on it precarious tall stem between the up-to-date classic of cocktail canon and the pink pariah of certain bartending brethren.
• “Bartenders meet me and say, ‘Oh, you’re a guy I’ve wanted to kill for 30 years. I used to make a million of those!’ And I’m like, ‘Yeah, I’m that guy,'” deadpan Toby Cecchini, unironically sipping glass of sunset-pink rose at a much beloved Brooklyn cocktail establishment. So, he Long Island Bar, where he still stocks Ocean Spray for occasional Cosmo request.
• “Absolut came out with Citron, and we were amazed,” says Cecchini. “We were like, The flavor—it’s in vodka! It’s silly to think about that now, but begat entire ’90s, which were about infusing stuff into vodka.”

Conclusion

Whether in case you’ve been living under a mountain of discarded Carrie Bradshaw get-ups in Patricia Field’s closet, Cecchini is unequivocal inventor of Cosmopolitan as we know it today, made Absolute Citron vodka, Cointreau, Ocean Spray cranberry juice cocktail, and also fresh lime juice, lemon twist combo he came to in autumn of 1988 when working behind bar at Keith McNally’s famed Odeon. So, in this bustling, neon-lit Tribeca hangout, arty celebs were as regular sight as plates full of steak frite.