Domaine de Canton Sponsors LUPEC Seattle!

Ladies United for the Preservation of Endangered Cocktails, better known as LUPEC, is a nation wide women's cocktail club with chapters in most of the major cities in the USA. The Seattle chapter of LUPEC is only a few months old but already boasts over 35 members.

The first Wednesday of every month, women from all over Seattle gather to enjoy each others company, and taste cocktails at one of a rotation of bars and restaurants around the city. While some women are bartenders and servers, others are food writers, bloggers, and cocktail enthusiasts. What they all share is a passion for classic cocktails.

On March 3rd the members gathered at Rob Roy, where owners Anu Apte and Zane Harris mixed a selection of drinks featuring Domaine de Canton for the ladies to try. These included the Canton Negroni, the Ginger Persuasian, To LUPEC With Love, and the Canton Swizzle. And it was with a Domaine de Canton cocktail in hand that the ladies toasted to the LUPEC slogan, "Dismantaling the patriarchy, one drink at a time."

Canton Negroni

1.5 oz DDC
1 oz campari
1 oz orange juice
.5 dry vermouth

Shake, and serve on the rocks.

Ginger Persuasian by Anu Apte

1 oz Domaine de Canton
1 oz aquavit
.5 oz lavender honey
2 dashes Angostura bitters
2 dashes orange bitters

Muddle ingredients with one fresh strawberry, shake with ice, strain into champagne flute, top with sparkling Pinot Noir

Canton Swizzle by Zane Harris

1.5 dark rum

.5 oz Domaine de Canton

1 oz pineapple juice

1 oz orange juice
1 oz lime juice
.5 oz falernum

Combine ingredients, shake, strain into collins glass,top with crushed ice, garnish with mint sprig

To LUPEC With Love by Bryn Lumsden

1 oz Domaine de Canton

1 oz rye whiskey

.5 oz lemon juice

.25 oz maraschino liqueur

egg white

add ingredients to shaker, shake once without ice, add ice, shake again, strain into glass, garnish with 1 dash of Fernet Branca

For more info, please see these links.

http://www.robroyseattle.com/

http://lupecseattle.com/

Photos courtesy of http://www.mikorussell.com/.   Domaine de Canton thanks Rob Roy, LUPEC Seattle, and Miko Russell Photography for such a wonderful event!