Sips & Synopsis - This Weeks Makings

• Golden Hour Drinks

• Trivia Question

• Drink of the Week - Fig & Bourbon

• Mocktail Moment: Blackberry Fig Fizz

• This is the Sweet Spot

☀️ What’s in Your Glass This Week...

As the sun starts to dip earlier and the shadows grow longer, we’re swapping bright citrus and berries for richer fruit and a slower pace. This week, we’re going deep, into figs, plums, and grapes - and making drinks that taste like the golden hour in a glass.

✔️ 3 lush, fruit-forward cocktails starring figs, plums & grapes
✔️ 1 mocktail with end-of-summer elegance
✔️ A story about embracing this in-between season
✔️ 2 links to elevate your late-summer sipping
✔️ A quote and a trivia question worth savoring

Let’s raise a glass to these final, magical sips of summer.

Trivia Question❓

Which Mediterranean country is known for producing the most figs in the world?

Answer at the bottom of the newsletter

Drink of the Week: Fig & Bourbon

Earthy, sweet, and slightly spicy - this cocktail is fall-curious, but still firmly rooted in late summer.

Ingredients:

• 2 oz bourbon

• 1 ripe fig, halved

• 0.75 oz lemon juice

• 0.5 oz honey or fig syrup

• 2 dashes Angostura bitters

• Garnish: fig slice or sprig of rosemary

Directions:

1. Muddle the fig with honey and lemon juice in a shaker.

2. Add bourbon, bitters, and ice.

3. Shake well, then strain into a rocks glass over ice.

4. Garnish with a fig slice or rosemary sprig.

It’s bold, juicy, and endlessly sippable. Like your favorite playlist with a touch of soul.

🍇 Bonus Cocktails

1. Sparkling Grape & Thyme Spritz

• 2 oz white grape juice

• 1 oz dry vermouth

• 1 oz club soda or tonic

• 2 sprigs thyme

• Shake grape juice and vermouth with ice and a thyme sprig. Strain, top with soda, garnish with grapes and fresh thyme.

2. Plum & Gin Cooler

• 2 ripe plums, pitted and muddled

• 2 oz gin

• 0.5 oz lime juice

• 0.5 oz simple syrup

• Muddle plums, shake with gin, lime, syrup. Strain into a highball with ice, top with soda water.

🍹 Mocktail Moment: Blackberry Fig Fizz

• 1 ripe fig

• 4 blackberries

• 0.5 oz lemon juice

• 0.5 oz honey or agave

• Sparkling water to top

Muddle fruit and sweetener, shake with lemon and ice, strain into a coupe, top with sparkling water, and garnish with a berry or edible flower.

This Is the Sweet Spot

There’s something magical about late August. The light changes. The air gets heavier - but more golden. Summer’s not over, but it’s whispering its exit.

This week, I picked some figs from my neighbors tree and was gifted some plums from my mom’s little orchard in Morton, WA. I really didn’t have a big plan, just a craving for something rich and velvety. I came home, muddled the figs with honey and bourbon, and one sip later, I realized… this is the cocktail that defines the season. Not high-octane. Not too sweet. Just balanced, dark, and soulful.

We’re in the sweet spot—the moment before everything shifts. And that deserves a drink worth remembering.

🛍️ Elevate Your End-of-Summer Bar

• 🥄 Cocktail Muddler & Mixing Spoon Set – sturdy and stylish, perfect for figs, plums, herbs, and berries

• 🥃 Lowball Glass Set (8.5 oz) – simple, elegant glasses that make every sip feel like a moment