Perfecting The Pantone Peach Cocktail

The Pantone Color of the Year 2024 is Peach Fuzz. After the more in-your-face Viva Magenta of 2023, Peach Fuzz “captures our desire to nurture ourselves and others. It’s a velvety gentle peach tone whose all-embracing spirit enriches mind, body and soul,” Pantone says.

Mxiologists, meanwhile, have been busy trying to capture that peachy shade and sentiment in cocktails. 

For instance, with The Freudian Sip from Rio’s Tequila Bar in Fort Lauderdale, FL, the peach color comes from the combination of mezcal, Liquor 43 and Aperol. Created by Natalie Samario, beverage director at SFL Hospitality Group, the drink also includes fresh coconut and lime, which help to offset the sweetness and provide a little zest to the cocktail. 

The Eden cocktail (shown atop) at Bar Magnolia in Los Angeles’ Hotel Figueroa, reflects not just the peachy hue but embodies the symbolic meaning behind Peach Fuzz, inviting patrons to experience a sip of tranquility, a taste of bliss and a moment of harmony. Corporate beverage director Carla Lorenzo created the drink with Sipsmith gin, chamomile-infused amontillado sherry, lime, simple, guava and cucumber.

The Caipi Lychee, created by Radovan Jankovic, beverage director at Mercy Me and Yours Truly in Washington, D.C., represents an innovative reinterpretation of the traditional South American Caipirinha. It showcases the distinctiveness of the cachaça spirit, along with bergamot liqueur, raspberry, lime and lychee.

The Midnight Giant at Death & Co. in Los Angeles is sweet, tropical sipper with rum, condensed milk, vanilla syrup, sweet potato shochu and mamey fruit juice for a peach-colored concoction. The Harvest Peach at The Lobby Lounge & RawBar in the Fairmont Pacific Rim combines brandy with lemon and white peach, topped with prosecco. Whiskey Neat in Fort Lauderdale, FL, reinvents the traditional Whiskey Sour with the Peachy Keen, a blend of Old Forester 100 Proof rye, lemon, and peach puree topped with Filthy Cherry juice.

The Scarlet Ibis from Iron Rose at The Mills House Hotel in Charleston, SC, with gin, coconut cream, lemon juice and Peychaud’s bitters, “is one of my all-time favorite cocktails, combining London Dry Gin with a little taste of the tropics,” says Beau Williams, the hotel’s director of restaurants and bars. “Perfect year-round, it’s refreshing, bright, citrusy, and delicious. And don’t be shy with the bitters, it’s what gives the cocktail that beautiful peach-fuzz color!”

Here are a few peach perfect cocktail recipes to try.

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