Cocktail Connoisseurs

  The perfect gift for coffee and cocktail lovers is an Espresso Martini gift set , a single box that holds everything needed to make four Espresso Martinis at home. Vodka, coffee liqueur, coffee, syrup, a recipe card and a tutorial video are all inside, so the person opening it can be shaking their first drink within minutes. That’s the quick answer. The rest of this post covers why it works so well, what you’re actually getting, and how to choose the right version. Why This Drink Sits in Two Worlds at Once Some drinks belong to one crowd. The Espresso Martini belongs to two. Coffee people love it because the coffee flavour is the star, not a background note. Cocktail people love it because it looks like a proper bar drink: dark, glossy, with a pale foam on top and three coffee beans floating in the middle. It also has a good origin story. A London bartender named Dick Bradsell invented it in the 1980s, and it has been a bar favourite ever since. Few modern cocktails have lasted t...