100 Mile Cocktails: The Vodka Drinks of Four Seasons

Four Seasons mixologists in North, Central and South America got to work on these “farm to glass” vodka cocktails.

Mar 23, 2012

By: L.T. Niosi

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Four Seasons Resort Maui at Wailea's “Kula Lavender Mist

The “Teton Sweet Beet,” “Pomelo” and “Malama Ka Aina” Cocktails

Four Seasons Resort Scottsdale at Troon North's “Pearfect Pair” Cocktail

Four Seasons Resort The Biltmore Santa Barbara’s “So Cal Strawberry Fizz” Cocktail

“Citrus Tangerina” and “Texas Wildflowers”

Four Seasons Resort Palm Beach's “Radius” Cocktail

Four Seasons Hotel Westlake Village, California's “Tangerine Blossom” Cocktail

Four Seasons Resort Hualalai at Historic Ka’upulehu’s Kōa Wai cocktail

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The cocktail created by Four Seasons Resort Maui at Wailea, the Kula Lavender Mist, was made using homemade vanilla infused Maui Ocean Vodka and lavender syrup.

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Clockwise from top: Four Seasons Resort Jackson Hole created a cocktail called the Teton Sweet Beet using four different types of beets, Four Seasons Hotel Miami’s cocktail Pomelo is mixed with rosemary syrup, orange vodka and Florida Pomelo, and Four Seasons Resort Lana’i at Manele Bay made a delicious drink called the Malama Ka Aina, which means “respecting the land." (Beverly Wilshire, Beverly Hills' cocktails, Venetian Fizz and Secret Garden, a gin drink, are not pictured.)

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Four Seasons Resort Scottsdale at Troon North created the Pearfect Pair, featuring Bartlett pear juice, prickly pear syrup and desert honey.

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Four Seasons Resort The Biltmore Santa Barbara’s cocktail, the So Cal Strawberry Fizz, used multiple local fruits and mint, including some from the Hotel’s Chef Garden.

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Four Seasons Residence Club Aviara, North San Diego made a cocktail called Citrus Tangerina (left), using agave nectar and limes grown on a tree adjacent to their kid’s pool. Four Seasons Resort and Club Dallas at Las Colinas’ cocktail (right) is appropriately named Texas Wildflowers and includes wildflower honey, mission fig liquor and fig preserves.

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Four Seasons Resort Palm Beach made a cocktail called Radius that is made with mint, hibiscus tea, Florida orange juice and homemade mango-infused vodka.

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Tangerine Blossom from Four Seasons Hotel Westlake Village, California, is created by mixing homemade Tancello (like Lemoncello, but made with tangerines instead of lemons), with lavender syrup and fresh tangerines.

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Four Seasons Resort Hualalai at Historic Ka’upulehu’s Koa Wai cocktail features star fruit, lemon, basil and ginger.

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Some 36 Four Seasons hotels in North, Central and South America were challenged to create a cocktail using only locally sourced ingredients. Limited only by their imaginations and a 100-mile radius, the hotel mixologists put their own spin on a 100 Mile Cocktail. Four Seasons hotels in Los Angeles’ Beverly Wilshire, Dallas, Lana’i, Maui, Jackson Hole, Miami, Palm Beach, San Diego, Santa Barbara, Scottsdale and Westlake Village all created vodka-based cocktails. Also vodka-based was the Kōa Wai cocktail from Hualalai, which tied for first place overall with Boston’s creation—the Nor’Easter, a whisky drink.

For the full recipe of each of these 100 Mile Cocktails, be sure to visit our Facebook page and view the photo album dedicated to these creative concoctions.

Browse our photo galleries by cocktail type for all 37 of the 100 Mile Cocktails.

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Or, find a cocktail by participating hotel:

Atlanta
Austin
Baltimore
Boston
Buenos Aires
Chicago (Four Seasons Chicago)
Chicago (The Ritz-Carlton)
Costa Rica
Dallas
Denver
Hawaii, Hualalai
Hawaii, Lana‘i at Manele Bay
Hawaii, Maui
Jackson Hole
Las Vegas
Los Angeles (Four Seasons Los Angeles)
Los Angeles (Beverly Wilshire) (submitted two cocktails)
Los Angeles Area (Westlake Village)
Miami
Nevis
New York
Palm Beach
Palo Alto, Silicon Valley
Philadelphia
Punta Mita, Mexico
San Diego, Aviara (Residence Rental)
San Francisco
Santa Barbara
Scottsdale
Seattle
St. Louis
Toronto
Vail
Vancouver
Washington, DC
Whistler

100 Mile Cocktails: The Vodka Drinks of Four Seasons