Empirical Cilantro - 750 ml
A visit to the summer garden, setting forth the verdant aroma of fresh cilantro. Built on a base of light French wheat showcasing a single botanical: bright, verdant, refreshing cilantro.
Category
Botanical spirit
ABV
38%
Volume
750 ml
Ways to drink it
Cilantro Martini
Empirical Cilantro's signature serve — Martini-shaped, herb-forward.
Cilantro Margarita
Margarita with Cilantro spirit — fresh, herbaceous, summer.
Cilantro White Negroni
White Negroni on Cilantro — gentian, mango, Italicus bergamot.
Cilantro Last Word
Prohibition Last Word, with Cilantro replacing the gin.
Cilantro Penicillin
Penicillin restaged — Cilantro + Centerbe + ginger-honey + Ayuuk float.
Cilantro & Soda
Two-ingredient highball — the cleanest Cilantro tasting.
Cilantro Sour
Cilantro, lime, agave — three lines, all herb.
Cilantro Beer
Two ounces of Cilantro poured into a cold light beer.
Other suggested serves
Have a favorite serve with this spirit? Tag @costaspirits when you pour it.
From the Journal
5 min
Empirical Spirits: koji, vacuum, and the right to ignore categories
Lars Williams and Mark Emil Hermansen built a distillery that refuses to call itself a gin company. Here's how they did it.
4 min
Empirical Cilantro, one botanical, two camps, one polarizing spirit
Empirical's single-botanical cilantro spirit is now distributed in Florida by Costa Spirits. 38% ABV on a light French-wheat base, built for bartenders who want to serve something that splits the room, in a good way.
5 min
Empirical Spirits in Florida, eighteen months in, the case for category-refusing distillates
Costa Spirits has been the Florida distributor for Empirical since late 2024, the Copenhagen distillery from Noma alums Lars Williams and Mark Emil Hermansen. Ayuuk, Soka, The Plum, and the rest of the line have settled into the rooms we expected: cocktail bars that build menus around ingredients, not categories.
