Empirical Olive - 750 ml
The savory, elegant answer to the modern Dirty Martini. A French wheat base worked with Manzanilla and Gordal olives from Spain, layered with olive oils for a smooth, herbal, softly bitter profile.
Category
Botanical spirit
ABV
36%
Volume
750 ml
Ways to drink it
Empirical Olive Martini
11:1 dry Martini on Olive — savory, vegetal, no compromise.
Empirical Olive Negroni
Negroni with Olive replacing the gin — vegetal, savory, weighted.
Dirty Ranch Water
Ranch Water with Olive — salty, bright, summery.
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.
