Empirical The Plum, I Suppose - 750 ml
The comforting marzipan depth of plum kernels, brightened by the floral notes of marigold. Inspired by founder Lars Williams' favorite dessert.
Category
Botanical spirit
ABV
32%
Volume
750 ml
Ways to drink it
Plum Paloma
Marzipan and grapefruit, with a Mezcal Sacrvm spine.
Negroni, I Suppose
Lillet and Suze swap in around The Plum — a Negroni in disguise.
Plum Soda
Plum, ice, soda — and a knife.
Iced Coffee, I Suppose
Espresso, Plum, tonic — a long drink for a long afternoon.
Harry Plum Fizz
A Ramos riff: Plum, cream, egg white, orange blossom, a long shake.
Marrakesh Express
Equal parts Plum and vermouth, orange blossom on top.
Plum & Cookies
A White Russian rebuilt around cookie milk.
Egg Nogging
Apple juice, Plum, spice and aerated whites — holiday, dialed.
Kernel & Bean
Plum kernel, port, coffee, cream — a digestif you eat with a spoon.
Baltra Martini
Soka and Plum side by side, absinthe rinse, citrus lift.
Plumtini
A frozen, glass-cold Plum martini — let it sit an hour.
Plum Club
Raspberry shrub, dry vermouth, egg white — a Clover Club via Plum.
Plum Manhattan
Plum, Cocchi Americano and a whisky kicker — a half-Manhattan reframed.
Plum & Lemonade
Plum, raspberries, lemonade — for the porch.
Plum & Citrus
Plum poured over a cold white-grapefruit beer.
Annin Nai
Plum, osmanthus, ginger almond milk — a dessert in a glass.
Other suggested serves
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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.
