ZOYKA: New Lilac Negro Cocktail

Drink inspired by the romance by A. Vertinsky, which he dedicated to the "queen of the screen" - actress Vera Kholodnaya.

Where have you gone? Who kisses your hands now? How’s faring your Chinese – your small boy-friend named Lee? Well, probably a Portuguese was after that your lover, Or whom you joined that time a Malaysian might be.

Last time we met I saw you very near. A car whirled you away into a city jungle. I have a dream that in a gambling-del of Rio A lilac Negro helps you with a mantle.

This work is a dream, everything that happens there is a figment of the imagination. Despite the fact that San Francisco appears in the poem, Vertinsky himself had not yet been to America, while Vera dreamed of acting in Hollywood.

Vertinsky was in love with Vera, idolized her and her art. She couldn't reciprocate. The thought of unrequited love burdened Vertinsky and inspired him to write the romance "Lilac Negro".

The lyrical hero from the poem, suspects the love of his life of a "close connection" with the Chinese Li, the Portuguese, the Malay and the purple Negro. In the format of that time, communication with such characters was something extremely low for a decent girl. And the final point of this "accusation" becomes a lilac* Negro with a mantle.

Grapefruit distillate, like the bitterness of resentment and the astringency of recognition. Berries, like that desirability, the attractor of the girl with whom Vertinsky was in love.