Rating 93
Produced In France
ABV 18%
Availability Year Round
Price $35.00 
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Reviewed 2025-12-02

Kota Pandan Liqueur Review

Over the last decade, globetrotting bartender Nico de Soto (Mace; Danico Paris) became famous for using pandan — a fragrant, vanilla-like plant from South East Asia — in his avant garde cocktails. With his release this year of Kota pandan liqueur, it’s become easier to bartend like de Soto. Created in partnership with Gabriel Boudier, a family liquorist from Dijon, France, you’ve never quite experienced a liqueur like this. The aroma is overwhelmingly vanilla but there’s a certain grassy-like quality as well. On the palate, it’s unmistakably cereal milk, Fruity Pebbles perhaps, with an underlying nuttiness. While fun to drink on its own, this one soars in cocktails.

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Kota Pandan Liqueur
Over the last decade, globetrotting bartender Nico de Soto (Mace; Danico Paris) became famous for using pandan — a fragrant, vanilla-like plant from South East Asia — in his avant garde cocktails. With his release this year of Kota pandan liqueur, it’s become easier to bartend like de Soto. Created in partnership with Gabriel Boudier, a family liquorist from Dijon, France, you’ve never quite experienced a liqueur like this. The aroma is overwhelmingly vanilla but there’s a certain grassy-like quality as well. On the palate, it’s unmistakably cereal milk, Fruity Pebbles perhaps, with an underlying nuttiness. While fun to drink on its own, this one soars in cocktails.

Reviewed On: 12-02-2025
93
POINTS
Kota Pandan Liqueur
Over the last decade, globetrotting bartender Nico de Soto (Mace; Danico Paris) became famous for using pandan — a fragrant, vanilla-like plant from South East Asia — in his avant garde cocktails. With his release this year of Kota pandan liqueur, it’s become easier to bartend like de Soto. Created in partnership with Gabriel Boudier, a family liquorist from Dijon, France, you’ve never quite experienced a liqueur like this. The aroma is overwhelmingly vanilla but there’s a certain grassy-like quality as well. On the palate, it’s unmistakably cereal milk, Fruity Pebbles perhaps, with an underlying nuttiness. While fun to drink on its own, this one soars in cocktails.

Reviewed On: 12-02-2025