Bittersweet rather than sweet. What sugar there is comes from the red grape, white grape and aronia it is built on, and from pomegranate molasses. None is added, and gentian, wormwood and quassia keep the finish dry.

How does it differ from the Fresh?

Melati make two. The Classic is the darker and heavier of them, leading on red fruit, raw cacao and warm spice. The Fresh is built on watermelon, guava and lime and drinks lighter.

What do I mix it with?

Tonic or soda over ice with a strip of orange peel. It stands in where you would reach for a red vermouth or an amaro, so it also holds up in a Negroni-style build.

Melati Drinks Classic (500 mL × 6)

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Bittersweet and herbal, with cacao and pomegranate molasses under the bitter roots.

$249.99 $2.46 / fl oz

Flavor

Fresh$249.99
ClassicOut of stock

How many

One bottleOut of stock
Pack of 6Out of stock

Bittersweet
Red fruit
Raw cacao
Bitter orange
Clove and ginger
Dry finish

Standardized pour · 3 fl oz (90 mL)

Every bottle in Aperitif / Digestif is measured to the same pour, so any two can be read against each other.

Total Sugars

9 g

Calories

45 kcal

About Classic

A botanical tonic in the Far East bitters tradition, made in small batches in Singapore and formulated by an Ayurvedic specialist. Bittersweet, rich and herbal.

Twenty-one plants go in cold rather than boiled, which is what keeps the lighter aromatics legible next to the heavy ones — peppermint, basil and hibiscus against clove, cardamom and star anise. The bitterness is doing real work: gentian, wormwood and quassia are all classic bittering roots, and cacao and carob sit underneath them to give the middle some weight. The sweetness is not added. It comes from the red grape, white grape and aronia the whole thing is built on, and from pomegranate molasses. Damiana, goji berry and sencha tea are in the blend as well.

Pour it over ice with soda, or into anything that would take a red vermouth. Shake gently first; the sediment belongs there. Contains no alcohol.

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The details

Tasting & Pairing

Nose: Goji and chokeberry over hibiscus and raw cacao
Palate: Rich and bittersweet, with clove and ginger behind the red fruit, running to a dry finish of bitter orange peel and sencha tea
Pair: Aperitif, Aged cheese, Dark chocolate, Charcuterie

Pouring it

Serving comes from product and keeping from the container, not from the bottle

Serve: One part Melati to two parts tonic, over ice in a wine glass, with a slice of orange.
Store: Cool and out of direct sunlight. Shake gently before pouring; the sediment is natural. Refrigerate after opening and finish within six weeks.

Key ingredients

In the bottle: Basil, Bitter Orange, Cacao, Cardamom, Clove, Coriander, Damiana, Gentian, Ginger, Hibiscus, Peppermint, Sencha, Star Anise, Wormwood

Full specifications and nutrition

What it is

Alcohol: 0.0%Measured, and stated to one decimal place.
Process: Never AlcoholizedIt was never alcoholic, so nothing was removed.
Origin: Singapore
Certifications: Vegan-Friendly

3,000 mL in total.

Nutrition

Calories	15 kcal
Total Fat	0 g
Sodium	20 mg
Total Carbohydrate	4 g
Dietary Fiber	0 g
Total Sugars	3 g
Includes Added Sugars	0 g
Protein	0 g

Ingredients: Water, natural fruit concentrates [red grape, white grape, aronia], natural botanical extracts [star anise, coriander, gentian, hibiscus, bitter orange, damiana, basil, peppermint, goji berry, clove, ginger, cacao, sencha tea, wormwood, cardamom, carob, quassia], molasses [pomegranate], natural flavors, xanthan gum, malic acid.

About Melati Drinks

Everything from this producer

Singapore botanical tonics, cold-extracted from Southeast Asian recipes that Lorin Winata traced back to her family's farmland in Bali.

Lorin Winata was working in venture capital in Singapore, in a job built around client dinners and evening events, and kept finding that the non-alcoholic end of a drinks list came down to water or something very sweet.

What she did about it started at her family's ancestral farmland in Jatiluwih, in Bali, where tonic recipes had been kept on palm leaves. She spent roughly two years on the formulation with a food scientist and an Ayurvedic specialist, working down from a shortlist of more than seventy ingredients traditionally used in Asian tonics to the ones that ended up in the bottle.

Melati is the Indonesian name for white jasmine. The blends are cold-extracted botanical by botanical over several weeks rather than boiled together, then hand-blended in Singapore in small batches.

Producer: Melati Drinks
Based in: Singapore, Singapore
Founded: 2019
Founder: Lorin Winata
Sizes: 500 mL
Site: melatidrinks.com

Others worth knowing

Common questions

How sweet is it?: Bittersweet rather than sweet. What sugar there is comes from the red grape, white grape and aronia it is built on, and from pomegranate molasses. None is added, and gentian, wormwood and quassia keep the finish dry.
How does it differ from the Fresh?: Melati make two. The Classic is the darker and heavier of them, leading on red fruit, raw cacao and warm spice. The Fresh is built on watermelon, guava and lime and drinks lighter.
What do I mix it with?: Tonic or soda over ice with a strip of orange peel. It stands in where you would reach for a red vermouth or an amaro, so it also holds up in a Negroni-style build.

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Love Melati! It has aided me in my health recovery journey. Special shout out to Kim who has been so patient and helpful to me 🥰
Yuting · wrote this on the 500 mL · May 29, 2026

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