Yes Cocktail Co. Dried Lemon Wheels

Yes Cocktail Company works out of Paso Robles, on the central California coast, making the parts of a drink that usually come from a plastic bottle: orgeat, cocktail cherries, dried citrus for the rim.

Their stated position, printed on the orgeat bottle, is that they have been focused on locally sourced, entirely natural ingredients from the very first batch, simply because the best cocktails require the best ingredients. The ingredient lists bear it out. The dried orange is orange. The dried lemon is dried lemon. The orgeat is water, cane sugar, almonds, almond bitters and orange blossom water.

It is a small range and an unglamorous one. Nobody photographs the orgeat. It is the bottle that decides whether the drink works.