September has come ‘round and I am bursting with enthusiasm.  So in that state of mind, Season 4 of Lush Life - The Classic Collection will commence next Tuesday . 

I’m Susan Schwartz, your drinking companion, and this is Lush Life Podcast, every week we are inspired to live life one cocktail at a time by the best in the industry.  

The Classic Collection...hmm what’s that I hear you asking yourself? Well, Season 4 is bringing it all down to basics.  Why you may ask? 

I’ve been busy all summer rereading the classics - as in my essential New York Times Book of Cocktails, Robert Simonson’s wonderful book A Proper Drink, all about the revival of the modern cocktail craze, and my very own signed copy of David Wondrich’s Esquire Drinks.

These great minds have reminded me that if you don’t know your classics how can you move forward. As a layman and I mean layman in cocktail making, it’s time to go back and master the old-fashioned, martini, negroni before purchasing a centrifuge to make the Boys to  the Yard like Liquid Intellect!

So what does this mean for our season ahead? Our guest are still the greats of the drinking world. Still the movers and shakers of the industry! Don’t you worry?

I’ll just be mixing in a little more history to the classic cocktail of the week and you might even see some video instruction along the way on alushlifemanual.com.

But don’t think I am stuck in the past.  There are so many new things happening in the Lush Life world that I can’t wait to tell you about, but you will just have to wait until next week!

I can’t leave you without a cocktail of the week - so as the last days of summer are fading away here in London  the most famous of all summer cocktails seemed to be the perfect choice.

The Aperol Spritz - whose history we’ll go into in a later episode.

Ingredients

• 3 oz Prosecco
• 2 oz Aperol
• 1 oz  Soda
• One green olive

Method

• Mix all the ingredients into a wine glass with ice and stir.
• Garnish with an olive if you want it really Venetian. 

We’re talking classic here!

You’ll find this recipe, plus all the cocktails of the week at ALushLifeManual.com, where you’ll also find all the ingredients in our shop