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Our Story

We believe the

ritual is

part of

the pleasure.

Nacrée was founded on a single conviction: that cocktail culture deserves the same care and provenance as fine wine. Every bottle is an invitation to slow down.

Est. 2022

We wanted to give people the experience of a great bar — without the bar. No fuss. Just the drink, exactly as intended.

— Sophie & Marcus, Founders

Nacrée began in a London kitchen in 2022. Two friends — a bartender and a food scientist — frustrated that premium ready-to-drink cocktails barely existed in Europe. Everything on the shelf was either too sweet, too simple, or missing the theatre.

They spent eighteen months developing the process: cold-distilling base spirits, sourcing fruit at peak season, and partnering with a small spirits producer in the Basque Country to get the balance exactly right.

The name — from the French for "pearlescent" — captures what they were after: a lustre, a quality you can see and feel before you even taste it. Each cocktail in the range is designed to be as beautiful poured into a glass as it is to drink.

Craft

Every recipe goes through dozens of iterations. We don't compromise on balance — if the acid is off, we start again.

Provenance

We know where every ingredient comes from. Blood oranges from Sicily. Cardamom from Kerala. Agave from Jalisco.

Ritual

Opening a bottle of Nacrée should feel like something. That's why we obsess over packaging as much as flavour.

Integrity

No artificial flavours. No cutting corners. We'd rather charge a fair price and do it right than compromise the drink.

Co-Founder & Creative Director

Sophie Laurent

Former head bartender at Claridge's and Noma. Sophie leads the flavour and creative direction of every Nacrée cocktail, from concept through to the final product.

Co-Founder & Head of Production

Marcus Webb

Food scientist and former R&D lead at Diageo. Marcus developed Nacrée's cold-distillation process and manages all supplier relationships and production.

How We Make It

Four steps.

No shortcuts.

Step 01

Source

We work directly with small-scale growers and distillers across Europe and beyond. Every ingredient is selected at peak season.

Step 02

Distil

Our cold-distillation process preserves the volatile aromatic compounds that heat destroys — that's where the complexity comes from.

Step 03

Blend

Each cocktail is blended by hand in small batches, tasted against a reference standard, and approved before bottling.

Step 04

Bottle

Hand-filled, sealed, and labelled at our partner facility in the Basque Country. Every bottle carries a batch number.

Small batch. Every time.

2022

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Premium ready-to-pour cocktails. Crafted with intention. Made to savour.

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