Connecticut Magazine: Drink Trend Ice is the New Star of Creative Cocktails

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BY ELIZABETH KEYSER

At Ballo in Mohegan Sun, the most popular cocktail is the Limonata (pictured above). Spirit Italian vodka and San Pellegrino sparkling lemonade is graced with a sphere of frozen blood-orange juice. It’s meant to melt. “As it melts, it adds flavor, sweetens the drink and changes its color,” says Luke Martin, a manager. One downside: The cocktail tastes so good, it’s hard to drink slowly. And that blood orange cube melting in the empty glass? Guests crunch on it—?while waiting for their second Limonata.

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