Sip in model at 30,000 toes with Air France’s new premier cocktail assortment

Since its founding in 1933, Air France has been thorough in bringing the nation’s synonymy with class and magnificence to the skies. The corporate has seen famend designers craft the airline’s interiors – Charlotte Perriand, Andrée Putman and Jean Prouvé amongst them – in addition to smooth cabin crew uniforms designed by Spanish couturier Cristóbal Balenciaga and Christian Dior within the Sixties, and by Nina Ricci, Christian Lacroix and Olivier Rousteing in more moderen years. In the meantime, its in-flight menu is crafted by a roster of esteemed cooks together with Jean-Charles Brédas, Jérôme Banctel, Nina Metayer, Olivier Perret and Jofrane Dailly.

Now, Air France has partnered with chef-mixologist Matthias Giroud to design a brand new assortment of alcoholic and non-alcoholic cocktails, served solely in its La Première cabin and impressed by the corporate’s core values: ‘class, pleasure and respect’.

Air France’s new signature cocktail assortment by Matthias Giroud

To seize such intangibles and package deal them up right into a signature cocktail will not be a straightforward feat. Having began his profession on the age of 16, in Toulouse, on the Papagayo bar, Giroud went on to develop quite a few bar ideas across the globe, together with co-founding L’Alchimiste Group in 2019. His cocktail creations are impressed by his travels, and in his workshop, he retains a group of over 150 flavours, together with herbs, flowers, and peppers from all over the world.

When creating the gathering of three new Air France cocktails, Giroud began by specializing in French elements to ship genuine flavours that tightrope between familiarity and modernity.

‘Belle Époque’ is a bitter and zesty alcoholic cocktail, a reinterpretation of the negroni with orange hydrosol; ‘Parfum de France’ is a candy and fruity low-alcohol cocktail, impressed by the world of wine and that includes raspberry liqueur and a touch of verbena; and ‘L’Éveil’ is a tangy and spicy alcohol-free cocktail, constructed from cranberry juice infused with mint, lime juice, fragrant leaf bouquet and ginger.

The gathering is offered to La Première visitors in a custom-made field, and glasses designed to boost the style.

Alongside the brand new tipples, La Première presents an onboard eating menu crafted by triple Michelin-starred chef Arnaud Lallement and World Pastry Chef and Meilleur Ouvrier de France, Angelo Musa. The wedding of French mixology and gastronomy is an ideal distraction to hurry up any long-haul flight.