The Best Cocktail Cherries Roundup - 14 Brands Tasted, 1 Winner - Drinkhacker

If there’s a more iconic and versatile cocktail garnish than the cherry, I don’t know about it — and you can keep your “twist” to yourself. When it comes to an edible treat at the bottom of your glass, there’s really nothing better than a high-grade cocktail cherry.Like all cocktail ingredients, the cherry has gone through some tough times and come out the other end as a craft ingredient. You can thank the more widespread availability of amarena and marasca cherries for that — these are smaller, sour cherries that offer more nuance than the ultra-sweet, garden-variety maraschinos that bobbed in your Shirley Temple.The market is flooded with cherries these days, and you’ll find you have tons of obscure terminology to learn if you really want to master the category. Here’s a quick primer on what’s what:Marasca – The Marasca is a variety of theMorello cherry which is native to Croatia. Small and sour, these are commonly preserved in a dense sugar syrup which sweetens them up a lot. Marasc...