What comes to your mind when you think of blackberry cream? For me, the first thing was a blackberry pie, I guess. Not too much comes to mind when I think of blackberries honestly. However, being a tech kinda guy, a certain lil' piece of cellular technology wormed its way into my nostalgia-driven neurons.

The BlackBerry, an early smartphone with a lil keyboard, was created by Research in Motion (AKA RIM). I recall it being a bit of a representation of cool-ness back when I was in middle school when I rocked an LG Cosmos (with a sliding keyboard). Considering what we had to work with a name, we created a cocktail for Tomasello's blackberry cream wine with the term flip phone in mind, and put this lil cream flip together in honor of where we've been and where we're going.

A deliciously creamy wine on its own, this wine combined with an egg yolk (oh my, what? yes, because it's a flip. get it?) is greatly accentuated. Egg yolk can often bring a little dryness to a drink, but adding something with that lactose component can really even things out. We also opted for a honey syrup to see what we could do with sweetness in another direction, and we were completely blown away with what we'd created!

There were 2 cream wine cocktails we made during this particular stream, and I'm starting to believe that you can't go wrong, but so far that remains to be seen.