The 8 Best Cherries For garnish (2023 reviews)

The luxardo original maraschino cherries cherry for garnish's high-end materials makes sure that it ages well with use. These cherries take the drink from a no frills blank-mart experience to a Versace-quality cocktail. This 'juice' is much more elegant, exquisite and adult like the Luxardo syrup and like the Luxardos, will do your Manhattan justice, but even more so. It is the classic taste with a much thicker syrup and powerful flavor. The cherries taste great, the syrup is thick and the jar is the perfect size to last a month or two, but not much longer.

These cherries are dark and luxuriously deliciously sweet. It can be used in homemade ice cream and even in greek yogurt for breakfast. The Maraschinos are artificially dyed and are in a watery sugary colored base. These are simply the perfect touch to create a delicious cocktail, and have become a must addition to home-made bourbon drinks.

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Amazing cherries for bourbon, ice cream or just a spoon
Perfect in your manhattan or in any cocktail
Great for a good bourbon or cocktail

Best For Mixed drinks: Tillen farms Cherry For garnish

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The tillen farms cherry for garnish is capable of outshining several other cherry featured in this list in overall features for the price point. These are big, amazing tasting cherries. They taste (and look) like real cherries and are naturally sweet, not saccharine sweet. Cherries provide 5 percent of the RDA of copper and manganese per cup. The syrup is sweet and therefore, if the cherries are sour to begin with, they are no longer sour. These are the ones to make your cocktails with class. They are dark, taste much more like cherries than the overly sweet maraschinos. It is best for brandy old fashioned sweets.

Why We Like This:

Makes a tasty old fashioned and are a nice touch in cocktail gifts
Not too potent, sugary or syrupy
Perfect for manhattans and other cocktails
Very high quality and great taste

Best With An Old Fashioned: Collins Cherry For garnish

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Compared with other cherry in this category, the collins cherry for garnish has a convenient design. These gourmet cherries give an original cherry flavor to your favorite tipple. It is best sweet cherry for cocktails, moxtails, or dessert topping. They have about half the amount of cherries and lots of juice. They are dark and sweet without being cloyingly so.

These stemmed cherries are perfect for garnishing cocktails, mocktails, ice cream sundaes, and more. The jars come half empty. It's really really tasty, perfect for cocktails. It is made from sweet, delicious fruit and preserved in syrups made with real sugar for cherries that add extra punch to manhattans, old fashioneds, and other classic cocktails.

Why We Like This:

A key ingredient for perfect manhattans and old fashions
Good brand reputation

Best With extra Juice: Royal harvest Cherry For garnish

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If you often find yourself scrambling for appropriate and satisfactory cherry, royal harvest cherry for garnish is your solution. The Royal Harvest is a lot closer to fresh cherry tasting. These cherries are not only made from natural ingredients without artificial coloring and flavoring, but they taste amazing. They are dark purple and they are delicious. The syrup is also very good in the drinks.

There are approximately 110 cherries in this half gallon container. It is made with cane sugar, free from artificial flavors, non-gmo, gluten free. The residual juice is an awesome kitchen resource. These are deeper than a regular maraschino cherry, more like black cherry flavor. The candy making process is not hard, just time consuming and one must be careful in getting the water/sugar fondant just right.

Why We Like This:

Delicious cherries, make great desert and excellent cocktails
Good flavor and good juice as well
Ingredients are cherries, water, sugar, fruit and vegetable concentrates (color), citric acid, natural flavor
Very delicious version of the classic maraschino

Best For bourbon: Traverse City whiskey Co Cherry For garnish

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Traverse City Whiskey Co has been making great cherry for years, thanks to a combination of clever design and appropriate materials. There is no better tasting cherries for your cocktails or desserts. The thick syrup adds a great sweetness and cherry pop to the drink too. They work well as a garnish in cocktails and in desserts. The syrup makes a fantastic ice cream topping. These are a bit firmer, with a taste that is comparable. They are also great over vanilla bean ice cream.

Why We Like This:

Great flavor and finish for a favorite cocktail
Slightly bigger and sweeter than the luxardo cherries
Perfect addition to the old fashion cocktail,flavor is good
Adds great flavor to the drinks

Best For lovely presentation: Traverse City whiskey Co. Cherry For garnish

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Traverse City Whiskey Co. is known for creating pragmatic and minimalist cherry for people on the go, and its line of traverse city whiskey co. cherry for garnish definitely falls in line with that reputation. These cherries are way more delicious than the standard maraschino cherries you can get in the grocery store. They taste great in cocktails of course, but are also wonderful on desserts such as cheesecake and ice cream.

The amount of syrup is just right, and it's a great consistency. It has a much more complex and intense cherry flavor. It is so deep, it's almost black.

Why We Like This:

Would make a great addition to a gift or stocking stuffer
Sweet, all natural ingredients, great for desserts
Delicious way to level-up a cocktail
Make an exponentially better garnish for cheesecakes than canned cherry pie filling ever would

Best For classic Manhattan: Sable & Rosenfeld Cherry For garnish

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The sable & rosenfeld cherry for garnish is capable of outshining several other cherry featured in this list in overall features for the price point. Sable & Rosenfeld Cocktail Garnishes are Kosher, and Fat Free. These are much more tasty than regular maraschino cherries which tend to be too sweet.

Why We Like This:

Lot of satisfied buyers
One of the new comers and featured product

Best giftable: Woodford reserve Cherry For garnish

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The woodford reserve cherry for garnish is capable of outshining several other cherry featured in this list in overall features in its price range. These are perfect for an old-fashioned cocktail. They give a sharp look to the drink, but more importantly provide a nice, subtle cherry flavor when muddled into the drink. They have the stems for easy finding and picking out of your drink. The jar contains about 25 cherries. It is used for making "old fashioned" cocktail, and topping for ice cream sundae. The syrup is excellent over ice cream. They are not exceptionally larger than regular cherries.

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