Dirty Sue Cocktail Olives
Dirty Sue Cocktail Olives are the garnish half of the brand that bottled the first olive juice made for cocktails — grade-A Spanish green olives from Spain's Sevilla region, packed in their twice-filtered brine in a 16 oz jar. Founder Eric 'ET' Tecosky came up with Dirty Sue behind the bar at Jones Hollywood in Los Angeles, after a busy shift of cracking open olive jars for round after round of dirty martinis and finding the brine already drained; the cocktail olives are built to sit in the glass alongside that brine. They are gluten-free. It is available to order online at Del Mesa Liquor.
- Size: 16 oz jar
- Olives: Grade-A Spanish green olives, Sevilla region, Spain
- Dietary: Gluten-free
- Storage: Refrigerate after opening; keep olives covered in their brine
- Origin: Spain, by Dirty Sue, Los Angeles, USA
Built by a Bartender, For the Glass
Dirty Sue was built by bartenders for bartenders and home enthusiasts, on the idea that garnishes and brines should be made for drinks rather than left over from a grocery jar. Tecosky tracked down a California family operation importing barrels of grade-A Spanish green olives, and Dirty Sue's brine is the twice-filtered juice of olives from Spain's Sevilla region — these are the olives that brine belongs to. Stock the rest of the garnish shelf from our cocktail ingredients and wider spirits range.
Tasting Notes
Firm, briny and clean — classic green olive savoriness with the balanced salt of the twice-filtered brine, made to season the drink as it garnishes it.
How to Enjoy
They are the garnish the brand specifies for its Three-Way Martini: equal parts London dry gin, Dirty Sue Premium Olive Juice and dry vermouth, shaken or stirred, double strained into a chilled glass and finished with a Dirty Sue Cocktail Olive. They are just as useful skewered on a Bloody Mary, dropped into a michelada, or set out on a cheese board alongside the bottles from our rare and top shelf collection.
Frequently Asked Questions
Where do the olives come from?
They are grade-A Spanish green olives from Spain's Sevilla region, imported in barrels by a California family operation — the same olives behind Dirty Sue's twice-filtered olive brine.
How big is the jar and is it gluten-free?
The jar holds 16 oz and the olives are gluten-free. Refrigerate after opening and keep the olives covered in their brine.
What drinks are they for?
Dirty martinis first of all — including Dirty Sue's own Three-Way Martini — plus Bloody Marys, micheladas and cheese boards.
Add Dirty Sue Cocktail Olives to your bar from Del Mesa Liquor in San Diego, CA — the olive the dirty martini was waiting for.