Handcrafted beverages to bring a meaningful touch
San Luis Obispo
Travel area: Within 100 miles See details
Vanessa Share
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Operating out of the Central Coast of California, Spirits & Nature Cocktails offers a range of wedding packages inspired by the Central Coasts bountiful produce, botanics, and culture. Mixologist Vanessa Share brings an artistic twist to your celebration staple and has decades of experience, including the role of Bar Manager and Curator at Post Ranch Inn, Big Sur’s most sought-after accommodation, since 1997.
Vanessa has created a menu of original cocktails and mixers, using fresh pressed local citrus and fruits, plus handcrafted syrups, using ingredients sourced from local farmers’ markets, home gardens, and wild harvesting on her 5 acre homestead. Vanessa’s service includes setup and breakdown of the bar, cocktail, beer, wine, and non-alcohol pouring throughout the event, provides all bar tools needed and can recruit bartenders to serve your guests depending on the size of your event. As you will need to provide the alcohol, Vanessa will assist you in selecting wines, beers, and liquors for your signature beverages. Together, you will discover which recipes best suit you and your guests, and will add a unique one of a kind touch to your occasion.
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Signature Cocktails
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Vanessa Share
Owner
Vanessa began her career in bartending in 1990, and in 1997, took the position of managing and curating the bar and beverage program at Sierra Mar Restaurant, Post Ranch Inn is where she developed her passion for handcrafted cocktails and her career in Mixology. During that time, she was asked to design and operate cocktail menus for celebrity weddings on and off-site.
Being raised in Big Sur, California, surrounded by nature provided the foundation for a healthy and clean approach to crafting beverages. Vanessa takes pride in the ingredients that go into the cocktails to create fresh, unique products
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Christine O
5.0
10/12/2021
We very highly recommend Vanessa for wedding bartending services! A+++++!
My partner and I hired Vanessa to bartend/be the mixologist at our micro-wedding and loved working with h...
er. We originally reached out to Vanessa because Nature and Spirits specializes in cocktails/beverages that use hyper-local ingredients like syrups that incorporate herbs that were foraged or grown right in Big Sur; we loved that "super Big Sur" vibe. And indeed the drinks that she helped us come up with were a huge hit with our guests and were incredibly delicious.
But Vanessa was also just really easy to work with. She sent us a potential bar menu, helped us go back and forth while we were settling on drinks options, and helped us figure out how much alcohol we would need for our group. She even placed the order with a local liquor store and picked everything up.
During the wedding she was a total charmer who everyone loved chatting with and her set up/breakdown was professional and seamless.
It's also worth mentioning that she was easy to communicate with regarding our COVID safety protocols.
Can't recommend Vanessa highly enough - she was great and our family is still talking about her drinks! Thanks, Vanessa!!
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San Luis Obispo
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Travel area: Within 100 miles
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