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These Complete a Spirit

Avec, a new juice-based soft drink, comes in five flavors and pairs well with tequila, gin or vodka.

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Tonic water and soda water can easily outfit the bar when fizz is required. But a new collection of juice-based soft drinks, designed as cocktail mixers, is worth adding to the setup. Avec, a Brooklyn-based company, was created by Alex Doman, an English food and beverage consultant, and Denetrias Charlemagne, an advertising executive, with the goal of keeping sugar low and ingredients pure and simple. There are five soda flavors: grapefruit and pomelo, with black pepper, vanilla and smoked salt; ginger, with pineapple and lime juices, agave, molasses and allspice; yuzu and lime, with lemongrass; jalapeño and blood orange, with calamansi, lime and smoked salt; and hibiscus and pomegranate, with lime and cinnamon. Tequila, gin and vodka are the most compatible with the sodas.

Avec, $20 for a six-pack of 8-ounce cans, avecdrinks.com.

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Florence Fabricant is a food and wine writer. She writes the weekly Front Burner and Off the Menu columns, as well as the Pairings column, which appears alongside the monthly wine reviews. She has also written 12 cookbooks. More about Florence Fabricant

A version of this article appears in print on  , Section D, Page 3 of the New York edition with the headline: To Mix: These Complete A Spirit With a Fizz. Order Reprints | Today’s Paper | Subscribe

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