The holiday season is quickly approaching. To make sure you’re on your A game, we’ve rounded up 10 cocktail recipes that are guaranteed to wow any guest.
From summery serves that hark back to warmer days and festive twists perfect for getting into the spirit of the season, there’s a cocktail recipe here for every kind of mood – and all of them can be prepared from the comfort of your own home.
Looking for more inspiration? Check out our roundups from August and September.
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Tony Vega at Ginza has created a concoction that embodies the power and passion of the god of fire, as part of the London Bourbon Experience.
Ingredients:
Method: Combine all the ingredients in a cocktail shaker with ice, shake vigorously, and double strain into a chilled-dome copper coupe glass. Garnish with chilli strings and flash string.
Tony Vega at Block Soho combines Kentucky Straight Bourbon with the herbal allure of Yellow Chartreuse, lemon and apricot, in this cocktail made for the London Bourbon Experience.
Ingredients:
Method: Combine all the ingredients in a cocktail shaker with ice, shake vigorously and double strain into a chilled Old Fashioned glass. Garnish with a Maraschino cherry.
Another London Bourbon Experience creation – this time from Rui Costa at Hide Below – is a whiskey highball that’s greater than the sum of its parts.
Ingredients:
Method: Stir all the ingredients together, then strain into a highball glass over a long ice block. Garnish with a lime twist.
Got the winter blues? Then imagine you’re holidaying on the Mediterranean coast with this zesty, thirst-quenching tipple.
Ingredients:
Method: In a boston shaker, lightly muddle fresh basil leaves with freshly squeezed lime juice. Add Espanita Grapefruit Tequila, Aperol, fresh grapefruit juice and a handful of ice. Shake. Strain through a fine mesh strainer into a cocktail glass filled with fresh ice. Add a small splash of club soda to finish the drink and a couple of dashes of grapefruit bitters.
Edwards 1902 has shaken up a spooky Halloween-inspired Martini with its potato vodka.
Ingredients:
Method: Put ice in the shaker and then add all the liquid ingredients. Shake for 20 seconds and pour into a Martini glass. Garnish with the blueberry grub.
Popi Sevastou, bar manager at Nolanverse, harvested wild fennel and prickly pears from Mykonos to create this signature cocktail.
Ingredients
Method: For the prickly pear syrup, take 500ml of prickly pear juice, 500ml of granulated sugar and 50g of fennel, and then boil, strain and bottle them together. Store in fridge. Combine all ingredients into a shaker, dry shake or use an immersion blender or a whisk to aerate, and emulsify the ingredients together. Add ice and shake. Double strain into a coupe glass.
The spiced tones of Sir Edmond’s spin on a G&T will have you feeling festive when hosting friends during the winter.
Ingredients:
Method: Stir all ingredients and strain into a glass with ice. Garnish with lime zest oils and star anise.
Beach Bum Rum’s tropical twist on a sour makes for the perfect after-dinner drink.
Ingredients:
Method: Add all ingredients into a shaker with ice and shake. Strain into a highball glass with a large ice cube. Top up with ginger ale, and garnish with a lemon wedge.
Smooth to drink and simple to put together, this rum-based cocktail has similar qualities to a Godfather and a Rusty Nail.
Ingredients:
Method: Add all ingredients into a shaker with ice and stir until the cocktail is cold. Strain into a Martini glass and garnish with a ripe cherry.
Slunk back in an armchair, in front of a crackling fireplace, this riff on an Old Fashioned makes for an unrivalled nightcap.
Ingredients:
Method: Stir the ingredients and serve on the rocks. Express the orange peel and serve.
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