Cheers to spending the holidays together! From family gatherings over a turkey and cozy cocktails by the fireplace to ringing in the New Year in your sweatpants and everything in between — our flock has a cocktail for every occasion this holiday season. Celebrate with these recipes by our cocktail expert, Moira McGuire!
If your favorite Thanksgiving dish is cranberries, then this cocktail is for you.
ARTEMESIA
a light cranberry spritzer
INGREDIENTS
- 1.5 oz cranberry infused Cocchi Vermouth Di Torino
- 0.5 oz orange curacao
- soda water
- cranberry garnish
INSTRUCTIONS
- Add your ingredients to your glass and top with soda water.
- To make homemade cranberry infused Cocchi Vermouth Di Torino: Infuse a full bottle of vermouth with 2.5 cups of cranberries, zest of 1 orange and a grated 3-inch piece of ginger.
Happy Holidays! Have a cocktail. Get into the holiday spirit with a little bit of bourbon.
THE ADMIRAL
a sweeter, less boozy Manhattan
INGREDIENTS
- 1.5 oz bourbon
- 1 oz orange juice
- 0.5 oz cherry liquor
- 2 dashes of Angostura bitters
- 2 dashes of Peychaud bitters
- garnish with an orange peel and a cherry
INSTRUCTIONS
- Add all ingredients to a mixing tin and shake for 10 seconds.
- Strain into a coupe glass and enjoy.
New Year, do you. Bright, boozy and boss… this cocktail and you ringing in the New Year.
THE I-75
a classic booze forward sparkling wine cocktail
INGREDIENTS
- Absinthe rinse
- 1 smoked sugar cube
- 3 dashes of orange bitters
- 0.5 oz bourbon
- 0.5 oz sweet vermouth
- 4 oz sparkling wine
- garnish is an orange peel
INSTRUCTIONS
- Build in a glass. Start with the absinthe rinse, sugar, then bitters.
- Add bourbon and vermouth then top with sparkling wine.
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