When it comes to hosting your nearest and dearest and attending a festive soiree, a carefully curated and crowd-pleasing drink menu is essential. From a Winter Negroni to a more classic Spritz, we’ve got you covered with 8 festive cocktail recipes to sip and savour.

Select Spritz

_{Photo courtesy of Select Aperitivo}

Ingredients

• 3 Parts Prosecco

• 1 Part Select Aperitivo

• 1 Slash of Soda

Method

Start with an elegant stemmed wine glass. Add ice, Select Aperitivo, Prosecco, and soda. Stir gently and garnish with one green olive. 

Garnish

Top it off with a green olive 

Winter Negroni

_{Photo courtesy of Dillon’s Small Batch Distillers}

Ingredients

• 1 oz fresh blood orange juice
• 0.5 teaspoon granulated sugar
• 1 fresh rosemary sprig, another for garnish
• 1.5 oz Dillon’s Dry Gin 7
• 1 oz Bitter Aperitivo (Campari or Select)
• 1 oz Dillon’s Sweet Vermouth
• 1 egg white (or 1-ounce aquafaba)
• 2 dashes Dillon’s Orange Bitters

Method

Add the blood orange juice, sugar, and rosemary to a cocktail shaker. Muddle until the rosemary starts to break down and become fragrant. Add the gin, aperitivo, sweet vermouth, egg white (or aquafaba), and bitters to your shaker. Dry shake for 15 to 20 seconds. Add ice and wet shake for an additional 20 to 30 seconds. Strain the cocktail into a chilled rocks glass.

Garnish

Top off with a rosemary sprig.

_{Christmas Basil Cocktail}

_{Photo courtesy of Hennessy}

Ingredients

• 40 ml Hennessy V.S.O.P Privilège cognac
• 10 ml Vanilla liqueur 
• 20 ml Lemon juice
• 15 ml Simple syrup
• 90 ml Rooibos tea
• 2 dash Orange bitters

Method

Add all cocktail ingredients to a shaker tin with ice. Shake to chill and strain into a Collins glass.

Garnish

Top off with lemon twist and shies leaf. 

_{A Holiday Sparkle}

_{Photo courtesy of Belvedere Vodka}

Ingredients

• 30 ml Belvedere Vodka 
• 15 ml lemon juice 
• 10 ml orgeat (almond syrup) 
• 1 dash angostura bitters
• Top with Moët & Chandon Brut Champagne

Method

Combine all ingredients into a cocktail shaker (except Champagne), add ice and shake for 5-7 seconds. Pour into a flute, top with Moët & Chandon Champagne, and

Garnish

with a lemon twist.

_{The Bearface Mule}

_{Photo courtesy of BEARFACE Whisky}

Ingredients

• 2 oz BEARFACE Whisky
• 5 oz ginger beer
• 1 Cinnamon stick
• Lime

Method

Pour BEARFACE over chunky rocks, top up with ginger beer and add a cinnamon stick. Serve in a camping mug. 

_Firecracker

_{Photo courtesy of Grey Goose}

Ingredients

• 25 ml GREY GOOSE L’Orange Vodka
• 25 ml red wine
• 35 ml fresh squeezed pomegranate juice
• 4 Bar Spoons Caster Sugar
• Grapefruit zest

Method

Shake all ingredients except grapefruit zest and strain into a well-chilled glass.

Garnish

Top off with grapefruit zest. 

_{Diamante Spritz}

_{Photo courtesy of Maestro Dobel Tequila}

Ingredients

• 2 oz Dobel Diamante
• ½ oz Lemon juice
• ½ oz Winter-spiced syrup
• 2 oz Sparkling apple cider
• 2 oz Sparkling wine
• Dash aromatic bitters
• Thyme sprig

Method

Build all ingredients into a wine glass, top with ice, and stir.

Garnish

Top off with thyme spring

_{Limoncello Spritz}

_{Photo courtesy of Luxardo}

Ingredients

2 oz Luxardo Limoncello
4 oz FIOL Prosecco
2 oz soda water (optional)
Citrus garnish: 1 lemon slice (optional)
Herbal garnish: 1 sprig of mint, basil, or thyme (optional)

Method

Pour over ice

Garnish

For a citrus garnish top off with 1 lemon slice. For an herbal garnish top with 1 sprig of mint, basil, or thyme.