Martini
Ingredients
Serves 1
2 oz (60 ml) Bombay Sapphire Gin* (Can substitute with vodka.)
½ oz (15 ml) Noilly Prat Extra Dry Vermouth
1 dash orange bitters (optional, but recommended)
pimento-stuffed olive and/or lemon twist, for garnish
Instructions
- Place a martini glass in the freezer. In a mixing glass, combine gin, vermouth and bitters with cubed ice. Stir until well chilled and strain into chilled martini glass. Garnish with either a pimento-stuffed olive or a lemon twist…or both.
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BLOODY MARY
Ingredients
Serves 1
1½ oz (45 ml) Grey Goose Vodka
4 oz (120 ml) tomato juice
½ oz (15 ml) lemon juice
3 dashes Worcestershire sauce
2 dashes Tabasco sauce
1 pinch each salt and pepper
celery stick, for garnish
lemon wedge, for garnish
Instructions
- In a cocktail shaker with ice, combine all ingredients and gently rotate shaker to mix. Do not shake, as the aeration and extra dilution will change the consistency. Strain over new ice into a chilled hurricane or Collins glass and garnish with a celery stick and lemon wedge.
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CLEMENTINE BUBBLE
Ingredients
Serves 1
¾ oz (22 ml) Absolut Vanilia Vodka
2½ oz (75 ml) freshly squeezed clementine juice (Can substitute mandarin juice.)
½ oz (15 ml) fresh lemon juice
3 oz (90 ml) C Sharp Sparkling Brut
whipped cream, for garnish
orange zest, for garnish
Instructions
- In a mixing glass with ice, combine vodka and juices and stir to chill. Strain into a Collins glass, add sparkling wine and top with ice, leaving room for a dollop of whipped cream. Garnish with orange zest.
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Royal Bubble
Ingredients
Serves 1
1 oz (30 ml) Stolichnaya Razberi Vodka
½ oz (15 ml) fresh lemon juice
½ oz (15 ml) simple syrup*
2½ oz (75 ml) Medici Ermete
Concerto Lambrusco Reggiano Frizzante
raspberry, for garnish
Instructions
- In a mixing glass with ice, combine vodka, lemon juice and simple syrup. Stir to chill and dilute, then strain into a flute glass. Top with Lambrusco and garnish with a raspberry.
- * 1:1 ratio of sugar dissolved in boiling water. Allow to cool before using.
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WITCHES’ HONEYDEW BREW
Ingredients
Serves
2 tbsp (30 ml) black sesame seeds, for garnish (optional)
1 oz (30 ml) Luksusowa Vodka
1 oz (30 ml) Bols Melon Liqueur
½ oz (15 ml) lime juice
2 sprigs fresh mint
2 oz (60 ml) soda water
green food colouring (optional)
Instructions
- If using, place black sesame seeds on a plate, moisten rim of a stemless wine glass and gently roll in crushed sesame seeds so they stick to glass. In a cocktail shaker, combine vodka, melon liqueur, lime juice and mint. Fill with ice and shake vigorously to combine. Pour through a fine mesh strainer into prepared glass over cubed ice and top with soda water. Add a few drops of green food colouring to intensify the colour, if desired.
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APPLE & THE RYE
Ingredients
Serves
1½ oz (45 ml) Belvedere Vodka
½ oz (15 ml) Berentzen Apfelkorn
½ oz (15 ml) Cardamom Peppercorn Syrup*
¾ oz (22 ml) lemon juice
2 dashes lemon bitters or substitute 1 strip lemon zest
lemon twist and apple fan, for garnish
* In a small saucepan, toast 10 green cardamom pods over medium heat until fragrant, about 2 to 3 minutes. Add ½ tbsp (7 ml) whole Szechuan or black peppercorns and toast until fragrant, about 1 to 2 minutes. Add 6¾ oz (200 ml) water, carefully, as some of it will steam instantly. Bring to a light simmer for 5 minutes to extract flavour. Add ¾ cup (150 g) sugar and stir to dissolve. Allow to cool, strain and store in refrigerator for up to 2 weeks.
Instructions
- In a cocktail shaker, combine all ingredients except for garnish, add ice and shake vigorously for 7 to 10 seconds. Strain into a Collins glass over fresh ice and garnish with a lemon twist and an apple fan.
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Mocha Mudslide
Ingredients
Serves 1
1½ oz (45 ml) Absolut Vanilia Vodka
1½ oz (45 ml) Baileys Irish Cream
1 cup (250 ml) chocolate ice cream (about 2 scoops)
4 to 5 cold brew coffee ice cubes
1 pinch sea salt
chocolate syrup, whipped cream and chocolate shavings, for garnish
Instructions
- In a blender, combine vodka, Baileys, ice cream, coffee ice cubes and salt. Blend until smooth. Right before serving, drizzle chocolate syrup into sides and bottom of a milkshake or other tall glass, then pour blender contents in. Garnish with whipped cream and chocolate shavings.
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Strawberry Basil Gimlet
Ingredients
Serves 1
4 small strawberries (save 1 slice for garnish)
1 oz (30 ml) Grey Goose Vodka
½ oz (15 ml) lime juice
3 drops liquid stevia
1 sprig basil (save 1 leaf for garnish)
Instructions
- In a cocktail shaker, muddle strawberries. Add ice cubes, vodka, lime juice, stevia and 3 basil leaves. Shake vigorously and fine strain into a chilled coupe glass. Garnish with a strawberry slice and/or basil leaf.
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Red Star Line
Ingredients
Serves 1
1½ oz (45 ml) Ketel One Vodka
1/3 oz (10 ml) Bols Cherry Brandy
1/3 oz (10 ml) Bols Apricot Brandy
½ oz (15 ml) lemon juice
½ oz (15 ml) natural, unsweetened cranberry juice
¼ oz (7 ml) simple syrup (1:1 ratio suger, with water)
2 dashes Bittered Sling Autumn Bog Cranberry Bitters
lemon zest “hairs,” for garnish
Instructions
- In a Collins glass over crushed ice, combine all ingredients then stir. Top with more crushed ice and garnish with lemon “hairs.”
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TWELFTH NIGHT
Ingredients
Serves 1
1½ oz (45 ml) Ketel One Peach & Orange Blossom Vodka
3 oz (90 ml) cranberry juice
3 oz (90 ml) dry sparkling wine
rosemary sprig, for garnish
Instructions
- In a cocktail shaker, combine vodka with cubed ice. Stir to chill. Strain into a Collins glass and add sparkling wine. Gently add cubed ice and garnish with a rosemary sprig.