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The following 294 cocktails are the preeminent and best-known of the 6,000+ cocktails on Difford's Guide. Subject to ingredients, these are all cocktails

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20 Best Cocktails by Ingredient

Browse the top 20 cocktails by ingredient

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Cocktail of the Day
21st of March 2026

Today is World Vermouth Day, so we are drinking a Marianito.

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Neon Knight

Sherry-based, with bittersweet gentian, mezcal, pineapple and orange.

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Disco Sour

Peach liqueur sets this gin and pisco-based sour apart.

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Disco Mi-To

A wonderfully complex, vodka-based, Negroni riff.

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Tomodachi

Aged grappa adds vanilla and dried fruit notes to this sake-infused, vermouth-rounded, complex cocktail with delicate bittersweet depth of flavour.

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Maion Fashion

Bittersweet notes make this aged grappa-based old-fashioned suite the after-dinner moment.

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Range Life (Tequila Negroni)

This delicious Tequila Negroni is a great example of how the lightly vanilla notes of a reposado work better than a bianco tequila in many cocktails. (I

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Hell Diver

The classic mix of gin and red quinquina (see Dubonnet Cocktail No. 1 and Zaza), enhanced by chocolate and dashes of bitters.

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Bitter Bee

Honeyed bittersweet and sweet 'n' sourness, lightly fortified with mezcal. Designed as a low-alcohol aperitivo.

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20 best Spring cocktails

Spring has sprung – well at least it has here in the northern hemisphere. It's time to rediscover the delights of floral cocktails – think elderflower

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Mar del Plata

Not so far removed from a Corpse Reviver No. 2 in style, this gin-laced aperitivo is dry and aromatic with intertwined citrus and herbal notes.

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Bouchot

A calvados-based White Negroni. (If you measure in ml rather than ounces, perhaps use a 50ml, 25ml, 25ml recipe.)

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Mole Old Fashioned

A corn and rye whisky-based Old-Fashioned with the chocolate and spice notes, as befits the name.

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Italian Passion Margarita

A bittersweet, passion fruit Margarita.

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Gypsy Rosolio

Gin-laced, floral, rich elderflower balanced by sour and faintly bitter citrus.

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Alpine Martini

Genepi's alpine flavours enhance this herbal Martini.

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Volare

An unlikely combination of ingredients gives a pleasing, strangely almost floral flavour.

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Barracuda No. 2

Lightly bourbon-laced and delicately bittersweet with lemon freshness. The oils from the garnish are an essential toning element.

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