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Cocktail of the Day
5th of March 2026
Today is Absinthe Day, so we are drinking a Absinthe Drip Cocktail (French method).
20 best Absinthe cocktails
Absinthe is a most unusual cocktail ingredient as it's the main base spirit in some cocktails while is used as mere dashes in others. Absinthe's aroma
Absinthe
Nicknamed the 'Green Fairy', Absinthe is a bitter, aniseed-flavoured green liquor distilled with anise, fennel and wormwood. It has a reputation to challenge
La Fee
The story of La Fée is inextricably linked to one man's discovery of absinthe at a time when it was either banned or thought to be banned in much of the
Miraflores
A simple but delicious honeyed Pisco Sour, sin egg white.
Lone Tree No. 1
An easy-drinking Martini served 'perfect' and 'wet'.
Lone Tree No. 2
This 'sweet' Fifty-Fifty Martini is ridiculously simple, yet delicious.
Antonella
With its trio of Italian liqueurs, and a pour of barrel-aged grappa that's less than half the combined volume of the liqueurs, this old-fashioned alternative
Hell's Kitchen
A smoked Little Italy and Paper Plane mashup.
Daleoni Negroni
A mellow, lightly bitter Negroni with deep rounding ferro china notes.
Sour Cherry Negroni
Bittersweet, sour cherry with almond-like stone fruit notes.
Monsoon Martini No. 2
The timing of the monsoon season varies significantly across South Asia, Southeast Asia, North America, and East Asia, but July is a month when all these
Chocolate Mint Martini
A 'Martini' for the after-dinner chocolate mint moment.
Banoffee Espresso Martini
A vodka Espresso Martini with the banana and toffee flavours found in the eponymous dessert.
Loved Up
A berry and orange, loved-up, fruity riff on a Margarita.
Gun Metal Blue
Orange, peach and cinnamon delicately flavour this mezcal-based Margarita riff.
Mezcalita
A Mezcal Margarita with a freshening splash of orange juice to accompany the triple sec orange liqueur that's essential to a proper Margarita.
Margarita cocktail
The Margarita can loosely be categorised as being a Tequila Sour, a Tequila Sidecar or a Tequila Daisy, but it is now so well-known and popular that it
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Delmonico
A Sweet Manhattan with brandy replacing whiskey, and orange bitters in place of aromatic bitters.
Creole Cocktail
Short and punchy and Manhattan-like. Best appreciated as an after-dinner digestivo or late-night sipper. Thanks to feedback and much refining, I'm happy
Sharpie Mustache
As dilution opens this cocktail, gingerbread flavours emerge.
Piccolina
A low-alcohol fortified wine-based aperitivo with pleasing honeyed fig.
Lotus Espresso Martini
Vodka-laced coffee to the fore, with maple syrup adding body.
