New Cocktails

Vodka-laced coffee to the fore, with maple syrup adding body.

A tasty apple and cognac sour with delicate herbal and cinnamon spice.

A Chelsea Sidecar with absinthe.

An orange curaçao-influenced Sweet Manhattan.

No one ingredient is grandstanding in this classic brandy and gin-based, maraschino-influenced sour.

An almond-flavoured Vodkatini that delivers on its name. Best when made with tonka bitters (or vanilla bitters), adding balance and depth of flavour.

This seemingly soft, fluffy and apricot fruity cocktail hides a most unladylike rum bite.

Aromatic bitters add their distinctive flavour to a classic Sidecar.

Equal parts calvados and port prove surprisingly tasty and better balanced than the original two parts apple brandy to one part port. I've tried tawny...

An apple-influenced, easy-drinking alternative to a Sweet Manhattan.

Bourbon's classic vanilla notes are amplified and rounded in this simple but tasty Old Fashioned.

Good banana flavour without being overly sweet. Indeed, this Banana Daiquiri is more sophisticated than the uninitiated might expect.

Herbal, peppermint and vanilla Scotch whisky.

A spirituous sour with apple brandy, rum, grenadine and orange fruitiness.

If you like a Last Word, you'll like this.

This deep olive-green, minty, bittersweet herbal cocktail is perhaps the ultimate digestivo. If you're stuffed/flagging after an overly indulgent...

Originally designed to be served straight-up, but I prefer this punchy, Negroni-esque cocktail over ice, mellowed by a little additional dilution.

A tequila and white port-laced Tiki-style cocktail with sour lime balanced by rich almond syrup.

This equal parts "Rum Manhattan" is ridiculously simple but simply delicious. As befits the name, it also suits the character of a well-aged Cuban...

Honeyed and herbal with an assertive dry gin backbone. I find the original equal-parts formula a little overly rich, so I cut back the liqueur to as...

As the name suggests, this pisco-based, five equal parts, vivid yellow, bittersweet aperitif was inspired by the classic Negroni, along with three of...

A Wet Martini softened by liqueur and given a hint of citrus and spice.

A great after-dinner cocktail for lovers of brandy and Chartreuse. The sweet elements in this sour are cranked up but balanced by spiritous alcohol...

Too many and you're in it! This is a punchy, spirit-forward cocktail that was apparently created as a pick-me-up but is perhaps better suited as a...