New Cocktails

Splitting between two styles of sherry (fino and oloroso) builds complexity in this tequila-laced aperitivo. Half a spoon of agave syrup helps balance...

Rich and creamy but not overly sweet with brandy adding the "Punch."

This grappa-laced cocktail has layers of coffee-led herbal complexity.

A mezcal-based riff on the Painkiller that's balanced rather than sweet.

Rum-laced mango. Yumm!

As the name suggests, this is a mango-flavoured Mojito, and it's deliciously fruity with minty lime freshness.

This gin-based Espresso Martini works with dry gin but makes a more austere cocktail. Old tom gin sits more harmoniously with the coffee. Depending on...

The green-tinged Waters of Hippocrene are worthy of late-night contemplation, perhaps while reading Keats.

Green-tinged rather than emerald-coloured but with herbal-lime notes that, along with the name, suggest a greenness in the flavour.

You may have thought that winter months in the northern hemisphere were confined to the likes of cauliflowers, leeks and brussels sprouts, but it's...

The Espresso Martini is itself a riff, by its creator, on his earlier Vodka Espresso. Indeed, the Espresso Martini is a cocktail that lends itself to...

A bittersweet muscular mastiff sourpuss laced with French brandy.

This bittersweet, faintly fruity, sparkling aperitivo may find its way onto our list of Contemporary Classic Cocktails.

A tropical and ginger juice-spiced riff on a Moscow Mule.

This bittersweet red-orange cocktail has notes of Boulevardier about it and moves the Manhattan from being a late-night cocktail back to the aperitivo...

Blood orange juice, orange curaçao and grenadine add colour and flavour to a Gin Sour.

Make in a 10oz highball (not a 12oz+ Collins) and this is an assertively punchy cocktail with funky rum notes to the fore. And it's all the more...

A rum and vodka-laced orange creamsicle.

Sake sweetened with Sauternes and flavoured with cognac and Islay whisky.

Margarita-like with a wisp of peaty smoke.

A gin-laced, freshening herbal alternative to a late-night Sweet Manhattan.

Swedish punch adds its distinctive funkiness to this delicious, bite-sized, grenadine-sweetened, gin-laced sour.

Orange, lemon, and a generous splash of aromatic bitters complement this cocktail's brandy base.

Mango adds fruitiness to the contemporary classic Gin Basil Smash.