New Cocktails

This bittersweet Manhattan served on-the-rocks is best enjoyed as a digestivo or cleansing late-night tipple.

A rum and cognac-laced banana sour with far more sophistication than the name might suggest.

Banana rum awakened by herbal amaro.

A bittersweet pink grapefruit-flavoured riff on the G&T.

Recipe by yours truly in June 2024.

On the palate this starts as a nutty sour and finishes with enlivening spice. Hazelnut-flavoured sugar syrup is key to this recipe, which is even...

Just as it says on the tin, an Old Fashioned with subtle hazelnut notes. Hazelnut-flavoured sugar syrup is key to this recipe, which is even tastier...

Bourbon-laced almond milk with rich hazelnut and lemon freshness. Hazelnut-flavoured sugar syrup is key to this recipe, which is even tastier when...

A dry, complex, gin-laced cocktail. Stir well, and depending on your ice, consider adding 7.5ml (¼oz) of well-chilled water before stirring.

Spirit-forward, bittersweet and sweet 'n' sour, this mezcal and gin sour is best enjoyed as an aperitivo or digestivo.

An orange and apricot Daiquiri. Like most Daiquiris, the Periodista benefits from a little additional dilution, hence the chilled water in my recipe.

A Sweet Manhattan on bitter steroids. If you find it a tad punchy then try served on-the-rocks.

Sloe gin shines in this cocktail, lifted by subtle aniseed and liquorice notes from a touch of anisette.

Liquorice and subtle aniseed from the anisette emerge through the vermouth's herbal notes.

A spirit-forward cocktail that takes dilution well, so consider serving it in an old-fashioned glass over ice.

The influence of anisette is surprisingly subtle in this alternative to a Sweet Manhattan. If you want to make this a little drier, use a tawny rather...

Ruby port adds fruitiness to this dry, brandy-laced late-night sipper.

Expressed oils from a lemon zest twist are essential to the freshness of this beautifully rounded, old-tom gin-based Sweet Martini.

Lemon juice and bitters add a touch of creole sourness to this riff on the brandy-based classic Japanese Cocktail from Jerry Thomas's Bar Tenders...

Delicate grassy agricole rum and apricot brandy dance in this beautifully balanced, Tiki-style cocktail.

Bittersweetness rounded and made wholesome by the addition of an egg. If you like Negronis, be sure to sample this cocktail's flip side. Depending on...

As the name promises, this cocktail is all about the vermouth, with the addition of maraschino liqueur and bitters delicately modifying, so their...

Muscular notes of mezcal and gentian square up to each other but are softened and made to play nicely by bianco vermouth.

A delicious Manhattan-like cocktail that's brilliantly enlivened by chinato and fino sherry with maraschino playing an enhancing role.