Recipes entered into the 2023 Heering Cherry Christmas Cocktail Competition

Christmas your way

It has a slight sweet sherbet flavour when mixed with normal Japanese gin (I use Roku Gin). Replace the gin for Shiraz gin to make it even more velvety

Santa's Favorite

Approach construction casually and finish with a flourish.

Cherry Forest Sour

We came across this while creating new cocktails for our bar menu. Our musician loves Jäger so we tried something with this to get him a sour based on

Cherry Dasher

For lovers of cherries featuring traditional holiday flavors of bourbon, ginger and cinnamon spiced apple, balanced with aperitif wine for a mildly bitter

Kiss Me Under the Cherry Tree

While testing out different recipes, I kept coming back to this one. In December, I got engaged and my fiance rarely drinks but loves an espresso martini

An Almost Fanatical Devotion to the Pope

I wanted to create a Manhattan variation that captured the essence of the cordial chocolate cherries that I get every holiday season. This cocktail will

God rest Ye cherry gentlemen

Based on the classic last word cocktail, with Heering cherry liqueur replacing the more usual maraschino liqueur. Vodka, and the lighter yellow chartreuse

Red Herring

I originally made this during Covid because I had a bottle of Cherry Heering that I had never used and when I tasted it. It was sweet. I thought it would

Heer's to You

This cocktail is meant to be a flip version of a coquito recipe. Madeira is used in many family recipes for the holidays and rum, madeira, and cherry herring

Sleighwrecked

My love of tropical rum drinks and the fruit of the season - cranberry.

The Herbal Remedy

The drink has a lot of intensity and complexity whilst remaining perfectly balanced. This drink has the cherry flavour on the forefront whilst providing

Yukon Cornelius

Cornelius's cocktail is warming and smoky thanks to mezcal which serves as the base spirit. Herbal alpine intrigue is introduced with Génépy liqueur

Sweater Weather

Regardless of whether dry or reverse-dry shaken, use a Hawthorne strainer on final pour to ensure fine and even foam. For best presentation, let the coconut

Where Treetops Glisten

My imagination. A variation of a Christmas cocktail I created for my restaurant's seasonal craft cocktail menu.

Saturnalia

Desserty top notes of cherry and vanilla that give way to astringent and citrucy middle without ending either too sweet or too dry. Well-balanced.

Gift

Provideb at room temperature. Altruism.