Recipes entered into the 2023 Heering Cherry Christmas Cocktail Competition

You'll Be Heering From Me

With this cocktail I aimed to create a warming, wintry sipper with a good toffeeish Irish whiskey while emphasising the nuttiness of the Heering alongside

Cherry Baby

My wife requested a festive cocktail and this is my Christmas take on a brandy crusta for the season. Potentially, an improvement on the classic. It was

Cherry Deluxe

Developed at the height of the cherry season

Frosted Cherry Cha-Cha

I wanted to create a festive cocktail my friends and family could enjoy representing the spice and flavors of the holiday season. To me, that means pie

Cheery Cherry Wake Up

Put a Rocks glass in the freezer. Add all ingredients to a frozen stirring glass. Fill the stirring glass half full of ice. Stir for 10-15 seconds for

Bright and Cheery

I used Roses grenadine to enhance the color, not for flavoring, and Lairds Applejack as the apple brandy, but I am sure calvados would be a good substitute.

Mrs. Carstensen's Cookie

This cocktail reminds you of grandma's cherry shortbread cookies - prominent sweet cherry notes with an almond backbone. It's prominent with

Cherrytale of New York

This is Christmas in a glass! Best enjoyed sitting by a crackling fire.

one bodacious broad

This is a delicious brunch cocktail!

Chai Hard

The rich cherry and nutty flavours of the Cherry Heering layer in perfectly with the spices of the Allspice Dram, spicy vanilla notes from Bulleit bourbon

Spiced Cherry Sour

I just really enjoy cherry and lime flavors together, and wanted the spices of the rum and falernum for more of a holiday taste.

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.

Yuzutide

Winter is the season for yuzu: the peel smells amazing, while the juice is bitter and a perfect complement to the sweetness of the Cherry Heering. The

Northern Lass

Based on my fiancé's favourite Christmas flavours of cherry and ginger, I decided to make an elegant drink that looked great. An homage to my partner.

Cordial Invitation

Thought about how to best accentuate the mint characteristics in this rye whiskey and wanted to work with cherry heering more. I immediately thought of

Heering through the grapevine

This Manhattan riff has a split base - rye to complement the cherry flavor and add a bit of spice, and gin, to bring a little bit of herbaceous and juniper