Recipes entered into the 2023 Heering Cherry Christmas Cocktail Competition

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 cinnamon,

The Red Lion General

Rye provides a bold and spicy backbone for this bitter-sweet drink, with flavors of smoked cherry and cola. Intended originally as a scaffa, but can be

The Vixen

Evoking chocolate and orange takes me back to my childhood days in London, enjoying Jaffa cakes by the fire. Additionally, the clove studded orange garnish

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

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

Cherry sour

Can add more cherry liqueur for a deeper taste, Or adjust cranberry juice to 40 mm to sharpen taste

Cherry Fog Nog

If there are two drinks which remind me of Christmas, they're Egg Nog and the holiday London Fog from my local cafe. Rather than the typical Earl Grey,

Cherry Ripe Manhattan

The flavour profile of the cocktail is complex and deep, with three different and remarkable waves of flavours: The first is Dry due to presence of Cognac

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

Rudolph's Wonderland

For a winter solstice / Christmas cocktail I wanted to take this beautifully rich-sweet Heering Cherry Liquor (my father always called it Cherry Herring

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.

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

Ran Out of Tape

I prefer to make my own grenadine: 2 cups of POM grenadine juice 1.5 cups of sugar 1 teaspoon of orange blossom water 2 oz of pomegranate molasses 1

My Cherry Amour

Flavor profile is reminiscent of Christmas fruitcake, raisins from the cognac, candied citrus from the lemon and orange juice, Cherries from the Heering

Goodnight Kiss

For best results use an aromatic sloe gin such as elephant sloe gin. If your sloe gin is more fruity and less spicy then a few dashes of Angostura Aromatic

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