Recipes entered into the 2023 Heering Cherry Christmas Cocktail Competition

Heering for the Holidays

created myself...inspired by heering flavour profile, and holiday flavours

Cerise Céleste

This cocktail is to be served ice cold and sipped slowly

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

Festive Bakewell Sour

Combine all ingredients in an ice filled shaker and shake until well chilled. Discard the ice and then dry shake for 10-15 seconds and fine strain into

Cheery Jules

Lime on the nose with the vermouth leading. Lime and cherry mingle joyfully in the middle before the Chartreuse provides a dry, bracing, herbal finish.

Southern Winter

I only added a bar spoon of sugar syrup as the Heering brings a lot of sweetness. It has forward notes of lime, like a daiquiri, with back notes of warming

Treacle's Cherry Nose

The split between the cherry liqueur and gin can be altered to suit taste. And cherry syrup could be used as a substitute to amp up the cherry another

Cherry Me Down Slowly

I get a lot of old fashioned drinkers so I'm always coming up with variations for them.

XOXO, Santa

Just a little muddle, just enough to break the cloves and cherry into the bottom of the shaker glass. Double strain is important to get all the clove pieces

The Second Christmas

Tasting note - Sweet, Tart, Festive

Nakatomi Plaza

Cherry, citrus, sweet, herbal.

The Last Heering

A fresh and herbal cocktail that blends the sweet note of the Cherry Heering with the liquorice and herbal notes of Chartreuse. A fresh and slightly dry

Cheerful Cherry

The competition inspired me to use this underused liqueur and create a cocktail to get everyone in a holiday spirit.

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

Orange you glad its cherry?

Coffee, rich, cacao, bitter, sweet. Taking a bite of the garnish before having a sip of the drink, really brings out the cherry flavour as well.

Republique

spicier Armagnac is very helpful in giving the full body of flavor for this cocktail