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Cocktail Hall of Fame

The following 294 cocktails are the preeminent and best-known of the 6,000+ cocktails on Difford's Guide. Subject to ingredients, these are all cocktails

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20 Best Cocktails by Ingredient

Browse the top 20 cocktails by ingredient

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Cocktail of the Day
3rd of November 2025

Today is David Embury's birthday, so we are drinking a Larchmont.

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20 best Halloween cocktails

All Hallows' Eve, the 31st of October, is spook night with bizarre costumes, trick-or-treat, pumpkin carving, apple bobbing and bonfires all the rage.

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Perfect Word

A perfectly balanced, floral Last Word.

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Itty Bitty Pretty

An americano blanco-charged Honey Vodka Sour.

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Eldridge Highball

Peated whiskey and ginger beer with balanced lemon sourness and honey richness.

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Doctor's Orders (Eastern Standard)

A rye whiskey sour with apricot liqueur and Swedish punch, perhaps inspired by the classic Doctor cocktail.

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Peachy Sour

Just as the name suggests, with a bourbon backbone.

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Lauwiliwilinukunuku'oi'oi

Unlike its name, this pineapple and almond tropical Rum Sour is all too easy.

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20 best Mango liqueur cocktails

The quality of mango liqueurs has improved dramatically over recent years and I was inspired to create any of the following cocktails when our first bottle

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Bitter Half

Just on the sweet side of bittersweet with delicious herbal complexity. A great digestive.

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Rosé Negroni No. 2

Floral notes from the vermouth shine in this riff on a classic Negroni.

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Waterproof Watch

As you expect from a cocktail by Sother Teague, this cocktail is a masterclass in balanced bittersweetness.

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Formidable You

A bittersweet Scotch Sour with notes of liquorice and spice.

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Formidable Negroni

Amaro Formidabile adds its distinctive wormwood, anise and clove notes to this riff on a classic Negroni.

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Salted Caramel Espresso Martini

A riff on an Espresso Martini with flavours of salted caramel and vanilla.

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Salted Caramel Apple Martini

Sweet and sour apple and rich salted caramel.

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Scotch Salted Caramel Sour

A cocktail that delivers exactly as its name promises.

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Salted Caramel Rum Old Fashioned

Mix yourself one of these and settle back in a comfy chair for a comforting late-night tipple.

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