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20 Best Cocktails by Ingredient

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Cocktail of the Day
10 April 2026

Today is The day Bananas debuted, so we are drinking a Nuclear Banana Daiquiri.

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Milano Torino (Mi-To)

The drink that led to both the Negroni and the Americano. Pause and enjoy its simplicity before progressing.

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Daiquiri (frozen)

A superbly refreshing cocktail on a hot day. Blend with too much ice, and you will have a tasteless slushy drink that will give you brain-ache if you drink

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Vernalagnia Martini

Ginseng bitters add bright, fresh, aromatic, aphrodisiac notes while Parfait Amour liqueur literally means perfect love. But does the alluring sunken garnish

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Sakura Martini

Sake replaces vermouth in this Martini with maraschino liqueur adding deliciousness, enhanced by faint salinity.

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Daisy Cutter Martini

Dry, floral, minty and herbal. A pallet cleansing Vodkatini. The few tiny shrapnels of mint that make it through the fine strainer add to this cocktail's

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Gypsy Gentleman

A bourbon lime sour, the deliciousness of which depends on the quality of your grenadine and appreciation of fernet.

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Mee-Ho-Loong

Rich sloe gin, toned with dry herbal vermouth notes.

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Black Hawk

Rich, tart berry-slow gin mellows the spirituous spiced rye whiskey with delicate vanilla and liquorice. A must-try if you like Manhattans.

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Fail-Safe

There are delicate and pleasing floral notes to this complex, well-balanced riff on a Negroni.

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Singapore Sling (Difford's recipe)

A fruity sling with Tiki flavours and well-disguised gin-laced spirituous strength. Traditionally, Sling cocktails are charged with a soda, but why use

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Añejo Margarita

Añejo tequila is better mixed with orange curaçao (than the usual triple sec) in this flavoursome Margarita.

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Honey Old Fashioned

Honey may slightly cloud this cocktail's appearance, but use a good raw honey, and you'll have a much-enriched Old Fashioned. The bourbon and Tennessee

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Baltasar & Blimunda

A Negroni variation with vermouth amaro and tawny port, producing a dry, lightly bitter digestivo. (When made with richer ruby port, this cocktail loses

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Golden Orchard

Cognac, pear and delicate elderflower floral notes with sauvignon blanc wine adding flavour and balancing acidity.

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Simon's Sidecar

Unusually for a Sidecar, my recipe leans heavily on orange curaçao and pineau des charentes, each adding layers of flavour to this finely balanced sour.

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Vermouth Cocktail

Well-balanced, herbal sweetness, dominated by vermouth (hence the name), with faint maraschino, but perhaps the most important ingredient is the most hidden,

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Limonzero Tonic

Lemon zesty freshness invigorated with tonic water.

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