Recipes entered into the Heering Cherry Christmas Cocktail Competition

It's not mulled wine?

Smoky with a cherry fruit back drop Vermouth adds depth and gives length

Xmas Bakewell Tart

Favourite cake.

Santas Spritz

For best results use a sloe gin with strong aromatic, and almond flavours, such as Elephant Sloe Gin. If using a more fruity and less aromatic sloe gin,

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

'Twas The Night

A very pleasant treat of a cocktail! Cherry, chocolate and a hint of mint work very well with the warm spice and light smoke from the bourbon.

Kutia

It is served in cups made of Kosiv ceramics, which is part of the UNESCO heritage

Bittersweet Love

The idea was to create a flavor similar to the cherry sauce that inside luxardo cherries.

Sleigh Me!

A riff on the sidecar and cable car using cherry heering.

Soda Jerk

Add ingredients to a mixing glass. Add ice and strain over big ice cube

Snowpenhagen

If you like it a little stronger and fruitier, you should swap the white light rum with a stronger rhum agricole, e.g. the 50% Clément, matched very well

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

Immortality Darling

Chocolate notes coming from the Woodford Reserve Double Oak and mole bitters complement the baking spices from angostura, cinnamon, and calvados. An orange

Cherry Me Down Slowly

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

St Nick's Pudding

I was tasked to create a Christmas cocktail in the bar I work at and I used memories of my childhood as inspiration. As a child I used to bake Christmas

The cherry on the cake

Can be enjoyed by itself at anytime of the year but preferably paired with cake for Christmas! (Especially if the cake is a chocolate one)

Paper Reindeer

A Christmas festive treat. Loosely inspired by the Paper Plane except with Tiki-inspired layers of spice. Tastes exactly like Christmas. The egg white