Cocktail of the Day
17th of March 2025
Today is Saint Patrick's Day, so we are drinking a St. Patrick's Day.
20 best Espresso Martinis
The Espresso Martini is itself a riff, by its creator, on his earlier Vodka Espresso. Indeed, the Espresso Martini is a cocktail that lends itself to variation
20 best St Patrick's Day cocktails
St Patrick's Day not only calls for you to dress in green but to toast the Emerald Island with emerald-coloured Irish whiskey-based cocktails, stout, or
French Bulldog
A bittersweet muscular mastiff sourpuss laced with French brandy.
Quarter Century
This bittersweet, faintly fruity, sparkling aperitivo may find its way onto our list of Contemporary Classic Cocktails.
Brooklyn Burro
A tropical and ginger juice-spiced riff on a Moscow Mule.
Vermilion Manhattan
This bittersweet red-orange cocktail has notes of Boulevardier about it and moves the Manhattan from being a late-night cocktail back to the aperitivo
Red Dragon
Blood orange juice, orange curaçao and grenadine add their distinctive colours and flavours to a Gin Sour.
Jasper's Rum Punch
Make in a 10oz highball (not a 12oz+ Collins) and this is an assertively punchy cocktail with funky rum notes to the fore. And it's all the more delicious
Orange Whip
A rum and vodka-laced orange creamsicle.
Smokey Joe
Sake sweetened with Sauternes and flavoured with cognac and Islay whisky.
Smokestack Lightning
Margarita-like with a wisp of peaty smoke.
Redwood Heights
A gin-laced, freshening herbal alternative to a late-night Sweet Manhattan.
Have a Heart
Swedish punch adds its distinctive funkiness to this delicious, bite-sized, grenadine-sweetened, gin-laced sour.
Alabazam (short)
Orange, lemon, and a generous splash of aromatic bitters complement this cocktail's brandy base.
Mango Basil Smash
Mango adds fruitiness to the contemporary classic Gin Basil Smash.
Go Figure
A floral bittersweet aperitivo charged with fig leaf soda.
Tiny 'Tini
A scaled-down, bite-sized 5:1 Dry Martini, which benefits from orange and lemon oils in place of orange bitters.
