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4th of January 2026

Today is Sir Isaac Newton's birthday, so we are drinking a Apple Blossom Cocktail.

Dulce Di Lecce

This dessert cocktail, as its name suggests, is reminiscent of dulce de leche.

Hoop La!

Reminiscent of a tart Sidecar with added depth of flavour.

Odd McIntyre

If you like Sidecars, then this variation with delicate quinine bitterness may be for you.

Pink Pearl

Yes, it's pink. It's also a sour that heroes calvados.

Bonny Scot

Scotch whisky and apple are classic pairings, and here the apple comes in the form of calvados, with the richness of whisky liqueur balanced by tart, fresh

Pink Puff

Mustard yellow with a white head, rather than pink, but there's more than 'puff' of flavour to this bourbon-laced, apricot-flavoured sour.

Bayana

Vibes of a Sidecar but easier, with a balance reminiscent of a Daiquiri made with aged rum.

New Year's Vodkatini

Known as The 12 Grapes (Las Doce Uvas), Spanish tradition dictates that you should eat one grape for each of the 12 clock chimes at midnight. After the

20 best Champagne Cocktails

Cocktails are intrinsically decadent, but those with champagne, or similar sparling wine, are also lavish, invigorating and celebratory. Champagne cocktails

Christmas Martini

Festive in colour and flavour with vodka-laced orange, ginger and pomegranate, balanced with red wine tannins.

Honey in Manhattan

Bittersweet honey flavours subtly introduce new dimensions to a Sweet Manhattan.

Daiquiri No. 4

Maraschino liqueur adds delicate notes to this finely balanced Daiquiri.

Humuhumunukunukuapua'a

Pronounced hoo-moo-hoo-moo-noo-koo-noo-koo-ah-poo-AH-ah, this fabulously named cocktail is a Gin Sour turned tiki with pineapple and orgeat.

La Louisiane

A rye-based Sweet Manhattan enriched with herbal liqueur and bittered with Peychaud's and absinthe. Originally made with equal parts rye whiskey, Bénédictine

Devil's Soul

Spirituous, smoky, earthy, bittersweet, floral, herbal and complex. I've reduced the original serve by one-third to produce a complex, serious and most

Frisco Sour

A bourbon-laced Whiskey Sour with monastic herbal notes.

Christmopolitan

A suitably Christmassy amaretto-influenced Cosmopolitan.