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Cocktail of the Day
13th of December 2025
Today is National Cocoa Day, so we are drinking a Chocolate Negroni.
Champagne Snowball
Deliciously silky smooth, indulgent, and decadent. Rich, thick, and creamy advocaat freshened with dry sherry, zesty lime cordial, and invigorated with
20 best Christmas cocktails
Christmas is a time for overindulgence, so these cocktails are rich in every sense of the word. In America, the creamy Eggnog dominates the festive cocktail
Tom & Jerry (serves 6)
A warming and filling winter's meal in itself. This recipe will fill six small toddy glasses or Tom & Jerry mugs (each 20cl capacity to brim), and given
Atlantic Flyer
Aromatised and fortified wines structure this brandy-based, delicious, late-night sipper.
Christine Wiseman's Margarita
Agave syrup flavours and helps balance this classic Margarita and Tommy's Margarita hybrid.
Cantinflas
This Agave spirit-forward, bittersweet cocktail is a pleasing digestivo or late-night sipper.
Cantinflas Mustache
Reminiscent of an M & M, this is a delicious and perfectly balanced bittersweet, spirit-forward, digestivo or late-night sipper with great depth of flavour.
After Midnight Martini
A late-night alternative to an Espresso Martini.
Roman Twist
Bourbon-laced almond and orange coffee served tall and frappéd.
White Christmas Martini
Recognisably a crisp, dry, Vodka Martini, but mellowed and made luxuriant with festive flavours.
Honey Aperitif Daiquiri
Bittersweet and sweet 'n' sour honey, delicately fortified with rum.
Elf On The Shelf
Elf (elderflower liqueur), On (orange liqueur), The (tequila), Shelf (sherry) is for naughty elves to share while planning mischievous enactments. Judicious
Improved Scotch Cocktail
A tad heavier on the 'improving' liqueur element than some other Improved Scotch Cocktails, but this is balanced by doses of bitters, and a little richness
After Midnight
A bittersweet, orange and maraschino-influenced riff on a Rob Roy.
Jersey Lightning
A brandy and apple brandy-based Sweet Manhattan.
Nova Scotia
Nova Scotia is Latin for New Scotland and this cocktail presents Scotch whisky in a contemporary take on an Old Fashioned.
Golden Mojito
The rum's character shines in this rustic, Cuban-styled Mojito.
Banana Calling
This short, sharp cocktail is best described as a Banana & Fino Sherry Gin Sour. The fino and banana notes are subtle, so subtle that it is not obviously
Pisco Kid
This short pisco-based spirituous stirred cocktail was inspired by memories of Nestle's Milkybars and the 1980s British TV ads featuring the Milkybar Kid
Cherry Sour
Sweet and sour cherry with bittersweet vanilla.
Queen Street Cocktail
Daiquiri-like, delicately sour and, helped by the garnish, wonderfully aromatic.
Hunter
A spirit-forward, bourbon-laced, late-night sipper with rich cherry. (Traditionally served straight-up in a coupe, but it's better served over ice.)
Symposium
A Greek-influenced riff on the Port & Brandy classic English classic, which, among those who drink it, is known by the nickname Randy.
