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15 Winter Cocktails Perfect For Lighting Up The 2020 Holiday Season

15 Winter Cocktails Perfect For Lighting Up The 2020 Holiday Season

The holidays might look a little different in 2020, but if there is a year for mixing up a variety of winter cocktails, this is the one. Unfortunately, many of us will not be able to celebrate with our family and friends in person. In good news, however, we don’t really need to leave our homes at all, which means there’s plenty of time to mix up drinks.

While Christmas is just around the corner and New Year’s Eve follows not too long after, the cold and snowy season is only getting started. These 15 cocktails were made with winter in mind, not just the holidays. They’re here to keep you warm and jovial as you zoom conference with friends and watch the flakes float to the ground.

So without further ado here are our:

15 Winter Cocktails Perfect For Lighting Up The 2020 Holiday Season:

Candy Cane Gin Sour

Greenall's Gin Candy Cane Gin Sour - Winter Cocktails 2020 Holiday

Ingredients:

  • 200ml sugar syrup
  • Star anise, a cinnamon stick and nutmeg – whole winter spices of your choice!
  • 50ml of Greenall’s Wild Berry Gin
  • 1/2 lemon, juiced
  • · egg white
  • Grenadine syrup
  • Caster sugar
  • Tonic
  • Ice cubes
  • A candy cane for decoration

Heat the sugar syrup with your selection of whole winter spices until just simmering then set aside to cool. Coat the top of a champagne flute with grenadine syrup and sprinkle with caster sugar. When cool, add 15ml of the spiced syrup along with Greenall’s Wild Berry Gin, lemon juice, egg white and ice to a cocktail shaker and shake hard. Strain into a champagne flute and decorate with a candy cane.

A Harper Carol

A Harper Carol - Winter Cocktails 2020 Holiday

Created by Adrian Alvarez

Ingredients:

Combine all ingredients in a shaker tin, shake, double-strain into a coupe.

Scotch 75

Scotch 75 - Winter Cocktails 2020 Holiday

Created by Mixologist Eric Ribero 

Ingredients:

Add all ingredients except the sparkling wine into a shaker. Add ice and shake until chilled. Strain into a flute glass then top up with the sparkling wine and garnish.

Starward New World Egg Nog

Starward-New-World-Egg-Nog

Created by Tui Tekaaho, Beverage Director, Peachy’s NYC

Ingredients:

Combine Starward, brandy, egg, cream and honey in a shaker with ice. Shake and strain vigorously and strain into an empty Collins glass. Top with sparkling wine and serve.

Cranberry Rosemary Margarita

Don Julio Cranberry Rosemary Margarita - Winter Cocktails 2020 Holiday

Ingredients:

  • 1.5 oz Tequila Don Julio Blanco
  • 0.75 oz fresh lime juice
  • 0.5 oz cranberry juice
  • 0.5 oz rosemary simple syrup
  • Fresh Cranberries + Rosemary Sprig

Shaken over ice. Bar Ice.

Partida Anejo Cristalino Martini:

Partida Anejo Cristalino Martini:

Ingredients:

  • Partida Añejo Cristalino 1.5-2 oz
  • Sweet White Vermouth ¾ oz
  • Lemon Juice ¼ oz
  • Orange Bitters 2 dashes

Shake all ingredients in a shaker and double strain over chilled martini glass. Garnish with a lemon twist.

Grace Martini

Grace Martini

Ingredients:

  • 6 cl Grace O’Malley Heather Infused Irish Gin 
  • 2 cl sweet white Vermouth (for example Lillet Blanc) 
  • Optional: 4 dashes of Olive Bitters (for 
  • example The Bitter Truth) 
  • 1 tsp olive brine (from the olive jar) 
  • 1 green olive

Fill a mixing glass with ice cubes and add the  ingredients. Stir on ice, then strain into a  coupe or martini glass. Add the olive.  Tip: chill the glass in the freezer before serving.

The Hive Toddy

Wemyss_HT_1 - Winter Cocktails 2020 Holiday

Ingredients:

  • 1½ ounce Wemyss The Hive
  • 1 tablespoon honey
  • ½ ounce lemon juice
  • 1 cup hot water
  • Lemon wedge, cinnamon stick and star anise, for garnish (optional)

Combine the first four ingredients into the bottom of a warmed mug. If desired, garnish with the lemon, cinnamon stick or star anise.

Shibui Earl Grey Toddy

Shibui_HT_1 - Winter Cocktails 2020 Holiday

Ingredients:

  • 5 oz Earl Grey tea
  • Dollop of honey – vary based on how sweet you would like
  • 1 oz Shibui Single Grain Whiskey 
  • 1/4 oz Applejack Brandy.
  • Garnish with a clove-studded half-lemon wheel

Make the tea. Stir in honey, applejack and add the whisky. Garnish with lemon and serve in a teacup.

The Rudolph

Rum - Winter Cocktails 2020 Holiday

Ingredients:

Step 1: In a shaker, put all the ingredients without ice. Shake vigorously a first time for 6 to 8 seconds. Add ice and shake again. Step 2: Filter and pour into a whiskey glass. Add a fresh cranberry and two rosemary branches to the glass.  

Speyside Cowboy

Speyside Cowboy - Winter 2020 Cocktails Holiday

Created by Allan Roth, Glenfiddich Brand Ambassador

Ingredients:

Combine all ingredients except for the coffee beans in a shaker and shake to incorporate the egg white.  Add ice and shake again.  Pour into a coupe.  Garnish with coffee beans.

The Balvenie Spiced Yule 

The Balvenie Spiced Yule Holiday Cocktail

Created by Naomi Leslie, Balvenie Brand Ambassador

Ingredients:

  • 1 1/2 oz Balvenie Caribbean Cask
  • 1/2 oz Madeira
  • 1/4 oz Tempus Fugit Crème de Cacao
  • 1/4 oz Fresh Lemon Juice
  • Small sprinkle (Approx. 1/8 tsp) of Smoked Paprika
  • 1 1/2 oz Prosecco

Add all ingredients (except Prosecco) to shaker with ice. Shake briefly and strain into a Champagne Flute or Coupe. Top with 1 1/2 oz Prosecco. Add lemon twist. 

Tod & Vixen’s Dry Gin Negroni 1651

PorterGabi-4625(2)

Created by the late, great gaz regan (NY)

Ingredients:

  • 1.5 oz Tod & Vixen’s Dry Gin 1651
  • 1 oz Cocchi Storico Vermouth di Torino
  • 1 oz Campari

Stir with ice in an ice-filled rocks glass, garnish with an orange wedge, then serve. (Finger-stirring optional.)

Tanteo Tequila Sparkling Margarita

Sparkling Margarita

Ingredients:

Combine ingredients in a shaker with ice Stir well and strain into a chilled Coupe Glass. Garnish with a lemon twist

Woodford Reserve Bring Back Black Manhattan

WR Champagne Cocktail

Created by Erica Gantt, Savannah, Georgia

Ingredients:

  • 1.5 part(s) Woodford Reserve Bourbon
  • .75 part(s) Dumangin Ratafia de Champagne
  • .5 part(s) Barolo Cocchi Chianto
  • 2 dash(es) 18.21 Aromatic Prohibition Bitters

Add all measured ingredients to a mixing glass. Ice should be added (enough to cover the liquid), stir the cocktail until gently diluted. Strain with a julep strainer into coupe glass. Express an orange peel over the top. Garnish with a Woodford Reserve Bourbon cherry.

Please let us know in the comments how you enjoyed our 15 Winter Cocktails Perfect For Lighting Up The 2020 Holiday Season

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