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Holiday Party Cocktail Recipes

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Four holiday party cocktails, each made with bottles you can shop right here: a sherry and cava punch that serves 20, bourbon with apple cider, a tequila and Aperol spritz topped with Prosecco, and a Scotch, cherry and chocolate nightcap.

Sherry Merry Punch

Makes 20 servings

Sherry Merry Punch

Ingredients

  • 3 cups Brugal 1888 rum
  • 1 1/2 cups Lustau Dry Amontillado Sherry
  • 1 bottle Codorniu Cuvee Clasico Cava Brut
  • 1/4 oz Pinot Noir
  • 1 cup sparkling water, chilled
  • 1 cup freshly squeezed lemon juice
  • 1/4 cup honey
  • Fruit of your choice, to garnish

Steps

  1. Stir the honey and lemon juice in a large pitcher until the honey dissolves.
  2. Add the rum, Pinot Noir and sherry, and stir to blend.
  3. Top with the cava and sparkling water and stir gently.
  4. Pour into punch glasses over a large cube of ice and garnish with fruit.

Bourbon & Cider

Bourbon & Cider

Ingredients

  • 2 oz Bulleit Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey
  • 4 oz apple cider
  • 2 tbsp cinnamon
  • 1 tbsp sugar
  • Orange wedge and rosemary sprig, to garnish

Steps

  1. Combine the cinnamon and sugar on a plate.
  2. Run the orange wedge around the edge of a cocktail glass and set the rim in the cinnamon sugar. Fill the glass with ice.
  3. In an ice-filled shaker, combine the cider and bourbon and stir.
  4. Strain into the glass and garnish with the orange wedge and rosemary sprig.

Bulleit Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey Front Bottle Shot
Bulleit Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey
Kentucky, Other U.S. ● Bourbon Whiskey
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Mexican Spritz

Mexican Spritz

Ingredients

  • 1 3/4 oz Partida Blanco Tequila
  • 1 oz Aperol Aperitivo Liqueur
  • 2 oz freshly squeezed grapefruit juice
  • Mionetto Prosecco, to top

Steps

  1. Shake the tequila, Aperol and grapefruit juice with ice.
  2. Strain over fresh ice into a wine glass.
  3. Top with a floater of Prosecco.

Colored Forest

Colored Forest

Ingredients

  • 2 oz Glenlivet 12 Year Single Malt Scotch Whisky
  • 1 1/2 oz cherry brandy
  • 1/2 oz creme de cacao
  • Splash of Kahlua Coffee Liqueur
  • 1 cherry
  • Grated chocolate or sieved cocoa powder, to finish

Steps

  1. Add a cherry to a cocktail glass.
  2. Add a handful of ice to a cocktail shaker with the Glenlivet, cherry brandy and Kahlua. Stir and strain into the glass.
  3. Float the creme de cacao over the top.
  4. Sprinkle with grated chocolate or a little sieved cocoa powder.