Celebrate The Holiday Season with Festive Cocktails

This season's trendiest, most festive cocktails bring flavours of gingerbread and citrus, sugary lemons, juicy berries, coffee and chocolate to your gatherings.

We've put together a perfect cocktail menu with something for everyone so that all you need to do is mix and mingle.

Here's what's on the menu:

St-Rémy Winter Punch

Ingredients:

• 600ml St-Rémy XO
• 1200ml distilled water
  
• 100ml vanilla syrup
• 40 dashes bitters
• 200ml ginger bread syrup
• 10 ginger slices
• 5 cinnamon sticks

How to Make:

Into a pan, pour all the ingredients and heat to 30°C. Serve with the ladle into the punch glasses.

Makes 10 servings

Red Jubilee Cocktail

Ingredients:

• 50 ml Hennessy V.S.O.P Privilège
• 20 ml Fresh squeezed lemon juice
• 20 ml Simple syrup
• 1 Pinch Chinese five spice
• 5 Dashes Peychaud bitters
• 1 Star Anise & Cocktail Cherry

How to Make:

Add all ingredients to a shaker tin.

Shake until well chilled. Step 3: Strain into a rocks glass with fresh ice.

Garnish with a cocktail cherry & a star anise

French 75

Ingredients:

• 30ml HENDRICK’S GIN
• 10ml Sugar Syrup
• 10ml Lemon Juice
• Top with Champagne

How to Make:

Add gin, sugar and lemon to a cocktail shaker.

Add ice, shake well and fine strain into a flute.

Top with champagne.

Santa Teresa 1796 right hand

Ingredients:

• 40ml Santa Teresa 1796
• 20ml Noilly Prat Rouge
• 20ml Martini Bitter
• 2 dashes Cacao Bitters

How to Make:

Combine all ingredients in mixing glass

Stir

Strain into chilled cocktail glass

Garnish with a Sherry

The Perky One

Ingredients:

• 45 ml / 1.5 oz Belvedere Vodka
• 20 ml / 0.75 oz Coffee Liqueur
• 1 Single Espresso
• 5ml / ⅙ oz Sugar Syrup

How to Make:

Add all ingredients to cocktail shaker and shake over cubed ice. Fine strain into chilled martini glass. Garnish with three coffee beans.

Winter in Jalisco Margarita

Ingredients:

• 45 ml Patrón Silver
• 22.5 ml Patrón XO Cafe
• 15 ml Citrónge Orange Liqueur
• 22.5 ml Fresh lemon juice
• 1 Barspoon toasted sesame oil
• + Fresh kumquat slice for garnish

How to Make:

Combine all ingredients in a cocktail shaker and shake with ice to chill.

Strain over fresh ice into a double old fashioned glass.

Garnish with a slice of fresh kumquat.

Winter Apple Toddy

Ingredients:

• 50ml Glenmorangie X
• 75ml pressed apple juice
• 25ml lemon juice
• 1 dessert spoon honey (to taste)
• Garnish: Clove studded orange wheel, cinnamon stick and star anise

How to Make:

Pour ingredients (except whisky) into a saucepan and bring to a simmer on a low heat. Do not allow to boil.

Pour whisky into glass and top with hot ingredients

Godfather

Ingredients:

• 25 ml Disaronno
• 50 ml The Busker Blended Irish Whiskey
• Orange peel

How to Make:

Pour over large ice ball and stir. Garnish with orange twist

If you're traveling soon, be sure to stop by Duty Free and gather all that you need for a fully stocked bar cart. You can shop up to 30 days ahead of your flight with Reserve & Collect.

Happy Holidays!

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