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For your smithereens sipping pleasure, it’s time to toast to love with our Valentine’s Day drink guide!
Today is a day that many of us love and many of us hate but whether you’re celebrating with your sweetie or ignoring the Love Day propaganda, we’re sure that you could use a drink.
Every holiday we provide you the most delicious cocktails with a step-by-step guide, and Valentine’s Day is no different. Be sure to drink responsibly and whatever you do, don’t try to spin the block and text your ex.
Happy sipping!
Check BOSSIP’s 2024 Valentine’s Day Drink Guide
Source: Mi Campos / Mi Campos
Mi Campo’s Rose Hip Cocktail
Ingredients:
1.5oz Mi Campo Blanco
3/4oz Lime Juice
1/2oz pomegranate juice
1/2oz simple syrup
1 dash of cardamom bitters
Method: Add the Mi Campo Blanco, lime juice, pomegranate juice, simple syrup and bitters into a cocktail shaker with some ice and shake vigorously. Then strain, and garnish with a lime wheel and pomegranate seeds.
Source: Glendalough Rose / Glendalough Rose
Glendalough Rose Martini
Ingredients:
1.5 oz. Glendalough Rose Gin
0.5 oz. Dry Vermouth
0.5 oz. Elderflower Liqueur
Lemon twist, garnish
METHOD: Combine ingredients in a mixing glass with ice and stir until very cold. Strain into a martini glass and garnish with a lemon twist.
Source: Bombay / Bombay
Bombay’s Sapphire’s French 75
Ingredients:
2 oz Bombay Sapphire Gin
3 oz Martini & Rossi Prosecco
½ oz freshly squeezed lemon juice
¼ oz sugar syrup
Lemon twist to garnish
Method: Shake all of the ingredients (except Prosecco) briefly with cubed ice for around 10 seconds. Fine strain the mixture into a chilled, straight-sided wine glass including 3 oz of Prosecco.
Source: Bacardi / Bacardi
Pantone Peach Spritz
Ingredients:
1.5 oz BACARDÍ Superior
0.75 oz lemon juice
1 bar spoon/tbsp Bonne Maman Peach Preserves
1.5 oz Fever Tree Sparkling Grapefruit Soda or Sparkling Pink Lemonade
Mint sprig, peach slice, and grated cinnamon as garnish
Method: Combine the rum, lemon juice, and peach preserves into a cocktail shaker. Add ice and shake. Strain into a glass filled with ice and top with the sparkling soda. Garnish with a fresh mint sprig, a peach slice, and freshly grated cinnamon for a spiced peach aroma.
Source: Cenote Tequila / Cenote
Cenote Tequila Blanco
Ingredients:
2 oz Cenote Blanco
4 oz Hibiscus tea
0.5 oz Lime Juice
Sugar Syrup to taste
Method: Combine all ingredients into a shaker with ice. Shake to combine and strain into glass. Garnish with lime round/wedge and mint.
Source: Empress 1908 / Empress Gin
SHADES OF PINK
Ingredients:
1.5 oz Empress 1908 Elderflower Rose Gin
1 oz Fresh Lemon Juice
1 oz Simple Syrup
Soda Water
Method: Shake ½ oz Empress Elderflower Rose Gin, lemon and simple syrup on ice. Strain into a Collins glass over fresh ice. Top with soda and float remaining 1 oz gin on top. Garnish with a lemon wheel and lavender sprig.
Source: Fraser and Thompson / Fraser and Thompson
For My Honey
Ingredients:
*for the honey simple syrup:*
1/2 cup honey
1/2 cup water
*for the cocktail:*
1 oz Fraser & Thompson North American Whiskey
1 oz Cointreau
1.5 oz Honey Simple Syrup
1.5 oz Orange Juice
.5 oz freshly squeezed Lemon Juice
2 dashes Bitters
Brandied cherries
Method: For the simple syrup, combine the honey and water in a small saucepan. Bring to just a simmer, then remove from heat and let cool. Store in the fridge. For the cocktail, whisk all of the ingredients, except the cherries, in a bowl (or use a cocktail shaker filled with ice). Pour over ice. Add cherries, they’re mandatory.
Source: Lalo / LALO
Lalo ‘KISS ME’ Paloma
Ingredients:
2oz LALO Tequila
1.5oz Fresh Grapefruit Juice
3oz Sparkling Water
.5oz Fresh Lime Juice
.5oz Agave Syrup
Pinch of Salt
Garnish: Lime Wedge
Method: Add LALO, fresh juices, agave syrup, and a pinch of salt to an ice-filled shaker tin. Shake and strain into a salt-rimmed, ice-filled collins glass. Top with sparkling water, and garnish with a lime wheel or wedge.
Source: Robert Jacob Lerma / Robert Jacob Lerma
Campfire Old Fashioned
Ingredients:
2 parts Bib & Tucker Double Char Bourbon
0.25 part Maple Syrup
2 dashes Coffee Pecan Bitters
2 dashes Black Walnut Bitters
Garnish with Orange Peel
Method: Add Bib & Tucker Double Char Bourbon, maple and bitters to mixing glass over ice. Stir for 30 seconds until cold. Strain liquid over fresh ice into rocks glass and garnish with orange peel.
Source: Campari / Campari
Campari “Rosita”
Ingredients:
1 part Campari
0.5 part 1757 Vermouth di Torino Rosso
0.5 part 1757 Vermouth di Torino Extra Dry
1.5 parts Espolón Reposado Tequila
1 dash aromatic bitters
Method: Stir ingredients in a mixing glass with ice and strain over fresh ice in a rocks glass. Garnish with a lemon peel.
Source: Savoia Americano / Savoia Americano
SAVOIA NEGRONI
Ingredients:
2 parts Savoia Americano
1 part London Dry Gin
4-5 ice cubes
Method: Rock glass, fill with ice cubes, add the ingredients, stir gently, and garnish with green and red grapes.
Source: Martini & Rossi Rosé / Martini & Rossi
Martini & Rossi “Pink French 75”
Ingredients:
3oz. Martini & Rossi Rosé
1oz. Bombay Sapphire Gin
.5oz. Lemon Juice 1 teaspoon of sugar
Method: Mix all ingredients except for Rose in a shaker and serve in a coupe glass. Garnish with a lemon twist. The perfect Valentine drink!
Source: Grand marnier / Grand Marnier
Grand Marnier “The G&G”
Ingredients:
1.5 parts of Grand Marnier Cordon Rouge
3.5 parts Ginger Beer(or Dry Ginger Ale)
Squeeze of Lime
Method: Pour all of the ingredients in a Collins glass, add ice, and stir.
Source: Mezcal Union / mezcal union
Eterna Unión
Ingredients:
1.5 oz Mezcal Unión Uno
1 oz Grape juice (cold pressed)
0.5 oz Dry Vermouth
Soda
Grapes
Basil
Method: Add ice to glass. Combine all ingredients and top with soda. Garnish with a grape skewer and basil.
Source: Q mixers / Q Mixers
This one is easy purchase Q Mixers and enjoy but for Valentine’s Day “Q-pids” will be in Manhattan Q stops in DUMBO upgrading last minute gifts. All you have to do is spot a “Q-pid” and you can get a premium cocktail kit and a bouquet of long-stemmed red roses.
Source: Astral / Astral
Astral Tequila “Lovers’ Moon”
Ingredients:
1.5oz Astral Tequila Blanco
1.5oz Fresh Grapefruit Juice
0.5oz Fresh Lime Juice
0.5oz Cinnamon-Agave Syrup
Method: Combine all ingredients into a cocktail shaker, add ice, shake and strain into an ice-filled rocks glass rimmed with salt. Garnish with a grapefruit wedge.
Source: Don Julio / Don Julio
Don Julio “Passion Play”
Ingredients:
1.5oz Tequila Don Julio Rosado
0.75 oz Lime
0.75 oz Passion Fruit
0.5 oz Honey
Method: Rim a rocks glass with chili salt and fill it with one large ice cube, combine all ingredients in a cocktail shaker, add ice, shake hard for 5 seconds, strain into a glass and garnish with a grapefruit peel.
Source: Sunshine Punch / Sunshine Punch
Partly Sunny
Ingredients:
1 part Sunshine Punch
1 part Sparkling Water
Method: Combine Sunshine Punch and your favorite sparkling water in an ice-filled Collins glass. Garnish with mint and an orange twist.
Source: Captain Morgan / Captain Morgan
Hot Buttered Rum
Ingredients:
1.5 fl oz Captain Morgan Original Spiced Rum
2 tsp Unsalted Butter
0.5 tsp Ground Cloves
0.5 fl oz Caramel Syrup
2 tbsp Honey
0.5 tsp Ground Nutmeg
0.25 tsp Demerara Simple Syrup
1 tsp Ground Cinnamon
Hot Water
Method: Add syrup, honey, and spices into a mug and muddle.Add Captain Morgan and then fill to the top with hot water. Top with softened butter.
Source: Baileys / Baileys
BAILEYS CHOCOLATE DIPPED STRAWBERRY MARTINI
Ingredients:
2 oz. Baileys Chocolate Liqueur
1 oz. Don Julio Blanco
0.5 oz. Simple Syrup
3 Fresh Strawberries, Sliced
2 dashes Peychaud’s Bitters
Method: Add 3-5 strawberries to cocktail tin. Add remaining ingredients to tin. Shake and fine strain into coupe glass. Garnish with a strawberry (slice, full, or chocolate dipped).
Source: Mercer and Prince / Mercer+Prince
Mercer + Prince Paloma
Ingredients:
1.5 oz. Mercer + Prince
2 oz. Ocean Spray Ruby Red Grapefruit Juice
Top w/ Grapefruit Soda (or Soda Water)
Method: Add ingredients into an ice filled Collins glass or Highball glass. Stir to combine and chill. Garnish with fresh mint & grapefruit.
Source: Teeling / Teeling
APPLE OF MY EYE
Ingredients:
2 oz Teeling Small Batch Irish Whiskey
4 oz Apple Cider
½ oz Honey
Method: Add all ingredients to a shaker, using a bar spoon twice to collect the honey. Shake until chilled and fine strain into Highball glass with ice. Garnish with an apple slice.
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Pantalones 3-in-1 Cocktails “Yours, Mines, Ours”
Yours
Ingredients:
1.5 oz Pantalones Organic Blanco Tequila
1 oz Grand Marnier
1 oz Lime Juice
0.5 oz Agave Syrup
0.5 oz Strawberries (frozen is recommended)
1 cup of crushed ice
Method: Build all the ingredients into a blender (If using regular refrigerator ice, I recommend breaking it up in a bag with a muddler or rolling pin beforehand). Blend until smooth, adding more ice if needed (you can always add more, you can never take away). Pour into a double rocks glass and garnish with a lime wedge and/or strawberry slice.
Mine
Ingredients:
1.75 oz Pantalones Organic Reposado Tequila
0.75 oz Amaro (preferably Amaro Nonino or Averna)
0.75 oz Lemon Juice
0.25 oz Agave Syrup
1 Tbsp or heaping bar spoon of Blackberry Preserves
Method: Build all of the ingredients in a cocktail shaker and shake until cool. Strain over fresh ice and garnish with a Mint Crown.
Ours
Ingredients:
3 oz “Yours” Cocktail
3 oz “Mine” Cocktail
Method: Pour Half of the “Mine” into a stemmed Margarita glass and the other half into a second stemmed Margarita glass. Top with half of the “Yours” in one glass and the remaining “Yours” in the second glass. To Garnish, cut a chocolate-dipped strawberry in half and perch each piece on the rim of the glasses. Enjoy together.
Source: Legrand Whiskey / LeGrand
Scarlet Heart Cocktail
Ingredients:
1.75 oz LeGrand Whiskey
.5 oz Cherry Heering liqueur
.5oz Egg White
.5oz Blackberry puree
3/4oz Lemon Juice
1oz Lychee juice
.5 Demerera Simple Syrup
Gold Flakes dusted on our Berry garnish
Method:
Add all ingredients into a mixing glass with ice. Stir the mixture in the ice to chill it. Strain the cocktail out of the mixing glass into a shaker. Dry shake the cocktail very vigorously to make sure it gets that nice foam top (no ice inside shaker just liquids). Pour cocktail into coupe glassware over ice cube. Dust Berry Garnish with gold flakes. Lay garnish over an ice cube.
