Occasion

Drinks for Brunch.

11 recipes

Sparkling Wine / Fruity

Poinsettia

Poinsettia is made with cranberry juice and orange liqueur topped with Champagne in a flute, chilled for serving.

3 min · Easy · 8.5% ABVView recipe ↗
Sparkling Wine / Fruity

Kir

A Kir combines dry white wine and crème de cassis directly in the glass for a light wine cocktail with blackcurrant sweetness.

2 min · Easy · 11.1% ABVView recipe ↗
Non-Alcoholic Spirits / Coffee

Virgin Espresso Martini

Espresso, syrup and a hard shake. Coffee brings its own bitterness and its own foam, which is why this is the most…

5 min · EasyView recipe ↗
Non-Alcoholic Spirits / Refreshing

Virgin Mary

A Bloody Mary without the vodka — and because the drink was always about tomato, salt and heat rather than the spirit,…

4 min · EasyView recipe ↗
Non-Alcoholic Spirits / Citrusy

Arnold Palmer

Iced tea and lemonade, half and half. Named for a golfer who ordered it so often that asking for one by name…

4 min · EasyView recipe ↗
Alcohol-free lime and mint mojito in a tall glass with crushed ice
Non-Alcoholic Spirits / Citrusy

Virgin Mojito

Mint, lime, sugar and soda. The one mocktail that loses almost nothing without the rum, because the mint and lime were always…

4 min · EasyView recipe ↗
Sparkling Wine / Fruity

Bellini

White peach purée and Prosecco. Two ingredients, no substitutions, and a very short season in which it is genuinely worth making.

3 min · Easy · 6.4% ABVView recipe ↗
Sparkling Wine / Citrusy

Mimosa

Equal parts orange juice and sparkling wine. There is nowhere to hide, which is why the juice matters more than the wine.

2 min · Easy · 5.2% ABVView recipe ↗
Vodka / Refreshing

Bloody Mary

The savoury cocktail that works as a drink rather than a dare — if you season it like food and skip the…

4 min · Easy · 10.3% ABVView recipe ↗
Irish Whiskey / Coffee

Irish Coffee

Hot coffee, Irish whiskey, sugar and a collar of unwhipped cream you drink straight through. Made right, it is a dessert and…

6 min · Intermediate · 7.6% ABVView recipe ↗