Drinks for Holidays.
61 recipes
White Russian
Vodka, coffee liqueur and cream. A Black Russian with the edges rounded off, and a film career most cocktails never get.
Corpse Reviver No 2
Four equal parts and a whisper of absinthe. One of the most perfectly balanced sours ever written down — and Craddock warned…
Aviation
Gin, maraschino, lemon and a whisper of violet — a pre-Prohibition sour that spent fifty years incomplete because one ingredient vanished.
French 75
Gin, lemon, sugar and Champagne — named after a field gun, and it hits about as hard.
Tom Collins
Gin, lemon, sugar and soda in a tall glass. A gin sour stretched long — and the only cocktail named after a…
Irish Coffee
Hot coffee, Irish whiskey, sugar and a collar of unwhipped cream you drink straight through. Made right, it is a dessert and…
Sazerac
Rye, Peychaud's and sugar in an absinthe-rinsed glass, with no ice in the finished drink. New Orleans in a rocks glass.
Espresso Martini
Cold espresso, vodka and coffee liqueur shaken hard enough to build its own crema.
Paloma
Mexico's actual favourite tequila drink. Grapefruit, lime, salt — lighter and more drinkable than a margarita.
Margarita
Tequila, lime and orange liqueur in balance — a sour so well built it survived decades of being made badly.