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The holiday season is all about the sparkle, especially when it comes to wine, and especially on New Year’s Eve. Ingredients such as apple brandy, pear liqueur and wintery spices add seasonal flair for drinks you can enjoy long after the ball has dropped and the holiday decorations are put away.
Here are 10 recipes that we like for this year. (And for more bubbly ideas suggestions, here’s our New Year’s drinks roundup from 2022.)
Amanda’s Holiday Spritz
Ingredients
Makes 25 5-oz. cocktails1 bottle Laird’s 7 ½ Year apple brandy1 bottle St. George spiced pear liqueur12 oz. Cinnamon-anise Demerara syrup12 oz. Fresh lemon juice1 bottle Champagne or dry sparkling wine
Instructions
Combine ingredients in a punch bowl.
Garnish with dehydrated lemon slices, whole star anise and cinnamon sticks.
Notes
For Cinnamon-anise demerara syrup
6 oz. Demerara sugar
6 oz. Boiling hot water
2 Cinnamon sticks
4 Star anise Combine sugar and water and mix until sugar dissolves.
Add cinnamon and anise and let marinate for 48 hours.
Strain out spices and chill before batching. Amanda Reed, beverage director of E3 Restaurant Group, created this recipe for Metropolitan Grill in Seattle.
6 oz. Demerara sugar
6 oz. Boiling hot water
2 Cinnamon sticks
4 Star anise Combine sugar and water and mix until sugar dissolves.
Add cinnamon and anise and let marinate for 48 hours.
Strain out spices and chill before batching. Amanda Reed, beverage director of E3 Restaurant Group, created this recipe for Metropolitan Grill in Seattle.
Glass Slipper
Ingredients
3 Fresh blackberries4 oz. Sparkling wine¼ oz. St. Germain elderflower liqueur¾ oz. Lavender honey syrup¾ oz. Lemon juice
Instructions
Muddle blackberries in a shaker tin.
Add everything except sparkling wine and shake.
Double strain into a flute glass.
Top with sparkling wine/Champagne.
Garnish with grapefruit shimmer and an edible orchid.
Notes
The mixologists at Westgate Las Vegas Resort & Casino in Las Vegas created this recipe.
Ice, Spice, & Everything Nice
Ingredients
1 x Holiday spiced ice*1 parts Lillet Rouge4 parts Mumm Sparkling Brut Prestige sparking wine
Instructions
Add the Holiday Spice Ice to a wine glass.
Follow with Lillet Rouge and then sparking wine.
Notes
*For Holiday Spiced Ice
28 oz. Brewed holiday spice tea
8 Star anise
8 Clementine half wheels
Edible gold flakes Fill a 2×2” 8-cube silicon ice cube tray with 3-½ oz. of tea each. Top with half clementine wheel, star anise and edible gold flakes. Freeze. The mixologists at Mumm created this recipe.
28 oz. Brewed holiday spice tea
8 Star anise
8 Clementine half wheels
Edible gold flakes Fill a 2×2” 8-cube silicon ice cube tray with 3-½ oz. of tea each. Top with half clementine wheel, star anise and edible gold flakes. Freeze. The mixologists at Mumm created this recipe.
Pomme Poire Spritz
Ingredients
1 ½ oz. Mathilde Poire liqueur½ oz. Laird’s apple brandy½ oz. St. Germain3 oz. Pierre Sparr Crement D’Alscace sparkling wineSplash of club soda
Instructions
Build drink directly into glass.
Topping with sparkling wine and soda.
Garnish with a dehydrated apple chip.
Notes
Enrique Diaz, head bartender at Bar Bastion, created this recipe for Le Jardinier in New York.
French 24
Ingredients
1 oz. Tequila¾ oz. Pomegranate juice2 oz. Grapefruit sodaTop with Josh Cellars rosé prosecco
Instructions
Combine tequila, juice and soda in a glass.
Top off with prosecco.
Notes
The mixologists at Josh Cellars created this recipe.
California Royale
Ingredients
1 oz. Argonaut Fat Thumb brandy½ oz. Fresh lemon juice½ oz. Cranberry juice cocktail2 ½ oz. Dry sparkling wine1 dash Vanilla extract
Instructions
Combine all ingredients in a shaker tin except the sparkling wine.
Shake with ice and strain into a coupe glass.
Top with sparkling wine.
Garnish with a thyme sprig and a fresh cranberry.
Notes
The mixologists at Argonaut created this recipe.
Aurora 709
Ingredients
1 ½ oz. Crystal Head Aurora vodka¾ oz. Blueberry syrup¾ oz. Fresh lemon juiceBlueberriesTop with sparkling wine
Instructions
In a cocktail shaker add vodka, lemon juice, blueberry syrup and 4-5 blueberries.
Muddle and shake over ice for 10-15 seconds.
Double strain into a chilled coupe glass.
Top with sparkling wine and garnish with a lemon zest ribbon.
Notes
The mixologists at Crystal Head created this recipe.
Raspberry Wheat 75
Ingredients
½ oz. Old Elk wheat whiskey¼ oz. Raspberry simple syrup¼ oz. LemonSparkling rosé
Instructions
Combine all ingredients except wine and shake.
Strain into flute glass.
Top with sparkling rosé.
Garnish with fresh raspberry.
Notes
The mixologists at Old Elk created this recipe.
Liquid Gold Sparkler
Ingredients
2 oz. Aberfeldy 12 Year Old Scotch¼ oz. Maraschino liqueur¼ oz. Lemon juice½ oz. Cointreau
Instructions
Rim a wine glass with golden sugar.
Pour all ingredients and stir.
Notes
The mixologists at Aberfeldy created this recipe.
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