Top 10 Classic Cocktails
Like the music you love listen to, the classic cocktails are classics for good reasons. Classic cocktails are the drinks James Bond sipped in style, with no apologies, a cherry behind his ear. A classic cocktail isn't necessarily good or bad. It just is. Like you.
Old Fashioned
- Woodford Reserve bourbon whiskey
- Bitters
- Muddled orange and cherry
- Sugar
Woodford Reserve bourbon whiskey with muddled orange and cherry, sugar and bitters.
Pina Colada
- Havana Club Anejo Especial rum
- Coconut cream
- Pineapple juice
- Orange juice
- Pineapple juice
Havana Club Anejo Especial rum blended with coconut cream, pineapple and orange and pineapple juices.
Mai Tai
- Appleton Estate rum
- Orange curacao liqueur
- Orgeat syrup
- Grenadine syrup
- Fresh lemon juice
- Lemon juice
- Pineapple juice
Appleton Estate rum, orange curacao, orgeat syrup, grenadine, fresh lemon juice, bottled lemon and pineapple juices.
Scorpion
- Bacardi 8 Year Old Rum
- Cognac
- Lime
- Orgeat syrup
- Orange juice
Bacardi 8 Year Old Rum, cognac, lime, Orgeat syrup and orange juice. Served straight up.
Drambuie is a sweet, golden colored 80-proof liqueur made from malt whisky, honey, herbs, and spices. Produced in Broxburn, West Lothian, Scotland.
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Negroni
- Beefeater gin
- Sweet vermouth
- Campari bitters
Beefeater gin, sweet vermouth & Campari served on rocks.
Black Russian
- Russian Standard vodka
- Kahlúa liqueur
Russian Standard vodka and Kahlúa served on the rocks.
Zombie
- Mount Gay rum
- Gosling's rum
- Apricot brandy
- Orange curaçao liqueur
- Orgeat syrup
- Lemon
- Orange juice
- Pineapple juice
Mount Gay and Gosling's rum with apricot brandy, orange curaçao liqueur, orgeat syrup, lemon, orange and pineapple juices.
Manhattan
- Woodford Reserve bourbon whiskey
- Vermouth
- Bitters
Woodford Reserve bourbon whiskey with vermouth and bitters. Choose sweet, dry or perfect vermouth.
Brandy Alexander
- Cognac
- Chocolate liqueur
- Cream
Cognac, chocolate liqueur and cream. Served atraight up or blended with ice cream and garnished with grounded nutmeg.
Stinger
- Brandy
- White crème de menthe
Brandy vigourously shaken with white crème de menthe, served straight up or on the rocks. Can also be made with vodka.
Cointreau is a brand of triple sec produced in Saint-Barthélemy-d'Anjou, France. It is drunk as an apéritif and digestif, and is a component of several well-known champagne coctails.
Rusty Nail
- Dewars scotch whisky
- Drambuie liqueur
Dewars scotch whisky and Drambuie liqueur served on the rocks.
Triple Sec, originally Curaçao triple sec, is a variety of Curacao liqueur, an orange-flavoured liqueur made from the dried peels of bitter and sweet orange. Curaçao is an Caribbean island just north of Venezuela.
Sazerac
- Bourbon or rye whiskey
- Aromatic bitters
- Sugar
- Water
- Absinthe
Woodford Reserve bourbon or rye whiskey, aromatic bitters, sugar and water served without ice in an absinthe rinsed glass.
Margarita
- Cazadores Blanco tequila
- Triple sec
- Citrus juice
Cazadores Blanco tequila, triple sec and citrus juice. Served straight up, frozen or on the rocks in a salt rimmed glass.
Sweet, dry or perfect? Dry cocktail is made with dry vermouth, sweet with sweet vermouth and perfect is equal parts of both.
Blood and Sand
- Dewars scotch whisky
- Cherry brandy
- Sweet vermouth
- Orange juice
Dewars scotch whisky shaken with cherry brandy, sweet vermouth and orange juice, served straight up.
White Lady
- Beefeater gin
- Cointreau liqueur
- Sweet and sour
Beefeater gin and Cointreau shaken with sweet & sour. Served straight up.
Side Car
- Cognac
- Cointreau liqueur
- Fresh lemon juice
Cognac, Cointreau and fresh lemon juice. Served straight up in a sugar rimmed glass.
Bloody Mary
- Vodka
- Tomato juice
- Worchester sauce
- Tobasco sauce
- Pepper
- Celery
- Salt
- Citrus juice
Bloody Mary is mixed of vodka and tomato juice spiced with Worchester sauce, Tobasco sauce, pepper, celery, salt and citrus juices.
Rob Roy
- Dewars scotch whisky
- vermouth
- Bitters
Dewars scotch whisky with vermouth and bitters. Choose from sweet, dry or perfect.
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Grenadine is traditionally a red syrup, used as an ingredient in cocktails, both for its flavor and to give a reddish or pink tinge to mixed drinks. "Grenadines" are also made by mixing the syrup with cold water in a glass or pitcher, sometimes with ice.
Orgeat syrup is a sweet syrup made from almonds, sugar and rose water or orange flower water.
Crème de menthe is a sweet, mint-flavored beverage that is used in cocktails and comes in white or green.
Bitters is an alcoholic beverage flavored with herbal essences and has a bitter or bittersweet flavor. Bitters commonly have an alcoholic strength of 45% ABV and are used as digestifs and as flavoring in cocktails. Bitters are a common bar ingredient that was considered a necessity in early bars and are becoming popular again.
Curacao is a liqueur flavored with the dried peel of the laraha citrus fruit, grown on the island of Curaçao.
Campari bitters is an alcoholic 20.5%..28% ABV apéritif obtained from the infusion of herbs and fruit. Campari is characterized by its dark red color. Campari bitters is often used in cocktails and is commonly served with soda water, wine, or citrus juice. It is produced by the Campari Group, a multi-national company based in Italy.
Kahlúa is a Mexican coffee liqueur made from shade grown, hand-selected 100% Arabica coffee beans, vanilla beans and sugarcane. Kahlúa has become the number one selling coffee liqueur in the world.
Absinthe is 45–74% ABV anise-flavoured spirit derived from botanicals including wormwood, green anise, sweet fennel and other herbs. Absinthe traditionally has a natural green colour but may also be colourless. Absinthe is bottled without any added sugar and thus is spirit not a liqueur. Any psychoactive properties attributed to thujone containing absinthe, apart from that of the alcohol, are much exaggerated.
Vermouth is a fortified wine flavoured with a range of roots, spices, fruits or herbs and produced mainly in France and Italy. The name "vermouth" comes from the German word Wermut for wormwood that has been used as an ingredient in the drink over its history.
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