Rustle up your favourite cocktails from all over the World

It’s something when you are sipping on a cocktail in glamorous Parisian bar. This sweet cocktail is actually an upgrade of the popular French kir concoction. It is a combination of dry white wine and crème de cassis – a dark, sweet blackcurrant liqueur. The kir royale is gives a more celebratory feel by using champagne. Shake up a batch of this simple, classic cocktail, then enjoy a virtual tour of the Louvre, the Musée d’Orsay.

Cocktail Recipe:

-3 ounce (9 parts) Champagne

-1/3 ounce (1 part) Crème de cassis

The earliest incarnation of this kind of drink can be traced back to ancient Greek and Roman civilisations, where wine was mixed with sugar and spices. Today, however, the cocktail is most associated with Spain. This is thanks to the Roman occupation of the land around 200 BC, when they imported vines and planted vineyards. The grapes flourished in the Mediterranean soil and so the Spanish wine industry was born. As water was unsafe to drink at this time, more palatable drinks were created, including this wine punch. Sangria is actually a variation on the Spanish word for blood (sangre) and is typically made with red wine, brandy, spices and fruit.

Cocktail Recipe:

-1 bottles chilled dry red wine, like Rioja

-1/2 cup brandy

-1/2 cup orange juice

-2 tablespoons superfine granulated sugar

-1 orange, cut into thin rounds; 1 lemon, cut into thin rounds; 3 Key limes, cut into thin rounds; 1 apple, cored and cut into small chunks

-1 cup chilled soda water

For a twist on the recipe, try sangria blanca (made with white white) or sangria de cava (a bubbly version made with sparkling wine).

Despite being somewhat of a late-comer to the cocktail party, the cosmopolitan is a regular on cocktail menus today. Launching onto the scene in the late ’80s and solidifying its status throughout the ’90s, the vodka, triple sec and cranberry concoction was reportedly a favourite among the gay scenes in Miami Beach and Provincetown in Massachusetts. People wanted a drink that had the class of a martini but was easier to drink, but much of the cosmo’s success and association with New York is due to its ubiquity in the cult Sex and the City TV series.

Cocktail Recipe:

-1/2 ounces Fresh lime juice

-1 ounce Cranberry juice

-1/2 ounces Cointreau

-1 1/2 ounces Vodka Citron

Though there’s an ongoing disagreement regarding which country has the rights to this cocktail, most tend to agree it’s a signature Peruvian drink and not originally from Chile. The main ingredient – a potent brandy called pisco – is created in both countries but can be traced back to 16th-century Peru. The country had been invaded by the Spanish Conquistadors, who imported Spanish grapes and planted their own vineyards to create the distilled spirit. In the 1920s, the modern pisco sour cocktail, made with egg whites, lime and Angostura bitters, was created by Victor Vaughen Morris in a bar in Lima. The European Commission officially declared Peru as the owners of the pisco sour in 2013 and every year on the first Saturday in February the zesty national drink is celebrated with its own Pisco Sour Day.

Cocktail Recipe:

-2 ounces pisco

-1 ounce simple syrup

-3/4 ounce lime juice

-1 egg white

-2 to 3 dashes Angostura bitters

The sazerac was officially declared the signature tipple of New Orleans in 2008, but the cocktail has its roots in the 19th century. In the 1830s, Antoine Amédée Peychaud, who ran an apothecary, served his customers toddies made from his secret family recipe of bitters and cognac. His remedial drinks became so popular that a bar known as the Sazerac Coffee House purchased the rights to Peychaud’s bitters and swapped the cognac out for Sazerac rye whiskey.

Cocktail Recipe:

-1 cube sugar

-3 dashes Peychaud’s Bitters

-1 1/2 ounces Sazerac Rye Whiskey

-1/4 ounce Herbsaint

-Lemon peel

The humble Mojito did not begin as the classy cocktail we know it to be today. It was a creative necessity due to the cheap but potent rum found all over Cuba. To make their drinks more palatable, locals would add lime juice, sugarcane and mint. It gained overseas recognition during the Prohibition era when Havana became a favourite among thirsty Americans. This was likely the time the drink gained a nod of approval from Ernest Hemingway, which perhaps solidified its status in the cocktail hall of fame.

Cocktail Recipe:

-1 1/2 ounces White rum

-6 leaves of Mint

-Soda Water

-1 ounce Fresh lime juice

- 2 teaspoons Sugar

The gin-based Pimm’s No. 1 Cup was originally used as a medicinal tonic and quickly developed into a phenomenon. In the 1840s, fishmonger and landlord James Pimm began marketing his own health tonic. Over the next 20 years, the tonic gained popularity as an enjoyable drink. By 1859, the Pimm’s No 1. Cup was being sold commercially and soon reached international waters in the British colonies of Australia, India, Canada and the Caribbean. Still immensely popular in Britain, around 200,000 individual Pimm’s cocktails – made by mixing the liquor with lemonade.

Cocktail Recipe:

-2 ounces Pimm’s No. 1

-4 ounces lemon-lime soda

-Mint sprig, cucumber slice, strawberry slice and apple slice, for garnish

It may feel as though the Aperol Spritz appeared out of nowhere, but Venetians have been sipping this sweet, fizzy cocktail for decades. After the Napoleonic wars when Austria-Hungary occupied the Veneto region of Northern Italy, the German ‘spritz’ was introduced to the region by adding splashes of water to Italian wines. In 1919, Aperol was invented and marketed to sporty women, due to its low alcohol volume. It soon became the liquor of choice in a spritz cocktail, and by the 1950s Aperol had created its signature Spritz.

Cocktail Recipe:

-2 ounces Prosecco

-1 1/4 ounces Aperol

-Splash of Soda water

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If you don’t consume alcohol we have something fun for you too. Here are our favourite easy, delicious, and non-alcoholic recipes you can try. These Mocktail recipes will get your spirits up instantly.

It is still the mango season. Try this recipe with some fresh mangoes. Mango is member of the cashew family and one of the most important and widely cultivated fruits of the tropical world. Muddle cucumber and honey syrup in the bottom of a cocktail shaker and go shaking with the below refreshing ingredients.

Non-Alcoholic Cocktail Recipe:

-4-5 slices of cucumber

-1 ounces honey syrup

-1.5 ounces mango puree

-1.5 ounces fresh lime juice

-1.5 ounces ginger beer Ice

In this a hot sultry day this drink can be truly enlivening. The gimlet rose to popularity after it was mentioned in the 1953 Raymond Chandler novel The Long Goodbye. Before the gimlet became popular in 1953 it is believed that it was served to the sailors in the British Royal Navy. A gimlet is a hand-held drill for boring holes, and would have likely been used on Royal Navy ships. The drink could have been named for its “piercing effect” on the sailors.

Non-Alcoholic Cocktail Recipe:

-1.5 ounces club soda

-4-5 ounces of muddled cucumber

-1 ounce fresh lime juice

-1 ounce simple syrup

Mixed together with grenadine and ginger ale, the drink is topped off with a maraschino cherry.

It is said that in the late 1930s, a bartender at Chasen's in Beverly Hills invented the cocktail. The bartender made the drink for the young actress Shirley Temple, during the pinnacle point of her fame. The sweet concoction would later become a fun drink asked for by kids and adults alike.

Non-Alcoholic Cocktail Recipe:

-3 ounces lemon-lime soda

-3 ounces ginger ale

-Dash grenadine

-Maraschino cherry for garnish

Enjoy these cocktails recipes at home now. Cheers!

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