Bellini Cocktail Recipe | How To Make a Bellini
The Bellini was born in Venice, in Harry's Bar, sometime around 1948, and it has never really left. Giuseppe Cipriani created it, tinted the colour of a saint's robe in a Giovanni Bellini painting,...
Mai Tai Cocktail Recipe | How To Make a Mai Tai
The Mai Tai has spent decades being ruined by beach bars, buried under pineapple juice, fruit skewers and little paper umbrellas until nobody remembers what it is actually meant to taste like. The ...
French 75 Cocktail Recipe | How To Make a French 75
The French 75 is one of the most elegant cocktails ever made, and one of the most dangerous. It looks like a glass of celebration, all bubbles and lemon twist, but underneath the champagne there is...
Tequila Sunrise Cocktail Recipe | How To Make a Tequila Sunrise
The Tequila Sunrise is pure theatre in a glass. That gradient from deep red at the bottom up to bright orange at the top is not food colouring or clever bartending, it happens all by itself, and it...
Whiskey Sour Cocktail Recipe | How To Make a Whiskey Sour
The Whiskey Sour is the drink that converts people who think they do not like whiskey. That sharp hit of fresh lemon, a touch of sugar to round it off and a silky foam on top, it takes the whiskey ...
Paloma Cocktail Recipe | How To Make a Paloma
Ask for a tequila cocktail in Mexico and you are far more likely to be handed a Paloma than a Margarita. It is the everyday drink there, the one people actually make at home, long and fizzy and bui...
Negroni Cocktail Recipe | How To Make a Negroni
The Negroni is the drink that separates the casual sipper from the proper cocktail lover, and I mean that fondly. It is bold, it is bittersweet, and it is made from just three ingredients in equal ...
Old Fashioned Cocktail Recipe | How To Make an Old Fashioned
The Old Fashioned is the drink that separates people who like whiskey from people who like hiding whiskey. There is nowhere for it to hide here, no juice, no fizz, no cream, just whiskey, a whisper...
Cosmopolitan Cocktail Recipe | How To Make a Cosmo
The Cosmopolitan has spent twenty years living down its own reputation. Thanks to a certain nineties TV show it got filed away as a girly, dated, slightly naff drink, which is a real shame, because...
Peach On The Beach Cocktail Recipe
Peach On The Beach is summer in a glass. It is juicy, it is easy, and it is the kind of drink that disappears far too quickly in a garden on a warm afternoon. It is our fruity, peach-led take on th...
Elderflower Breeze Cocktail Recipe
The Elderflower Breeze is my kind of summer drink. It is light, it is floral, and it is the sort of thing you can sip in a garden all afternoon without it knocking you sideways. It is our take on t...
Blue Daiquiri Cocktail Recipe
The Blue Daiquiri is the drink that makes a table turn and look. It is that electric blue, it is sharp with lime, and it tastes like a holiday you did not have to book. I have been making these for...