Alpine Apricot Sparkler
A characterful cocktail built around brandy, apricot liqueur and sparkling wine cordial, finished with a clean, memorable lift.
Ingredients: Brandy, Apricot liqueur, Sparkling wine cordial, sparkling wine. Serve well chilled.
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Brunch Cocktails Worth Pouring
A good brunch cocktail has to hit a different mood from a late-night drink. It should feel fresh, lifted and sociable, with enough flavour to be memorable but not so much weight that it takes over the table. This collection brings together active cocktails that suit weekend brunches, long lunches and daytime celebrations: peach drinks, citrus fizzes, sparkling serves, coffee cocktails, berry spritzes, garden flavours and light highballs.
The strength of brunch cocktails is variety. Some people want bubbles and fruit. Some want citrus and refreshment. Some want a coffee cocktail that feels like a treat. Others want something herbal, floral or gently tropical. This collection gives you options across all of those moods while keeping the overall feeling bright and easy. If you are building a brunch drinks menu, this is the kind of list that makes the table feel instantly more generous.
A good brunch cocktail has to hit a different mood from a late-night drink. It should feel fresh, lifted and sociable, with enough flavour to be memorable but not so much weight that it takes over the table. This collection brings together active cocktails that suit weekend brunches, long lunches and daytime celebrations: peach drinks, citrus fizzes, sparkling serves, coffee cocktails, berry spritzes, garden flavours and light highballs.
The strength of brunch cocktails is variety. Some people want bubbles and fruit. Some want citrus and refreshment. Some want a coffee cocktail that feels like a treat. Others want something herbal, floral or gently tropical. This collection gives you options across all of those moods while keeping the overall feeling bright and easy. If you are building a brunch drinks menu, this is the kind of list that makes the table feel instantly more generous.
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Aperol Spritz
A sparkling, refreshing aperitif with orange bitters.
Ingredients: Aperol, prosecco, soda water. Serve over ice with an orange slice.
Bellini
Bellini is fresh, sparkling and social, with Prosecco and Peach puree giving the drink a clearer flavour story and a more useful reason to make it.
Ingredients: Prosecco, Peach puree
Bloody Mary
A savory, spiced cocktail perfect for brunch.
Ingredients: Vodka, tomato juice, lemon, Worcestershire sauce, hot sauce.
Breakfast Martini
Breakfast Martini is sharp, lively and properly structured, with Gin, triple sec, lemon juice and orange marmalade giving the drink a clearer flavour story and a more useful reason to make it.
Ingredients: Gin, triple sec, lemon juice, orange marmalade, and ice. Shake and strain.
Cantarito Fiesta
A Mexican-inspired tequila citrus highball with grapefruit, orange, lime and fizz. Bright, salty, lively and made for sharing.
Ingredients: Blanco tequila, grapefruit juice, orange juice, lime juice, grapefruit soda. Build over ice.
Champagne Cocktail
One of the simplest historic sparkling cocktails: Champagne, a bitters-soaked sugar cube and aromatic lemon oil.
Ingredients: 1 sugar cube; 2 dashes Angostura bitters; 100 ml chilled Champagne.
Champagne Orchard
A characterful cocktail built around calvados, apple liqueur and sparkling wine cordial, finished with a clean, memorable lift.
Ingredients: Calvados, Apple liqueur, Sparkling wine cordial, sparkling wine. Serve well chilled.
Citrus Aisle Sparkler
A characterful cocktail built around vodka, mandarin liqueur and champagne cordial, finished with a clean, memorable lift.
Ingredients: Vodka, Mandarin liqueur, Champagne cordial, sparkling wine. Serve well chilled.
Citrus Breeze
A bright vodka highball with cranberry, grapefruit and lime. Tart, juicy, crisp and easy to build.
Ingredients: Vodka, cranberry juice, grapefruit juice, lime juice. Build over ice.
Espresso Martini
A rich, coffee-flavoured cocktail with vodka and espresso.
Ingredients: Vodka, fresh espresso, coffee liqueur, and sugar syrup.
Espresso Orange Tonic
A characterful cocktail built around vodka, espresso syrup and citrus juice, finished with a clean, memorable lift.
Ingredients: Vodka, Espresso syrup, citrus juice, Orange cordial, Soda water. Serve well chilled.
French 75
A classic champagne cocktail with gin and lemon.
Ingredients: Gin, lemon juice, simple syrup, champagne. Serve chilled.
Fuzzy Navel
A simple peach schnapps and orange juice mixed drink. Soft, fruity, unfussy and ideal when you want something easy.
Ingredients: Peach schnapps, orange juice. Build over ice.
Gin Fizz
A refreshing gin cocktail with lemon and soda.
Ingredients: Gin, Lemon Juice, Simple Syrup, Soda Water.
Golden Fig Flip
A characterful cocktail built around brandy, fig syrup and nutmeg liqueur, finished with a clean, memorable lift.
Ingredients: Brandy, Fig syrup, Nutmeg liqueur, whole egg. Serve well chilled.
Hugo Spritz
A light and floral elderflower spritz with prosecco, soda water, and mint, served in a wine glass.
Ingredients: Prosecco, elderflower, and soda water.
Kahlua Cold Brew Highball
A long coffee cocktail with vodka, Kahlua, cold brew and soda. Light, fizzy, chilled and gently bittersweet.
Ingredients: Vodka, coffee liqueur, cold brew coffee, soda water. Build over ice.
Lavender Lemon Drop
A characterful cocktail built around vodka, lavender liqueur and lemon modifier, finished with a clean, memorable lift.
Ingredients: Vodka, Lavender liqueur, Lemon modifier. Serve well chilled.
Lemon Silk Highball
A characterful cocktail built around vodka, lemon syrup and citrus juice, finished with a clean, memorable lift.
Ingredients: Vodka, Lemon syrup, citrus juice, Honey cordial, Soda water. Serve well chilled.
Limoncello Collins
A tall gin and limoncello Collins with fresh lemon and soda. Bright, easy, botanical and perfect for aperitif-style sipping.
Ingredients: Gin, limoncello, lemon juice, simple syrup, soda water. Shake and top.
Limoncello Spritz
A sparkling and citrusy cocktail that blends sweet, zesty limoncello with bubbly prosecco and a splash of soda for a refreshing Mediterranean aperitivo.
Ingredients Limoncello, Prosecco
Marmalade Cooler
A characterful cocktail built around vodka, orange marmalade syrup and citrus juice, finished with a clean, memorable lift.
Ingredients: Vodka, Orange marmalade syrup, citrus juice, Lemon cordial, Soda water. Serve well chilled.
Mimosa
Mimosa is bright, bubbly and built for the first round, with Champagne and fresh orange juice giving the drink a clearer flavour story and a more useful reason to make it.
Ingredients: Champagne and fresh orange juice
Negroni Sbagliato
A lighter, sparkling Negroni relative in which sparkling wine replaces gin alongside Campari and sweet vermouth.
Ingredients: 30 ml sweet vermouth; 30 ml Campari; 60 ml chilled Prosecco.
Peach Bourbon Smash
A refreshing and fruity bourbon cocktail with fresh peaches, mint, and lemon, served in a rocks glass.
Ingredients: Bourbon, fresh peaches, mint and lemon.
Peach Vows Bellini
A characterful cocktail built around prosecco, peach liqueur and vanilla cordial, finished with a clean, memorable lift.
Ingredients: Prosecco, Peach liqueur, Vanilla cordial, sparkling wine. Serve well chilled.
Pearl Ginger Highball
A characterful cocktail built around vodka, pear syrup and citrus juice, finished with a clean, memorable lift.
Ingredients: Vodka, Pear syrup, citrus juice, Ginger cordial, Soda water. Serve well chilled.
Poolside Breeze
A characterful cocktail built around vodka, watermelon syrup and citrus juice, finished with a clean, memorable lift.
Ingredients: Vodka, Watermelon syrup, citrus juice, Mint cordial, Soda water. Serve well chilled.
Ramos Gin Fizz
A creamy and frothy gin cocktail with citrus and orange blossom.
Ingredients: Gin, Lemon Juice, Lime Juice, Cream, Egg White, Simple Syrup, Orange Blossom Water, Soda Water.
Sea Breeze
A light and refreshing vodka cocktail with cranberry and grapefruit juice served in a highball glass over ice.
Ingredients: Vodka, cranberry juice, and grapefruit juice.
Shaft
A cold-brew coffee cocktail with vodka, Irish cream and coffee liqueur: creamy, caffeinated and built for a short, cold serve.
Ingredients: 60 ml cold brew coffee; 30 ml vodka; 30 ml Irish cream; 15 ml coffee liqueur.
Strawberry Balsamic Sparkler
A characterful cocktail built around gin, strawberry liqueur and balsamic cordial, finished with a clean, memorable lift.
Ingredients: Gin, Strawberry liqueur, Balsamic cordial, sparkling wine. Serve well chilled.