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Top 10 festive fizz Christmas cocktails

Pop the Champagne, it's Christmas time! We're going to help you raise a glass in style with ten top festive fizz recipes that will bring more sparkle to the season than tinsel made of shooting stars.

Cocktail ideas

Build your own
Cotswolds Dry Gin English 75
Classic Champagne Cocktail
Scotch & Rosemary Highball
Gingle Bell Fizz
Jura 10 Sunset
Duppy Blitz
Bucking Hell Buck’s Fizz
Jameson The Bow St. Collins
Mijenta Blanco Tequila New Beginnings
Axia Sparkler

Contributed by

Adam O'Connell, writer at Master of Malt

Cotswolds Dry Gin English 75

Matt Looker, creator of the Snowy Grasshopper

A delightfully English twist on the French classic, using gin from the Cotswolds and sparkling wine from our home county, Kent.

Ingredients:

15ml lemon juice

15ml sugar syrup (made to a 1:1 recipe if homemade)

A twist of lemon peel to garnish

Method:

Pour the lemon juice, sugar syrup and gin into a cocktail shaker then fill up with ice. Shake and strain into a Champagne flute. Top with sparkling wine and gently stir. Garnish with a twist of lemon peel.

  • Prep Time: 2 minutes
  • Serves: 1 person

Classic Champagne Cocktail

Matt Looker, creator of the Snowy Grasshopper

The Classic Champagne Cocktail, perfect for this time of year when we’re all about traditions. Use a nice, light, fruity Cognac so as not to overwhelm things.

Ingredients:

A few dashes of Angostura Bitters

A sugar cube

An orange twist to garnish.

Method:

Place the sugar cube on a small dish and drizzle with the Angostura Bitters. Make sure it’s fully coated then drop the cube into a Champagne flute or goblet and add the Cognac. Slowly pour over the Champagne and twist the orange peel over to express the oils, then loop around the stem of the glass to garnish.

  • Prep Time: 5
  • Serves: 1 person

Scotch & Rosemary Highball

Matt Looker, creator of the Snowy Grasshopper

Think you can’t mix single malt Scotch whisky or have never been a whisky fan in general? Think again. This cocktail is easy, delicious, and an instant crowd-pleaser at your upcoming holiday gathering (or any occasion, really).

Ingredients:

Ginger beer to top

A rosemary sprig to garnish

Method:

Fill a tall glass with ice then pour The Glenlivet in followed by the ginger beer to the top. Stir gently and then garnish with rosemary.

  • Prep Time: 2 minutes
  • Serves: 1 person

Gingle Bell Fizz

Matt Looker, creator of the Snowy Grasshopper

A festive gin with a healthy dose of punnery, That Boutique-y Gin Company's GINgle All The Way sports a seasonal snow globe on the label that gives away its botanical recipe. We can spot cocoa, bitter orange, ginger and cardamom. For a zesty festive serve, we’re adding a splash of blood orange to this one.

Ingredients:

50ml blood orange juice

50ml soda

A pomander ball (clove-studded orange) slice to garnish.

Method:

Add gin and ice to a goblet, top with blood orange juice and soda, then gently stir. Garnish with a clove-studded orange slice.

  • Prep Time: 2 minutes
  • Serves: 1 person

Jura 10 Sunset

Matt Looker, creator of the Snowy Grasshopper

A summery escape of a cocktail for people who want an escape or holiday this time of year, combining Jura whisky and Aperol in a super Scotchy Spritz.

Ingredients:

25ml Aperol

Top up with premium tonic

An orange wedge to garnish.

Method:

Build over loads of ice in the biggest wine glass you can find. Garnish with a large orange wedge.

  • Prep Time: 2 minutes
  • Serves: 1 person

Duppy Blitz

Matt Looker, creator of the Snowy Grasshopper

Rum and ginger is a classic that you can’t go wrong with. But you can take things up a notch with the addition of some sparkling wine. Yummy.

Ingredients:

15ml ginger cordial

Method:

Build chilled into a flute or wine glass.

  • Prep Time: 1 minutes
  • Serves: 1 person

Bucking Hell Buck’s Fizz

Matt Looker, creator of the Snowy Grasshopper

You could make a Buck’s Fizz this Christmas. Perfectly delicious and reasonable. Or you can add the Cognac-based orange liqueur that is Grand Marnier and really get the party started.

Ingredients:

45ml fresh orange juice

Champagne to top.

An orange twist to garnish.

Method:

Add the Grand Marnier and orange juice to a goblet glass filled with ice and stir. Top with Champagne and then garnish with an orange twist.

  • Prep Time: 2 minutes
  • Serves: 1 person

Jameson The Bow St. Collins

Matt Looker, creator of the Snowy Grasshopper

A delicious spin on a Tom Collins with Jameson, Lillet Blanc and elderflower.

Ingredients:

30ml lemon juice

90ml soda water

A twist of lemon peel to garnish

Method:

Combine your Jameson Original, Lillet Blanc, elderflower liqueur and lemon juice together and stir. Pour into a Highball glass filled with cubed ice and stir once more, before topping up with soda water. Garnish with a lemon twist.

  • Prep Time: 2 minutes
  • Serves: 1 person

Mijenta Blanco Tequila New Beginnings

Matt Looker, creator of the Snowy Grasshopper

A tasty Tequila-based serve that involves a bit of creativity but rewards you with class and charm. Look how pretty it is too.

Ingredients:

35ml Mijenta Blanco Tequila infused with lemon verbena*

15ml (truffle) honey syrup

15ml lemon juice

Prosecco to top.

A slice of dehydrated pear to garnish.

*For lemon verbena-infused Tequila:

Fresh lemon verbena leaves

Method:

To make the lemon verbena-infused Tequila: Rinse the lemon verbena leaves under cold water to clean and pat gently clean with a dry towel, then clean and steralize a glass container or jar with a tight-fitting lid. Place the dried lemon verbena leaves in. Around 3-4 leaves per 250ml of Tequila is about right but you can adjust to taste. Pour in the Mijenta Blanco Tequila (keep the bottle!) and ensure the leaves are fully submerged then tightly seal the container. Allow the Tequila to infuse for about 24 to 48 hours, depending on how strong you want the lemon verbena flavour, once it tastes right to you then strain out the lemon verbena leaves using a fine-mesh strainer or cheesecloth and transfer the infused Tequila back into its bottle and enjoy. 

To make the Mijenta Blanco Tequila New Beginnings: Shake all ingredients, except Prosecco, over ice and strain into a flute glass. Top with Prosecco and garnish with a slice of dehydrated pear.

  • Prep Time: 2 minutes
  • Serves: 1 person

Axia Sparkler

Matt Looker, creator of the Snowy Grasshopper

Festive fizz Christmas cocktails don’t have to be fabulously French and all Champagne-like. This refreshing serve is based on the gorgeous Greek drink Axia!

Ingredients:

Prosecco to top

Three sugar-coated cranberries to garnish

Method:

Coat the rim of a Champagne flute with sugar. Pour Axia and elderflower liqueur into the flute and top with Prosecco. Garnish with three sugar-coated cranberries.

  • Prep Time: 2 minutes
  • Serves: 1 person

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