Time to ring in a new year and hope that 2022 is not as tumultuous as the past two years. New Year’s Eve (and Day) cocktails don’t have to include Champagne, of course. But we tend to prefer it when they do sparkle. Here are seven cocktails we like to bid 2021 farewell. (And if you’d like more bubbly recipes, here’s our New Year’s drinks roundup from 2020.)
Mistletoe Mimosa
Ingredients
- ½ oz. Elderflower liqueur
- 2 drops Orange water
- Splash cranberry juice
- Sparkling wine
Instructions
- Rim a Champagne flute halfway with sugar.
- Build ingredients in glass.
- Garnish with a fresh cranberry and rosemary sprig.
Notes
The mixologists at The Breakfast Club in Hollywood, CA, created this recipe.
The Golden Fizz
Ingredients
- 4 oz. Moët & Chandon Brut Impérial Champagne
- 2 oz. Ginger tumeric tea
- 5 oz. Honey syrup
- 5 oz. Lemon juice
- 4 drops Cardamom bitters
Instructions
- Build ingredients in a wine glass.
- Add ice and gently stir with a bar spoon.
- Garnish with a dehydrated lemon wheel.
Notes
The mixologists at Moët & Chandon created this recipe.
Holiday Sparkler
Ingredients
- 2 oz. Tequila
- ¾ oz. Cointreau
- ¾ oz. Fresh lime juice
- 1 Rosemary sprig
- Blood orange soda
Instructions
- Add tequila, Cointreau, lime juice and rosemary sprig into a shaker.
- Add ice and shake.
- Fine strain over ice in a highball glass.
- Finish with blood orange soda and garnish.
Notes
The mixologists at Cointreau created this recipe.
La Fête
Ingredients
- 1 ½ oz. Ketel One Grapefruit Rose botanical vodka
- ½ oz. St. Germaine elderflower liqueur
- ½ oz. Fresh lemon juice
- Top with Faire La Fête Brut sparkling wine
Instructions
- Add all ingredients except sparkling wine to a shaker with ice.
- Shake vigorously and strain into glass.
- Top with sparkling wine.
- Garnish with a grapefruit twist.
Notes
Ravin Buzzell (@ravinaboutcocktails) created this recipe.
Hawaiian New Year’s Cocktail
Ingredients
- 4 oz. Koloa Kauai Reserve rum
- 4 oz. Passion fruit juice
- 2 oz. Passion fruit syrup
- 1 oz. Fresh lemon juice
- 1 oz. Pineapple gum syrup
- 4-6 dashes Tiki bitters Bittermen’s brand
- Prosecco sparkling wine or Brut Champagne
Instructions
- For two servings: Combine all the cocktail ingredients up to bitters in a cocktail shaker.
- Add ice and shake well.
- Place a large ice cube (or large ice square) into 2 glasses then fill 2/3 of the way with the cocktail.
- Top with prosecco or sparkling wine.
- Garnish with fresh passion fruit halves.
Notes
Shanna Schad of PineappleandCoconut.com created this recipe.
Fizzy Plum
Ingredients
- 2 Fresh whole plums or figs
- 1 tbsp. Brown sugar
- ¼ cup Bourbon
- ½ cup Cavit prosecco
Instructions
- Muddle one fig with the brown sugar.
- Add bourbon and ice cubes and shake to combine.
- Strain into a glass over ice and top with prosecco.
- Garnish with fresh fig.
Notes
The mixologists at Cavit created this recipe.
Just In Thyme
Ingredients
- ½ oz. Black Button Distilling citrus-forward gin
- 1 oz. Thyme syrup
- Champagne
Instructions
- For thyme syrup, combine equal parts sugar and boiling water with fresh thyme.
- Steep for 20 minutes, strain and cool.
- For cocktail, combine gin and thyme syrup in a cocktail shaker.
- Shake and strain into Champagne flute.
- Top with Champagne.
- Garnish with a few cranberries. (For extra bling, rim glass with edible glue and edible glitter.)
Notes
The mixologists at Black Button created this recipe.
Far From the Tree
Ingredients
- 1 ½ parts Redemption Rye whiskey
- 2 parts Apple cider
- 2 parts Prosecco
- ½ part Lemon juice
- Barspoon Cardamom honey
Instructions
- For cardamom honey add 5-10 cardamom pods to a ratio of 1:1 honey and water.
- Heat on low until honey is dissolved in water and cardamom is fragrant.
- Let sit for a few hours to cool.
- Ƒor cocktail, shake all ingredients except prosecco with ice.
- Pour into a Champagne flute.
- Top with prosecco.
Notes
The mixologists at Redemption created this recipe.
