Five Fall Drinks for 2025

Autumn is nearly here, and the cooler weather always makes us yearn for slightly heartier drinks that incorporate seasonal flavors. Here are five recipes we like for this year.

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Heirloom Garden

Course Drinks

Keyword Campari, celery bitters, chickory, gin, Maraschino liqueur, sweet vermouth

Ingredients

• 1 oz. Sundried tomato-infused Bombay London Dry Gin
• ¼ oz. Celery bitter
• ¼ oz. Roasted chicory maraschino
• ½ oz. Sweet vermouth
• ½ oz. Campari

Instructions

• Combine ingredients and stir.
• Strain into glass over large rock.
• Garnish with dehydrated heirloom tomato, nasturtium leaf/nasturtium flower and bergamot spray.

Notes

The mixologists at Bar Chef New York created this recipe.

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Calvados Spritz

Course Drinks

Keyword apricot liqueur, Calvados, hard cider, lemon

Ingredients

• 1 ½ oz. Coquerel Calvados
• ¾ oz. Giffard apricot liqueur
• ¼ oz. Lemon juice
• Top with cider such as Patois “Morris”

Instructions

• Build in shaker everything except for the cider.
• Shake and strain into a wine glass over ice.
• Top with cider.
• Garnish with dried apple slice.

Notes

Lindsay Dukes, beverage director of Maria’s Oyster & Wine Bar and Le Moyne Bistro in New Orleans, created this recipe.

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Poppy Dunn

Course Drinks

Keyword blackberry, Creme de Violette liqueur, Hendrick’s gin, lemon, plum liqueur

Ingredients

• 1 oz. Hendrick’s Grand Cabaret gin
• 1 oz. Crème de violette
• 1 oz. Averell Plum Damson gin liqueur
• 1 oz. Lemon juice
• Blackberries
• Egg white

Instructions

• Combine ingredients and dry shake.
• Add ice and shake again.
• Pour into glass Collins glass.
• Garnish with blackberries on a pick.

Notes

Simon Patino, bar manager at Peter Kern Library at The Oliver Hotel, in Knoxville, TN, created this recipe.

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Fig & Rosemary Smash

Course Drinks

Keyword bourbon, fig, honey syrup, lime, rosemary

Ingredients

• 2 oz. Good Trouble bourbon
• 2 Fresh figs muddled
• ½ oz. Honey syrup 1:1 ratio of honey and water
• ½ oz. Fresh lime juice
• Fresh rosemary sprig

Instructions

• In a shaker, muddle fresh figs.
• Add bourbon, honey syrup and lime juice.
• Shake well and strain into a rocks glass filled with ice.
• Garnish with a fresh rosemary sprig.

Notes

The mixologists at Good Trouble created this recipe.

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Spiced Apple Margarita

Course Drinks

Keyword agave, apple cider, cinnamon, lime, tequila

Ingredients

• 2 oz. Lalo tequila
• 1 ½ oz. Apple cider
• ¾ oz. Lime juice
• ¾ oz. Agave
• Dash ground cinnamon
• Salt rim: mix turbinado sugar salt, cinnamon

Instructions

• Combine tequila, apple cider, lime juice, agave nectar and cinnamon in an ice-
• filled shaker tin.
• Shake to chill and dilute.
• Strain into ice-filled rocks glass, rimmed with the sugar/salt/cinnamon mixture. Garnish with apple slices, cinnamon stick and star anise.

Notes

The mixologists at Lalo created this recipe.