The most celebrated classic cocktails
20 recipes
A margarita is a cocktail consisting of tequila, orange liqueur, and lime juice often served with salt on the rim of the glass.
A mojito is a traditional Cuban highball. The cocktail often consists of five ingredients: white rum, sugar, lime juice, soda water, and mint.
An Old Fashioned is a cocktail made by muddling sugar with bitters and water, adding whiskey or, less commonly, brandy, and garnishing with orange slice or zest and a cocktail cherry.
A Negroni is an Italian cocktail, made of one part gin, one part vermouth rosso, and one part Campari, garnished with orange peel.
A cosmopolitan, or informally a cosmo, is a cocktail made with vodka, triple sec, cranberry juice, and freshly squeezed or sweetened lime juice.
A Manhattan is a cocktail made with whiskey, sweet vermouth, and bitters. It is commonly garnished with a Maraschino cherry.
A daiquiri is a family of cocktails whose main ingredients are rum, citrus juice, and sugar or other sweetener.
A Long Island iced tea is a type of alcoholic mixed drink typically made with vodka, tequila, light rum, triple sec, gin, and a splash of cola.
A Moscow mule is a cocktail consisting of vodka, spicy ginger beer, and lime juice, garnished with a slice or wedge of lime.
A whiskey sour is a mixed drink containing whiskey, lemon juice, sugar, and optionally, a dash of egg white.
A gin and tonic is a highball cocktail made with gin and tonic water poured over a large amount of ice.
A Bloody Mary is a cocktail containing vodka, tomato juice, and other spices and flavorings including Worcestershire sauce, hot sauce, garlic, herbs, horseradish, celery, olives, pickled peppers, and lemon juice.
A pina colada is a sweet cocktail made with rum, coconut cream or coconut milk, and pineapple juice, usually served either blended or shaken with ice.
A tequila sunrise is a cocktail made of tequila, orange juice, and grenadine syrup, named for its resemblance to a sunrise when made correctly.
The Aperol Spritz is an Italian wine-based cocktail, commonly served as an aperitivo. It consists of Prosecco, Aperol, and soda water.
An espresso martini is a cold caffeinated alcoholic drink made with vodka, espresso coffee, coffee liqueur, and sugar syrup.
A Dark n Stormy is a highball cocktail made with dark rum and ginger beer, served on the rocks.
A sidecar is a cocktail traditionally made with Cognac, orange liqueur, and lemon juice.
A paloma is a tequila-based cocktail. The drink is made by mixing tequila with grapefruit-flavored soda and lime juice.
A mint julep is a mixed alcoholic drink, or cocktail, consisting primarily of bourbon, fresh mint, water, and sugar.