Winter is upon us and Decanter.com has teamed up with Great British Chefs to bring you five of their most seasonal and festive drink recipes, all sourced from the world's top mixologists and chefs. Stay warm.
Winter Drinks and Cocktails
Mulled wine is one of the first tipples that springs to mind when looking for a beverage that would be perfect to offset the cold outside. Fiona Beckett gave Decanter.com her top recipe tips here last year here: Mulled wine recipe. This year, Great British Chefs have taken this one step further creating winter wine based drinks and cocktails which are sure to give inspiration for the party season and keep you warm outside. Here are Decanter’s top five:
Mulled wine Bellini
by Marcus Wareing at Great British Chefs
Ingredients
For the mulled wine reduction
- 3 cinnamon sticks
- 1 handful of cloves
- 15 black peppercorns
- 20 star anise
- 1 pinch of mace
- nutmeg, grated
- 1 orange, juiced and peeled in strips
- 2l red wine (4 1/4 pints)
- 500g of caster sugar (1 1/8 lb)
To build the cocktail
- 100ml of sparkling wine, preferably Nyetimber Classic Cuvée (3 1/2 fl oz)
- lemon juice to taste, 5-10ml
- 3 cinnamon sticks
- 15 black peppercorns
- 20 star anise
- 1 pinch of mace
- nutmeg
- 1 orange, juiced and peeled in strips
- 2l red wine
- 1 handful of cloves
- 500g of caster sugar
Victory lemonade
Ingredients
Victorian lemonade
- 60ml of Taylor’s 10 Port (2 fl oz)
- 20ml of lemon juice (2/3 fl oz)
- 20ml of orange juice (2/3 fl oz)
- 15g of sugar (1/2 oz)
- 5ml of Fernet Branca (1/4 fl oz)
- ginger beer, to top up
- crushed ice
Garnish
- cherries
- fresh mint leaves
- orange zest
- icing sugar for dusting
Instructions
- crushed ice
- 60ml of Taylor’s 10 Port
- 20ml of lemon juice
- 20ml of orange juice
- 15g of sugar
- 5ml of Fernet Branca
- ginger beer, to top up
- cherries
- fresh mint leaves
- orange zest
- icing sugar for dusting
Ingredients
- 45ml of Amaretto, Soiree (1 1/2 fl oz)
- 15ml of lemon juice, fresh (1/2 fl oz)
- 15ml of lime juice, fresh (1/2 fl oz)
- 1 tsp stock syrup
- Prosecco
- cherries, preferably Maraschino
Instructions
1. Pour the Soiree Amaretto, lemon juice, lime juice and stock syrup into a Champagne glass. Top up with Prosecco and serve garnished with Maraschino cherries
Death in Venice
Ingredients
- 15ml of Campari (1/2 fl oz)
- 4 drops of grapefruit bitters
- Prosecco
Instructions
1. Add the Campari and grapefruit bitters to a Champagne flute. Top up with Prosecco, stir lightly to combine and serve immediately
Christmas gin fizz
Ingredients
Christmas gin fizz
- 50ml of Tanqueray gin (1 2/3 fl oz)
- 1/2 lemon, juiced
- 1 egg white
- grenadine syrup
- caster sugar
- naturally light tonic or Prosecco
- ice cubes
Infused gomme syrup
- 500ml of gomme syrup (1 1/16 pints)
- 4 cloves
- 2 cinnamon sticks
- 2 star anise
- 3 cardamom pods
Garnish
- glacé cherries
Instructions
- 1 1/16 pint of gomme syrup
- 4 cloves
- 2 cinnamon sticks
- 2 star anise
- 3 cardamom pods
- grenadine syrup
- caster sugar
- ice cubes
- 1 2/3 fl oz of Tanqueray gin
- 1/2 lemon, juiced
- 1 egg white
- glacé cherries
- naturally light tonic
All recipes courtesy of Great British Chefs
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