Valentine's Day Cocktails

If you're planning to a romantic evening at home on Valentine's Day, consider mixing up a couple of these refreshing, flavorful cocktails to enjoy before or after dinner.

1. Wild Strawberry Seduction

2 ounces SKYY Infusions Wild Strawberry
1 ounce fresh lemon juice
1 ounce apple juice
1/2 ounce honey syrup (equal parts honey and water)
2 medium basil leaves
2 medium strawberries

Muddle basil, strawberries and lemon juice. Add remaining ingredients. Shake an double strain into a coupe glass. Garnish with strawberry slices.

Photo and recipe courtesy Campari America

2. Hopeless RomantiX

1-1/2 ounce X-Rated Fusion Liqueur®
2 ounce Prosecco or champagne
1/4 ounce lemon juice
1/4 ounce orange juice
1/4 ounce pineapple juice

Muddle pineapple, orange and lemon. Add Prosecco and X-Rated Fusion Liqueur®. Strain and serve in a highball glass and garnish with a lemon twist.

Photo and recipe courtesy X-Rated Fusion Liqueur

3. SKYY Amore-tini

2 ounces SKYY Vodka
1/2 ounce passionfruit liqueur
1/2 ounce Campari
Dash of fresh lemon juice

Mix all ingredients in a shaker filled with ice. Shake and serve in a cocktail glass.

Recipe and photo courtesy Campari America

4. Wild Strawberry Sunrise

2 ounces SKYY Infusions Wild Strawberry
1 ounce orange juice
1/2 ounce grapefruit juice
1/2 ounce lime juice
1/2 ounce simple syrup
1/4 ounce grenadine

Shake all ingredients except grenadine. Pour liquid over ice in a rocks glass, then drizzle the grenadine over the top.

Recipe and photo courtesy Campari America

5. Cinnful Valentine

1 part Hiram Walker Original Cinn Cinnamon Schnapps
1 part cranberry juice
2 parts ginger ale

Build in a collins glass over ice. Garnish with skewered cranberries and ginger slices.

Photo and recipe courtesy Hiram Walker

6. Sandeman Chocolate Passion

3 parts Sandeman Founders Reserve
 Porto
3 parts Chivas Regal Scotch Whisky
1 part demerara syrup

1/2 part dry vermouth
1/2 part white crème de cacao

Dash of orange bitters
Dash of Angostura bitters

Mix ingredients. Pour over ice in an old-fashioned glass and stir.

Photo courtesy Sandeman Port ~ cocktail created by mixologist Jason Littrell

7. G'Spot

1-1/2 ounce G'Vine Floraison Gin
1/2 ounce Chambord
1/4 ounce simple syrup
1/4 ounce fresh lime juice
3/4 ounce fresh lemon juice

Combine all ingredients in a glass mixing pint. Stir well. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass.

Photo and recipe courtesy G'Vine Gin

8. Love Letter

1 ounce Campari
1 ounce freshly squeezed lime juice
3/4 ounce Cointreau
1/4 ounce maple syrup (should be 1:1 with water)
1/4 ounce Small Hand Grenadine
3 dashes of Peychaud's Bitters

Shake. Add soda. Pour over ice in highball. Garnish with lime zest.

Photo courtesy Campari America ~ recipe created by mixologist Adam Wilson

9. The SKYY Violet

1-1/2 ounces SKYY Vodka
3/4 ounces Creme de Violette
3 ounces dry sparkling wine (such as Drusian Prosecco)
3 dashes Fee Brothers or Angostura Orange Bitters

Stir SKYY Vodka, Orange Bitters and Creme de Violette with ice. Strain into champagne coup or flute and top with Prosecco. Top with zest of an orange and garnish with orange twist.

Photo courtesy Campari America ~ recipe by Jon Gasparini of Rye on the Road

–  Recipe & photo credits noted individually  |  Posted by Lynne Webb

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