5 Valentine’s cocktails to try this weekend

Add a touch of extra elegance to your Valentine’s Day celebrations with these five delightful cocktails, suitable for every taste.

For spritz lovers: The Cocchi Rosa Spritz

Ingredients:

60ml Cocchi Rosa

Fever Tree Premium Soda Water

Method:

1. Pour 60ml of Cocchi Rosa into a glass.
2. Top up with Fever Tree Premium Soda Water.
3. Add chopped strawberries.
4. Garnish with a basil leaf.

For those who favour savoury: Rose Martini

Ingredients:

50ml Silent Pool Rose Expression Gin

10ml Regal Rogue Wild Rose Vermouth

1 dash orange bitters

1 dash lavender bitter

Lemon peel

Method:

1. Chill your cocktail glass (the easiest way is to fill it with ice).
2. Add plenty of ice and the vermouth to your shaker/stirring glass and stir to make sure the ice is coated with Regal Rose Wild Rose Vermouth, then use your strainer to pour away the excess.
3. Add the Silent Pool Rose Expression Gin to the shaker/stirring glass, along with a dash of both bitters and stir the mixture for about 30 seconds to chill and dilute.
4. Strain into the chilled cocktail glass and garnish with a twist of lemon peel.

For a touch of indulgence: Date Night Ready

Ingredients:

50ml Tequila Rose

25ml Date syrup

1 spoon strawberry jam

100ml coconut cream

1 scoop vanilla ice cream

15ml maple syrup

Method:

1. Blend all ingredients together.
2. Pour into a rocks glass.
3. Garnish with fresh strawberry and a mini lollipop.

For gin lovers: Caorunn Floradorable Cocktail

Ingredients:

50 ml Caorunn Scottish Raspberry

20ml lime juice

20ml raspberry & ginger syrup

Soda water

Ice

Method:

1. Shake all ingredients excluding the soda water.
2. Strain into a tall glass over ice.
3. Top with soda water and stir.
4. Garnish with an edible flower and lime twist.

For those looking for something different: Brothers Pink Grapefruit Winter Fizz

Ingredients:

Ice

30ml vodka

50ml pink grapefruit juice

75ml Brothers Pink Grapefruit Cider

Prosecco

Pink Grapefruit and Rosemary to garnish

Method:

1. Add a few ice cubes to a tall glass
2. Pour in the vodka, pink grapefruit juice, Brothers Pink Grapefruit Cider and stir.
3. Top with your favourite prosecco.
4. Garnish with pink grapefruit slices and rosemary.

Enjoy Cupid’s day the way it was intended — with Valentine’s cocktails. Cheers!