‘Tis the season to be merry, and we have a festive selection of drinks to tide you over the holidays this Christmas. Our top 10 Christmas gin cocktails are guaranteed to wow your guests, so read on and feel free to try them out yourself!
- Champagne Fizz
Perfect for sipping by the fireside, this delicious drink is incredibly moreish. Nothing completes a crisp winter evening like this. Like all drinks that use egg white in their creation, the distinctive creamy texture to this drink makes it stand out.
In order to prepare this, dry shake gin, lemon juice and egg white together in a container for thirty seconds. Once complete, add ice and proceed to shake the mixture again until it has been thoroughly chilled. At this point, strain the mixture into a glass and top it off with champagne.
Ingredients
- 25ml Sipsmith Sloe Gin
- 25ml Lemon juice
- 1 egg white
- Champagne
- Under the Mistletoe
Looking to woo the love of your life? Hark back to tradition with this delightfully named cocktail. Coloured a deep ruby red that’s topped off with a flourish of green mint leaves, this is sure to put a smile on the face of your more festive guests.
To prepare, fill a glass with ice and pour the gin, adding lemon juice at the same time. Then, top this off with the cranberry juice and stir. For added character, garnish with a few cranberries and mint leaves. It’s as simple as that!
Ingredients:
- 1 measure Gin (2 if you like)
- 150 ml Cranberry Juice
- 10 ml Lemon Juice
- Ice Cubes
- Fresh Cranberries
- Mint Leaves
- Cranberry and Gin Martini
Another colour-coded masterpiece that will properly complement a post-Christmas dinner scene. Craft this cocktail by adding all the ingredients, apart from the garnish of course, into an ice-filled shaker. Shake until cooled, and then strain into a chilled glass. Then it’s time to add your garnish!
Ingredients:
- 50ml Fords Gin
- 15ml Sloe Gin
- 15ml lemon juice
- 1 teaspoon of cranberry jelly
- A rosemary sprig for garnish
- Mince Pie Martini
This spiced, sugary drink will go well with your after-dinner treats come Christmas day. There are multiple steps to this process, since we’re producing a separate flavour for the rim of the glass itself.
First, to make the mincemeat syrup you need to put 100ml water, the golden caster sugar and mincemeat in a pan, which you then bring to boil. Afterwards, cool the mixture. Once done, strain though muslin into a sieve and then an airtight container.
In the meantime, combine the caster sugar and mixed spice. Dampen the rims of four martini glasses and dip in the sugar and spice mixture. Finally, muddle the mincemeat in a cocktail shaker and add the gin, sweet red vermouth, dark rum, 80ml mincemeat syrup and ice. Shake well, strain into your prepared glass, and enjoy!
Ingredients:
- 100g golden caster sugar
- 50g mincemeat
- 4 tbsp caster sugar
- 4 tsp mixed spice
- 4 tsp mincemeat
- 100ml gin
- 100ml sweet red vermouth
- 20ml dark rum
- Christmas Velvet Alexander
Served best in a flashy Coupe glass, the Christmas Velvet Alexander combines liqueur, gin and sherry for a beautiful combination of flavours. This is one of the easiest drinks to prepare on this list, but also one of the most glamorous. Simply shake the ingredients with ice and fine strain into the glass.
Ingredients:
- 45ml Liqueur
- 45ml Dry Gin
- 5ml Sherry
- Grated nutmeg and one orange zest twist
- Gingerbread Sour
If you love the nation’s most festive biscuit-based product, then bring that flavour to your drinks as well. To prepare, pour the ingredients into a shaker and fill with ice. Shake, and then fine strain the results into a chilled glass. For garnish we recommend a dashing of ginger.
Ingredients:
- 50ml Dry Gin
- 20ml Lemon juice
- 5ml Gingerbread syrup
- 1 dash Regan’s OJ bitters
- One egg white
- Ginger to garnish
- Sloe Royale
This is one for the classier readers! Bring a bit of the bubbly stuff into your festive season with the Sloe Royale, a combination of sloe gin and champagne or prosecco. Just pour the slow gin into a flute or saucer and then top with your choice of prosecco. Simple stuff, but a great flavour.
Ingredients:
- 15ml Sloe Gin
- Champagne/prosecco
- Hot Mulled Slow Gin
If you’re looking to warm yourself up on a cold winters evening, then consider a Hot Mulled Slow Gin. To prepare, mull the cloudy apple juice with the spices and vanilla. Then, pour your sloe gin into a mug or handled glass and add the mulled apple. Finally, garnish with cinnamon and an orange slice.
Ingredients:
- 50ml Sloe Gin
- Cloudy apple juice
- Vanilla, clove, anise, star, nutmeg & cinnamon
- Hot Negroni
Another of our hot cocktails, the Hot Negroni is a delicious combination of gin, berries and more. This is another drink that’s easy to prepare. Just pour the ingredients into a mug and top with hot red berry tea. If you’re feeling fancy then you can garnish with a dehydrated orange wheel.
Ingredients:
- 25ml Sipsmith London Dry Gin
- 25ml Campari
- 25ml Sweet Vermouth
- Red berry tea
- 1 dehydrated orange wheel
- Mulled Wine
We finish with a classic! You may ask yourself why we’ve picked a wine as one of our top 10 Christmas cocktails. Well, there’s a very simple way to add a kick to your mulled wine that will get your taste buds going. Simply stir in a dash of sloe gin before you drink.
Ingredients:
- 750ml red wine
- 1 large cinnamon stick, or 2 small ones
- 2 star anise
- 4 cloves
- Cloves
- 2 strips pared lemon zest
- 4tbsp caster sugar
- 100ml sloe gin
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