New Year’s Cocktails for 2021

New Year’s Cocktails for 2021 | Cheers

Time to ring in a new year and hope that 2022 is not as tumultuous as the past two years. New Year’s Eve (and Day) cocktails don’t have to include Champagne, of course. But we we tend to prefer it when they do sparkle. Here are seven cocktails we like to bid 2021 farewell. (And if you’d like more bobbly recipes, here’s our New Year’s drinks roundup from 2020.)

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Mistletoe Mimosa

Cranberry, elderflower liqueur, sparkling wine

½ oz. Elderflower liqueur
2 drops Orange water
Splash cranberry juice
Sparkling wine

Rim a Champagne flute halfway with sugar.
Build ingredients in glass.
Garnish with a fresh cranberry and rosemary sprig.

The mixologists at The Breakfast Club in Hollywood, CA, created this recipe.

The Golden Fizz

Champagne, honey, lemon, Moët & Chandon Brut Impérial Champagne

4 oz. Moët & Chandon Brut Impérial Champagne
2 oz. Ginger tumeric tea
5 oz. Honey syrup
5 oz. Lemon juice
4 drops Cardamom bitters

Build ingredients in a wine glass.
Add ice and gently stir with a bar spoon.
Garnish with a dehydrated lemon wheel.

The mixologists at Moët & Chandon created this recipe.

Holiday Sparkler

Blood orange soda, Cointreau, lime, rosemary, tequila

2 oz. Tequila
¾ oz. Cointreau
¾ oz. Fresh lime juice
1 Rosemary sprig
Blood orange soda

Add tequila, Cointreau, lime juice and rosemary sprig into a shaker.
Add ice and shake.
Fine strain over ice in a highball glass.
Finish with blood orange soda and garnish.

The mixologists at Cointreau created this recipe.

La Fête

Ketel One Grapefruit Rose botanical vodka, sparkling wine, St. Germaine elderflower liqueur, vodka

1 ½ oz. Ketel One Grapefruit Rose botanical vodka
½ oz. St. Germaine elderflower liqueur
½ oz. Fresh lemon juice
Top with Faire La Fête Brut sparkling wine

Add all ingredients except sparkling wine to a shaker with ice.
Shake vigorously and strain into glass.
Top with sparkling wine.
Garnish with a grapefruit twist.

Ravin Buzzell (@ravinaboutcocktails) created this recipe.

Hawaiian New Year’s Cocktail

Koloa Kauai Reserve rum, Passion fruit, pineapple, prosecco, rum

4 oz. Koloa Kauai Reserve rum
4 oz. Passion fruit juice
2 oz. Passion fruit syrup
1 oz. Fresh lemon juice
1 oz. Pineapple gum syrup
4-6 dashes Tiki bitters Bittermen’s brand
Prosecco sparkling wine or Brut Champagne

For two servings: Combine all the cocktail ingredients up to bitters in a cocktail shaker.
Add ice and shake well.
Place a large ice cube (or large ice square) into 2 glasses then fill 2/3 of the way with the cocktail.
Top with prosecco or sparkling wine.
Garnish with fresh passion fruit halves.

Shanna Schad of PineappleandCoconut.com created this recipe.

Fizzy Plum

Bourbon, Brown sugar, Cavit prosecco, fig, plum, prosecco

2 Fresh whole plums or figs
1 tbsp. Brown sugar
¼ cup Bourbon
½ cup Cavit prosecco

Muddle one fig with the brown sugar.
Add bourbon and ice cubes and shake to combine.
Strain into a glass over ice and top with prosecco.
Garnish with fresh fig.

The mixologists at Cavit created this recipe.

Just In Thyme

Black Button Distilling gin, Black Irish Original liqueur, Champagne, thyme

½ oz. Black Button Distilling citrus-forward gin
1 oz. Thyme syrup
Champagne

For thyme syrup, combine equal parts sugar and boiling water with fresh thyme.
Steep for 20 minutes, strain and cool.
For cocktail, combine gin and thyme syrup in a cocktail shaker.
Shake and strain into Champagne flute.
Top with Champagne.
Garnish with a few cranberries. (For extra bling, rim glass with edible glue and edible glitter.)

The mixologists at Black Button created this recipe.