Valentine’s Day Cocktails
10 Cocktails
Sparkling wines and silky spirits for the evening that demands your best glass—each drink built for lingering conversation and low lighting.
Featured Cocktails
Champagne Cocktail
A timeless sparkling classic—Angostura‑soaked sugar cube topped with brut Champagne and a lemon twist.
French 75
A crisp union of gin, lemon, sugar, and Champagne that delivers bracing bubbles with artillery-level snap.
Kir Royale
Festive French spritz—crème de cassis crowned with dry Champagne for a blackcurrant‑tinged sparkle.
Clover Club
Pre-Prohibition gin sour colored with raspberry and crowned with a dry-shaken egg white foam.
Aviation
Hugo Ensslin's sky-hued gin sour of gin, maraschino and crème de violette—lost for decades until the cocktail renaissance brought it soaring back.
Bellini
Venetian classic of fragrant white‑peach purée gently lengthened with crisp Prosecco—delicate, floral, and effervescent.
Espresso Martini
Dick Bradsell's caffeinated classic shakes vodka, coffee liqueur and hot espresso into a frothy, bittersweet nightcap.
Cosmopolitan
Vodka, cranberry, orange liqueur, and lime combine for a tart, vividly pink martini that defined 1990s cocktail culture.
Blood and Sand
Scotch, sweet vermouth, cherry brandy, and orange juice. An unusual but balanced equal-parts cocktail.
Rose Cocktail
A delicate and elegant vermouth-based cocktail from 1920s Paris, featuring French dry vermouth, kirschwasser, and raspberry syrup with a beautiful pink hue.