🍓 Sweet
Sweet & Fruity
Sweet & Fruity
Passion fruit, mango, peach, pineapple — fruit-forward cocktails that taste like a holiday. Balance the sweetness with acid or bitters or they'll cloy.
Most Indulgent
- Porn Star Martini — vanilla vodka, Passoa, passion fruit
- Piña Colada — rum, cream of coconut, pineapple
- Sex on the Beach — vodka, peach schnapps, cranberry
🔥 Smoky
Smoky
Smoky & Peaty
Mezcal and Islay Scotch bring an irreplaceable campfire character to cocktails. A little smoke goes a long way.
Smokiest Drinks
- Penicillin — Scotch + Laphroaig float, honey-ginger
- Mezcal Negroni — smoke replaces gin's botanicals
- Naked & Famous — mezcal, Aperol, Chartreuse, lemon
🌿 Herbal
Herbal
Herbal & Botanical
Green Chartreuse, fresh herbs, gin botanicals, Bénédictine — complex, aromatic, and endlessly interesting on the palate.
Most Botanical
- Last Word — gin, Green Chartreuse, Maraschino, lime
- Bee's Knees — gin, honey, lemon (Prohibition style)
- Aviation — gin, Crème de Violette, Maraschino
🍊 Bitter
Bitter
Bitter & Aperitivo
Campari, Aperol, Amaro — bitterness is the flavour that opens the appetite. The most acquired taste in cocktails, and the most rewarding.
Most Bitter
- Negroni — Campari, gin, sweet vermouth, perfect balance
- Aperol Spritz — 11% ABV, fizzy, approachable bitter
- Jungle Bird — Campari + rum, the tropical bitter
🌴 Tropical
Tropical
Tropical & Tiki
Pineapple, coconut, passion fruit, orgeat, lime and layers of rum. Tiki drinks are the most complex cocktails in terms of ingredient count.
Most Tropical
- Mai Tai — Trader Vic's 1944, Jamaican rum, orgeat
- Jungle Bird — Campari + rum, KL 1978, bitter-tropical
- Painkiller — dark rum, pineapple, cream of coconut