8 classy Christmas cocktails

Bring good cheer to your Christmas party with wine expert Alice King's classy cocktails…

Snowball

Advocaat is enjoying something of a revival at the moment.

Santa’s Christmas Delight

• 3 parts Irish whiskey
• 1 part freshly squeezed lime juice
• soda water
• few drops of grenadine

Mix the ingredients toget

Christmas Champagne Cocktail

• 3/5th glass of chilled brut champagne or Spanish cava or Australian sparkling wine
• 1/5th glass cointreau
• 1/5th glass Absolut mandarin vodka

Holly-tini

A festively coloured green version of the famous cocktail.

Santa’s Cointreau Spritzer

This cocktail is an unusual variation on a standard spritzer

Tanqueray Tang

• 1 part Tanqueray gin
• 1 part cherry brandy
• 2 parts freshly squeezed lime juice
• soda water
• 1 tsp sugar

Mix the above ingredient

Between the Sheets

Everybody loves oranges, satsumas and tangerines at Christmas, so this cocktail will be a sure-fire hit.

Cranberry Cheerer

This Christmas version of a Seabreeze always goes down well.