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If you are looking for Valentine’s Day cocktails we would like to share 6 of our favourites with you:

A Touch of Mixology : Ti Adoro (I Adore You) with Campari ice cubes
Pour & Enjoy : Heads + Tails Angel Face (RTD)
One to Share : Mule for Two
Keeping it Simple : Grape Martinez
Eastern Flavours : Kolmena Highball
For Chocolate Lovers : Dark & Pear

A Touch of Mixology
Ti Adoro (I Adore You) with Campari ice cubes

Ingredients:

• 25ml Campari & 60ml Water freeze in large cube tray
• 60ml Catoctin Creek Roundstone Rye
• 30ml good Italian vermouth
• 2 dashes orange bitters
• Orange peel for garnish

Instructions:
Combine rye, vermouth and bitters in an old fashioned glass.
Add large Campari ice cube, stir.
Express orange peel into drink, wipe rim with peel and side it into the side of the drink.

Catoctin Creek Roundstone Rye is available from £37 via Native Spirits.

Pour & Enjoy
Heads + Tails Angel Face (RTD)

Ingredients:

• Gin
• Apricot Brandy
• Calvados

Instructions:
Relax
Open your Ready-To-Drink bottle from Heads + Tails one of the worlds best bars
Pour over ice, stir and serve in cocktail glass with an orange peel garnish.
Angel Face and other fantastic cocktails from Heads + Tails can be purchased online here with UK wide delivery: headsandtails.shop

One to Share
Mule for Two

Ingredients for one (double up for sharing):

• 45 ml Sagamore Spirit Signature Rye Whiskey
• 30ml Cranberry Juice
• 10ml Lemon Juice
• 10 ml Organic Maple Syrup
• 60 ml Ginger Beer
• Sage Leaf, Optional

Instructions:
Fill a Collins glass with ice.
Add Sagamore Spirit Signature Rye Whiskey, cranberry juice, lemon juice and maple syrup.
Top with ginger beer and give a slight stir to combine.
Garnish with a sage leaf.
Sagamore Spirit Rye is available from £49 via Native Spirits.

Keeping It Simple
Grape Martinez

Ingredients:

• • 45 ml G’Vine Floraison
  • 2 tsp Lemon Juice
  • 1 tbsp Water
  • 10-15 Red Grapes (keep two grapes for garnish)
  • 30ml Sweet Vermouth

Garnish:
Grapes and toothpick
Method:
In a blender combine the grapes, water, gin, lemon juice, sugar and vermouth and blend until smooth. Pour in a shaker filled with ice and shake for about a minute and strain into a small glass. Garnish with a couple of grapes on a toothpick.
Where to buy: Amazon, Master Of Malt, Whisky Exchange.
Priced from: £35

Eastern Flavours
Kolmena by G’Vine Highball

Ingredients:

• 45ml G’Vine Gin Floraison™
• 25ml June® Wild Peach Liqueur
• 30ml La Quintinye Vermouth Royal® Blanc
• 30ml lime syrup
• 1 Tbsp. of honey
• ½ Tbsp. of fresh ginger juice

Recipe:
Add all ingredients to a mixer, shake and pour in a highball with ice. Top with soda water and garnish with a ginger slice, a lime twist and a seasonal flower if available.
Where to buy: Amazon, Master Of Malt, Whisky Exchange.
Priced from: £35

For Chocolate Lovers
Dark & Pear

Ingredients:

• 40ml June Royal Pear & Cardamom
• 20 ml Vodka
• 5 ml Lime Juice
• 20 ml Egg White
• Chocolate

Method:
Add ice and all the ingredients in a shaker and shake vigorously, strain into a frozen coupette glass and grate chocolate (or use powder) on half the surface.
Where to buy:Amazon, Master Of Malt, Whisky Exchange.
Priced from: £35