Ring in 2025 with These New Year's Eve Cocktails

We're close to ringing in 2025, and it's sure to be a big night for bars and restaurants. If you're wondering who's most likely to visit your establishment on the last night of 2024, Chambord has found out! 

The liqueur brand recently commissioned a survey to find out exactly how Americans will spend their New Year’s Eve this year. A key finding was that Gen Z is more likely than Millennials and Gen X to go out to a bar this New Year’s Eve, and going to a bar is the most popular going-out activity. 

If you need some inspiration for your New Year's Eve menus, we've rounded up some festive cocktails!

Blueberry Sparkler

Ingredients:

1 oz Astral Tequila Blanco

0.25 oz Fresh Lime Juice

0.25 oz Simple Syrup

1 Bar Spoon Blueberry Puree

Champagne to top

Garnish: Lime Twist

Directions: 

1. Shake Astral Tequila Blanco, simple syrup, fresh lime juice and blueberry puree with ice. 
2. Strain into a champagne flute. 
3. Top with champagne and garnish with a lime twist. 

Elderflower Spritz

Ingredients:

1 oz Tequila Komos Añejo cristalino

.5 oz st Germain

.75 oz fresh lemon juice

.5 oz simple syrup

3 oz sparkling wine

Directions:

1. Shake all ingredients but sparkling wine together and strain into a champagne coupe or flute. 
2. Top with three ounces of sparkling wine.
3. Garnish with a lemon twist and an edible flower.

Blue Bayou

Ingredients:

2 oz Ketel One Vodka

0.5 oz Olive Brine

0.5 oz Blanc Vermouth

0.75 oz Filtered Water

1 tsp Creme de Peche

Garnish: olive and dried peach on a cocktail pick

Directions:

1. Add all of the ingredients to a mixing glass with ice and stir for 30 seconds. 
2. Pour into a chilled martini glass.
3. Garnish with a picked dried peach and olive. 

Apple Ginger Mimosa

Ingredients:

1 Suntide Classic

1/2 oz. Apple Cider·1 oz. Ginger Beer

Garnish: Star anise + rosemary sprig

Directions:

1. Pour all ingredients into a wine glass over ice. 
2. Garnish with star anise + rosemary sprig.

St-Germain Cranberry Spritz

Ingredients: 
1 1/2 oz St-Germain 
1 1/2 oz soda water 
2 oz Sparkling rosé wine 
3/4 oz Cranberry Juice
Garnish: Mint, 3 cranberries, edible flower

1. Build the cocktail over ice.
2. Garnish with mint, three cranberries, and an edible flower.

Mai Tai

Ingredients:

1 Part Diplomático Reserva Exclusiva

1 Part Diplomático Mantuano

0.75 Part Orange Curacao

1 Part Fresh Lime Juice

0.5 Part Orgeat

2 dashes Aromatic bitters

Orchid, pineapple frond & lime

Directions:

1. Add all ingredients to shaker with crushed ice for a bit of dilution. 
2. Shake and serve over ice. 
3. Garnish with fresh mint and pineapple leaf.

Mezcal Unión Royale

Ingredients:

2 oz Mezcal Unión Uno

0.5 oz Rosemary Syrup

0.75 oz Lemon Juice

Tonic Water

1 Rosemary Sprig

Green Grapes                                 

Directions: 

1. Mix Mezcal Unión Uno with ingredients, add ice, and top with tonic water. 
2. Garnish with a rosemary sprig and green grapes for good luck.                                     

Empress 75

Ingredients:
11⁄2 oz Empress 1908 Indigo Gin 
3⁄4 oz Fresh Lemon Juice 
1⁄2 oz Simple Syrup 
Sparkling Wine & a Lemon Twist 

Directions:

1. Shake on ice, fine strain into a chilled flute, top with sparkling wine. 
2. Garnish with a lemon twist.
    

High Roller Margarita 

Ingredients:

1 ½ oz Tequila CAZADORES Extra Añejo

¾ oz Grand Marnier

¾ oz agave nectar

3 wedges lime

3 wedges lemon

1 wedge orange

Directions:

1. In a cocktail shaker, muddle limes, lemons, and oranges. 
2. Add the rest of the ingredients with ice, shake, and serve up in a cocktail glass. 
3. Garnish with lime and orange peel.

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