A Prohibition-era celebration drink treating a daiquiri with a champagne float and honey syrup, landing as a bright, fizzy, lightly floral toast with rum at its core.

Airmail

A pink-hued Havana classic so protective of its name that a 1936 court ruling required genuine Bacardí rum, shaken with lime and grenadine into a tart, rose-colored daiquiri cousin.

Bacardi Cocktail

A soft Venetian brunch classic from Harry's Bar pairing white peach purée with cold prosecco, drinking fizzy, pale-pink, and delicately sweet with stone-fruit aroma.

Bellini

A pre-Prohibition rye cooler leaning on fresh grapefruit juice and raspberry syrup for a bittersweet, berry-kissed whiskey sour that feels unexpectedly modern.

Blinker

A winter-season margarita washed crimson with blood-orange juice, where the fruit's berry-kissed citrus character adds depth and color to the tequila-lime-triple sec template.

Blood Orange Margarita

Salvatore Calabrese's London invention stirring gin with Cointreau, lemon, and a bar spoon of orange marmalade for a tart, toast-like citrus sipper.

Breakfast Martini

A pre-Prohibition Manhattan-martini hybrid shaking gin with orange juice and both vermouths, producing a soft, sunny sipper that drinks like a more botanical mimosa.

Bronx

Served in a salt-rimmed clay cup, this Jalisco favorite stretches tequila with orange, grapefruit, and lime juices topped with grapefruit soda for a tart, fizzy, sunshine sipper.

Cantarito

A Victorian-era cobbler built on chilled champagne, orange liqueur, and muddled citrus over crushed ice, garnished with mint for a festive, orchard-fresh sparkler.

Champagne Cobbler

A 19th-century sparkler built on a bitters-soaked sugar cube filled with chilled Champagne, producing a slow-rising toast with spiced depth beneath every dry, biscuity bubble.

Champagne Cocktail

A party-bowl classic stretching brandy, rum, and orange liqueur with lemon and champagne, pouring bubbly and bright with a citrus-forward, lightly boozy character made for a crowd.

Champagne Punch

Peru's everyday highball built on grape-forward pisco, ginger ale, and lime with a few dashes of Angostura, giving a bright, lightly spiced lift that drinks like a lighter Moscow Mule.

Chilcano

Harry Craddock's 1930 hangover cure of gin, Lillet Blanc, orange liqueur, and lemon with an absinthe-rinsed glass — bright, dry, subtly anise-kissed, and perilously drinkable.

Corpse Reviver #2

The pink-hued 1990s icon of vodka, orange liqueur, cranberry, and lime, shaken sharp and served up — tart, fruity, and forever tied to Manhattan martini glasses.

Cosmopolitan

A floral spin on the gin Collins laced with St-Germain, yielding a tall, bubbly glass that lifts lemon and juniper with delicate elderflower perfume and garden-bright finish.

Elderflower Collins

A silky gin fizz sweetened with elderflower liqueur and capped with an egg-white foam, blending perfumed florals, citrus sour, and soda lift into a pillowy, aromatic sip.

Elderflower Fizz

A modern aperitivo pairing perfumed elderflower liqueur with Prosecco and soda, delivering a delicate, orchard-blossom spritz that feels light as air.

Elderflower Spritz

An Edwardian long drink of gin, lime, and raspberry syrup topped with ginger ale, drinking bright and jammy with a gentle ginger snap on the finish.

Floradora

A celebratory Champagne cocktail named for a WWI field gun, where gin, lemon, and sugar get topped with sparkling wine for a bright, dry, elegantly boozy toast.

French 75

The original cognac-based French 75, where aged brandy and lemon meet simple syrup before champagne lifts the glass into a rich, citrus-bright celebratory sparkler.

French 75 (Brandy)

A modern aperitif layering gin with elderflower liqueur, Lillet Blanc, grapefruit juice, and lemon for a dry, floral, grapefruit-kissed sipper with delicate perfume.

French Blonde

A blender-spun take on the Cuban classic where light rum, lime, and sugar whir into a slushy, snow-white cooler that hits bright, tart, and icy without ever tipping into slushie-sweet.

Frozen Daiquiri

A modern Hamburg creation from Jörg Meyer that muddles fresh basil with gin, lemon, and simple syrup, yielding a vividly green, herbaceous sour with peppery-sweet aroma.

Gin Basil Smash

A Victorian-era sipper built over crushed ice with gin, a touch of sugar, and muddled citrus and mint, prized for its aromatic freshness and gentle sweetness.

Gin Cobbler

A juniper-forward highball where gin's botanicals play against tart cranberry and lime, yielding a crisp, ruby-tinged easy drinker with more bite than its vodka sibling.

Gin Cranberry

A botanically charged take on lemonade, where juniper-forward gin meets lemon and sugar before being topped with soda for a bright, dry-finishing cooler.

Gin Lemonade

A muddled mint-and-lemon classic from the smash family, where gin meets crushed herb and citrus for a bright, aromatic, quickly built sipper.

Gin Smash

A garden-party highball where elderflower liqueur softens gin and tonic with perfumed floral sweetness, finishing crisp, dry, and unmistakably aromatic.

Gin and Elderflower

The California-casual highball of gin cut with orange and lime juice, where juniper peeks through bright citrus sweetness for a breezy, daytime-friendly pour.

Gin and Juice

A Paloma-adjacent margarita swapping in fresh grapefruit juice for a bittersweet citrus bite that balances tequila, orange liqueur, and lime into a crisp, pink-tinged sour.

Grapefruit Margarita

The writer's personal daiquiri spec from Havana's El Floridita, trading simple syrup for grapefruit juice and maraschino, drinking bone-dry, tart, and bracingly citrus-driven.

Hemingway Special

A sharp, stripped-down vodka sour of equal parts vodka, orange liqueur, and lime that drinks clean, tart, and neutral — a shot-style classic built around citrus snap.

Kamikaze

A French aperitif of Champagne lifted with a splash of crème de cassis, the blackcurrant liqueur lending a jewel-toned berry sweetness to dry bubbles.

Kir Royale

A sugar-rimmed martini-glass sour born in 1970s San Francisco, balancing vodka and orange liqueur against fresh lemon for a candied, tart sip that reads like liquid lemon meringue.

Lemon Drop

An Italian-inspired sparkler where bright limoncello and vodka lean into fresh lemon juice before soda water lifts the whole glass into a tart, summery fizz.

Limoncello Fizz

A pink 19th-century gin sour tinted with grenadine and orange liqueur, tart-sweet and rosy-cheeked with a light pomegranate-berry finish.

Maiden's Blush

A tropical daiquiri turn where mango's honeyed fruit leads rum and lime, producing a sunset-orange sour with lush, jammy body and just enough lime to keep it lively.

Mango Daiquiri

A smoky twist on Mexico's most popular cocktail, swapping tequila for mezcal and layering grapefruit juice and soda over a salted rim for a tart, campfire-kissed highball.

Mezcal Paloma

A Cuban highball of light rum, lime, sugar, and muddled mint finished with soda, producing the quintessential summer refresher: herbal, tart, and sunshine-bright.

Mojito

The 'botched' Negroni where prosecco stands in for gin, softening Campari and sweet vermouth into a fizzy, lower-proof aperitivo suddenly back in vogue.

Negroni Sbagliato

A Prohibition-era rye sour stained red with grenadine and brightened by lime, finishing with a flamed orange peel for a tart, pomegranate-tinged whiskey sip.

New York Cocktail

Audrey Saunders's modern classic lifts a mojito with aged rum, Angostura, and a Champagne top, producing a dressier, mint-kissed sparkler with oaked depth and effervescent shimmer.

Old Cuban

Mexico's everyday tequila highball, where salty grapefruit soda and fresh lime lift the agave into something long, fizzy, and more refreshing than a margarita could ever be.

Paloma

A tart, aromatic daiquiri where passion fruit's tangy perfume and seedy richness tangle with rum and lime, giving the drink a honeyed, exotic edge and a long, fragrant finish.

Passion Fruit Daiquiri

The London club classic, aka the Pornstar Martini's cousin, shaking vodka with passion fruit liqueur and juice, lime, and simple syrup into a tart, perfumed tropical sipper.

Passion Fruit Martini

A Southern-leaning daiquiri built on ripe peach purée, where stone-fruit sweetness softens rum and lime into a peachy, golden sour that drinks like summer in a coupe.

Peach Daiquiri

A tropical spin on the Cuban classic where fresh pineapple juice joins light rum, lime, and sugar for a bright, sunny sour that keeps the daiquiri's crisp architecture intact.

Pineapple Daiquiri

A tropical margarita shaking tequila with fresh pineapple juice, lime, and orange liqueur, with agave smoothing the edges into a sunny, sweet-tart sip over salt.

Pineapple Margarita

A frothy agave sour where pineapple juice, lime, and agave meet tequila and egg white, shaken to a pillowy foam with a tropical, lightly vegetal edge and a bright finish.

Pineapple Tequila Sour

A Peruvian-spirited cousin of the gin fizz, where grape-forward pisco is shaken with lemon, sugar, and egg white, then topped with soda for a frothy, floral lift.

Pisco Fizz

A jewel-toned margarita variation where pomegranate's tart-sweet juice deepens the usual tequila, lime, and agave build, finished with a salt rim for saline contrast.

Pomegranate Margarita

A regal Victorian build of rye, maraschino, and muddled pineapple topped with champagne, yielding a bubbly, perfumed long drink that tastes like a spice-kissed fruit salad in a flute.

Prince of Wales

A Venetian breakfast sparkler of fresh mandarin juice topped with prosecco, delivering a sweeter, rounder Mimosa cousin with bright citrus perfume and soft bubbles.

Puccini

A berry-forward daiquiri with fresh raspberries shaken into rum and lime, turning the classic sour ruby-pink with tart-sweet jam character and a clean citrus finish.

Raspberry Daiquiri

A tart-leaning margarita muddled with fresh raspberries that sharpens tequila and lime into a ruby-hued sour, where berry jam and salt play against bright agave backbone.

Raspberry Margarita

A two-ingredient Venetian brunch sparkler that tops prosecco with fresh strawberry purée, a pink-hued cousin to the Bellini with bright berry sweetness and lively bubbles.

Rossini

A crushed-ice classic where aged rum mingles with orange, mint, and a whisper of sugar, producing a lazy, aromatic sipper built for a hot afternoon.

Rum Cobbler

A light-rum highball stirred with tart cranberry juice and lime, leaning softly sweet and tropical-adjacent with a blush-pink color and easy, low-effort appeal.

Rum Cranberry

A Silver Fizz-style cooler built on light rum, shaken hard with lemon and sugar and topped with soda for a clean, bright, breezy highball.

Rum Fizz

A lime-and-mint smash built on light rum, combining muddled herb, tart citrus, and sugar over crushed ice for a mojito-adjacent, shorter cooler.

Rum Smash

A Prohibition-era Paris invention that christened America's newly outlawed drinkers, pulling rye, dry vermouth, lemon, and grenadine into a pink, tart, low-sugar sour.

Scofflaw

A 1980s disco-era highball of vodka with cranberry and grapefruit juices that drinks tart, faintly bitter, and beach-breezy without ever tipping sweet.

Sea Breeze

Katie Stipe's modern tequila riff on the Hemingway Daiquiri adds Campari to grapefruit and lime, yielding a pink, bitter-bright sour with unmistakable agave backbone.

Siesta

A Prohibition-era gin sour brightened with muddled mint — essentially a gin mojito without the rum or soda — drinking crisp, herbaceous, and country-club clean.

South Side

Named for Manhattan's famed nightclub, this gin drink folds orange juice, orange liqueur, lime, and a dash of Angostura into a bright, bittersweet sour with zesty citrus lift.

Stork Club

A modern three-ingredient sour that pairs light rum with elderflower liqueur and lemon, delivering a pale, floral-bright drink that feels like a gentler, blossom-scented daiquiri.

Sunflower

A lean, tart highball of blanco tequila and cranberry juice brightened with lime, drinking like a lower-sugar, agave-forward cousin to the vodka version.

Tequila Cranberry

A 19th-century daisy template reimagined with tequila, orange liqueur, lemon, and grenadine lengthened with soda — widely cited as the stylistic grandfather of the modern margarita.

Tequila Daisy

A blanco-tequila take on the sour template where agave's pepper and earth meet lemon and sugar, softened into a plush pour by a shake of egg white.

Tequila Sour

A Harry's Bar sparkler named for the Venetian painter, pairing ruby pomegranate juice with prosecco for a tart, berry-stained flute with gentle tannic grip.

Tintoretto

A Victorian-era highball of gin, lemon, and sugar stretched with soda over ice, delivering a long, fizzy, lemonade-like refresher with just enough juniper backbone.

Tom Collins

Julio Bermejo's San Francisco reinvention of the Margarita, ditching orange liqueur for a direct pour of agave nectar to let blanco tequila sing over fresh lime.

Tommy's Margarita

A weeknight highball of vodka and tart cranberry juice brightened with lime, lean and blush-pink with barely any bite — the unfussy ancestor of the Cosmopolitan.

Vodka Cranberry

A clean, mint-forward smash using vodka as a neutral stage for muddled herb, lemon, and sugar, producing a bright, garden-fresh sipper.

Vodka Smash

A pool-party margarita built on fresh watermelon juice so tequila and lime land with cooling, candy-pink fruit sweetness, rimmed in salt to play off the melon's hint of savor.

Watermelon Margarita

A summer-forward shake of vodka, fresh watermelon juice, orange liqueur, and lime that drinks lightly sweet, clean, and vividly pink with a melon-ripe finish.

Watermelon Martini

A 19th-century American classic where bourbon is poured over crushed ice with muddled orange, lemon, and mint for a fragrant, gently sweet sipper once popularized by Mark Twain.

Whiskey Cobbler

A porch-worthy long drink of whiskey and fresh lemonade topped with soda, delivering bourbon warmth under bright lemon sweetness in the easiest summer-sipper format.

Whiskey Lemonade

A muddled-mint Mint Julep cousin shaken with lemon and simple syrup, turning bourbon bright and herbal without any of the stirred Julep's stately reserve.

Whiskey Smash

Cocktails that feel vivid and lifted on the palate, driven by fresh citrus, sparkling wine, or light spirits.

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