The Best Cocktails for the Season's Celebrations

Late autumn and early winter are packed with festive events to keep your social calendar full and fun. Check out our favourite seasonal serves for all your activities, from the big celebrations like Christmas and New Year’s Eve to the smaller get-togethers, like hay rides, Christmas brunches, vision boarding parties and more.

Hay Rides, Pumpkin Patches and Other Autumn Festivals

Autumn is all about seasonal flavour, and we’ve got no shortage of spiced drink recipes. Notes of apple, cinnamon, pumpkin spice and more will really get you in the spirit of the season. Browse all of our favourite autumn flavours, from the Spiced Apple Martini Cocktail to the Harvest Punch.

And if your activities take you outdoors into the brisk air, you may want to take a hot drink along with you, like our Warm Apple Cider.

Christmas Brunches

Brunch is great any time of year, but there’s something even more special about it during the Christmas season. Enjoy gathering your friends and family around the kitchen table while sipping the fizzy Cranberry Sparkler.

The classic brunch drink Bloody Mary even already comes in the Christmas colours of red and green. Build your own Bloody Mary bar for a delicious activity to do together.

Christmas Dinner Parties

Everyone loves a good Christmas party — and the hosts who throw one. Make yours a huge success with all our tips about how to throw a Christmas dinner party. Maybe start your evening with a little amuse-bouche-like drink: the Short Martini Cocktail. As the night progresses, you may want to bring out a special festive cocktail, like the Sleigh Driver. You can take any martini cocktail or other favourite drink of yours and customise it to be more festive.

Going Caroling

If you’re taking the festivities outside, you may want to have something on hand to help keep the winter chill away. Hot Christmas drinks help get you in the spirit and could even help keep those vocal cords warm. Try one or our favourites similar to a hot toddy, the Winter Scarves.

Tree Trimming and Gift Wrapping

If you’re all cosy inside, gathered around the tree, you’ll probably want a festive cocktail to match. Keep the tree decorating or gift wrapping party going with any of our favourite Christmas cocktails. If you want to free up your hands more for decorating and wrapping, try making a Christmas punch jug for the group ahead of time.

New Year’s Eve

It’s time to say goodbye to the old year and welcome a new one. So when you raise a glass at midnight, you’ll probably want to make sure it’s something special. Here are our top vodka cocktails for New Year’s Eve.

Vision Boarding

Many people like to start the new year off by setting resolutions or goals. Recently, vision boards have become a popular way to do that. If you’re gathering your friends to make them, you may want some cocktails that fit the occasion. Great cocktails for the new year are those that are light-tasting, low ABV and something you haven’t tried before. Why not shake things up in the new year?

No matter what you have in store this season, there’s a cocktail perfectly suited for the occasion. And whatever you’re celebrating, please do so responsibly. Enjoy the most wonderful time of the year.