Love At First Sip: Irresistible Drinks for Valentine’s Day 2025
Love At First Sip: 21 Irresistible Cocktails For Valentine’s Day 2025
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Valentine’s Day falls on a weekend and we expect all the loving couples or those looking to express their feelings will want to do so over some fine beverages. For this year’s Valentine’s Day drinks roundup, we’ve got some of our favorite brands and sprinkles of new ones that we hope will add to the special moments that will be created.
For this year’s Valentine’s Day roundup, we’ve got a lot of the requisite brightly colored cocktails, spritzes, and even an RTD in the mix this year. The sips for this Day of Love veer towards the sweeter side, so we imagine most of these would make a nice nightcap after a lovely night out or dinner at home.
All of the recipes are really easy to follow and some are even made for two. Whatever your flavor, we believe there is at least one cocktail below worth mixing up for your boo.
Have a safe, loving, and sweet Valentine’s Day!
P.S. Open for some V-Day gifts? Check this guide out!
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1. Big Love by Cointreau
Source: Cointreau
1 oz Cointreau
0.5 oz Beet Juice
0.25 oz Lemon Juice
1.25 oz Strawberry Shrub
1.25 oz Vodka
Combine all ingredients in a shaker full of ice. Shake until well chilled. Strain it and serve it in a coupette.
2. Blushing Heart Spritz
Source: ST‑GERMAINIngredients:
1 1/2 oz ST‑GERMAIN
2 oz MARTINI Rosé Prosecco (or Still Rosé wine)
2 oz soda water
8 mint leaves
Lime wedge for garnish
Mint sprig for garnish
Method: Pour St‑Germain over ice in a glass. Add mint and top with sparkling wine and soda. Stir to combine all of the ingredients. Garnish with a sprig of mint and a lime wedge.
3. Cranberry Coupe
Source: Club Kokomo Spirits
4. Cupid’s Flight
Source:Santa Teresa 1796
Ingredients:
1.5 oz Santa Teresa 1796
0.75 oz Martini Bitter
1 oz Pineapple Juice
0.5 oz Lime Juice
0.25 oz Simple Syrup
Method: Add all ingredients to a shaken tin, add ice, shake, and strain over glassware. Garnish with a pineapple leaf and lime wheel.
5. Cutwater Strawberry White Russian
Source: Cutwater
We didn’t feature a lot of RTDs (ready-to-drink) cocktails in this roundup but Cutwater is the real deal. This new flavor is right on time for the V-Day weekend too.
Learn more here.
6. Elderflower Rose 75
Source: Empress
1908 Ingredients:
2 oz Empress 1908 Elderflower Rose Gin
¾ oz Fresh Lemon Juice
0.5 oz Simple Syrup
Sparkling Wine
Method: Shake on ice, fine strain into a chilled flute, top with sparkling wine, and garnish with a lemon twist.
7. Grapefruit Rose Spritz
Source: Dulce VidaCreated by Carnelian Cooks
Ingredients:
1.5 oz Dulce Vida Grapefruit Tequila
1 oz Fresh Lime Juice
¾ oz Orange Liqueur
1 oz Rose Liqueur
Soda water, top
Garnish: Rose petals
Method: In a cocktail shaker, combine tequila, fresh lime, orange liqueur, rose liqueur, and ice. Shake until chilled. Strain into a tall Collins glass filled with ice. Top with soda water. Garnish with rose petals. Cin Cin!
8. Hibiscus Rum-tini
Source: KōloaIngredients:
2 oz Kōloa Coconut Rum
.5 oz Orange Liqueur (Cointreau or Grand Marnier)
.5 oz Rose Hibiscus Syrup
2 oz Fresh Rose Water Lemonade (equal parts simple syrup, lemon juice and rose water
Directions: Combine ingredients and shake. Strain into a martini glass.
9. Kiss Me in the Caribbean
Source: Dos Maderas RumIngredients:
1.5 oz Dos Maderas Rum 5+3
3 oz unsweetened coconut milk
0.75 oz strawberry syrup
0.75 oz pineapple juice
0.5 oz lime juice
Directions: Combine all ingredients into a shaker with ice. Shake to combine and strain into Double Rocks glass or Highball glass.
10. Lover’s Lane
Source: Keeper’s Heart
1 1/2 oz Strawberry-infused Keeper’s Heart Irish + American
( 300g quartered strawberries + 1 bottle Irish + American, freeze overnight, strain with fine mesh, then with paper filter)
1/2 oz Peach Schnapps
1/2 oz Aperol
1/2 oz Lemon Juice
Garnish: Strawberry
11. Pamplemousses by Belle de Brillet
Source: Belle de Brillet
12. Pink Paloma
Source: Partida
2 oz Partida Blanco
1 oz Ruby Red Grapefruit Juice
0.5 oz Fresh Lime Juice
0.5 oz Simple Syrup
1.5 oz Grapefruit Soda
13. Pink Sangria
Source: St-Rémy Signature
Ingredients:
2 oz St-Rémy Signature
0.7 oz Lemon Juice
0.3 oz Grenadine Syrup
0.3 oz Hibiscus Syrup
1 Egg White
1 Edible Flower
Directions: Combine all ingredients in a shaker with ice and shake. Double strain into a footed glass. Garnish with an edible flower and serve.
14. Pink Velvet by Disaronno
Source: Disaronno
15. Raspberry Collins by Fluere
Source: Fluère
60 ml Fluere Raspberry Blend
20 ml Simple Syrup
30 ml Lemon Juice
Top with soda water
Garnish: Raspberries and Fresh Mint Leaves
16. Raspberry Gimlet by Código 1530
Source: Codigo 15302 oz Codigo Rosa
1 oz Lime Juice
0.75 oz Simple Syrup
3 Raspberries (muddled)
Raspberry Garnish
Method: To prepare, simply add all the ingredients to a shaker, shake vigorously, strain into a glass, and garnish with raspberries.
17. Sparkling Cristalino
Source: Milagro
Ingredients:
2 parts Milagro Cristalino
10 parts Champagne
1⁄2 part Cointreau
Grapefruit peel to garnish
Method: Combine all ingredients in a champagne flute and garnish with grapefruit peel. Nothing says “I love you” like champagne, and adding Milagro Tequila is the perfect way to spice up your date night.
18. Sweetheart Affair
Source: Bacardi
19. Sweet Valentine by METAXA
Source: METAXA
Ingredients:
1.4 oz METAXA 12 Stars
1 oz White Chocolate Liqueur
0.7 oz Cream
Directions: Add all ingredients into a shaker. Shake well. Strain cocktail into a glass. Garnish with grated dark chocolate and a rose petal
20. The Strawbreeze
Source: Remy Martin
Ingredients:
1¾ oz Rémy Martin VSOP
3/4 oz strawberry syrup (or one bar spoon simple syrup and 3 muddled strawberries)
2/3 oz fresh lemon juice
1/3 oz egg white
Directions Shake all ingredients together and strain over crushed ice. If you are using fresh strawberries, muddle them first, before adding the other ingredients and shaking. Garnish with a fresh strawberry and mint.
21. Watermelon Kiwi Kiss
Top with ice and shake to chill. Pour into glass with a fine mesh strainer and stir to get all the infused liquid out. Top with an additional 1oz Waterloo Watermelon. Garnish with slice of kiwi and watermelon.
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