The holiday season is all about the sparkle, especially when it comes to wine, and especially on New Year’s Eve. Ingredients such as apple brandy, pear liqueur and wintery spices add seasonal flair for drinks you can enjoy long after the ball has dropped and the holiday decorations are put away.

Here are 10 recipes that we like for this year. (And for more bubbly ideas suggestions, here’s our New Year’s drinks roundup from 2022.)

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Amanda’s Holiday Spritz

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Keyword apple brandy, cinnamon, Crop Meyer lemon vodka, sparkling wine, spiced pear liqueur

Ingredients

• Makes 25 5-oz. cocktails
• 1 bottle Laird’s 7 ½ Year apple brandy
• 1 bottle St. George spiced pear liqueur
• 12 oz. Cinnamon-anise Demerara syrup
• 12 oz. Fresh lemon juice
• 1 bottle Champagne or dry sparkling wine

Instructions

• Combine ingredients in a punch bowl.
• Garnish with dehydrated lemon slices, whole star anise and cinnamon sticks.

Notes

For Cinnamon-anise demerara syrup
6 oz. Demerara sugar
6 oz. Boiling hot water
2 Cinnamon sticks
4 Star anise

Combine sugar and water and mix until sugar dissolves.
Add cinnamon and anise and let marinate for 48 hours.
Strain out spices and chill before batching.

Amanda Reed, beverage director of E3 Restaurant Group, created this recipe for Metropolitan Grill in Seattle.

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Glass Slipper

Course Drinks

Keyword blackberries, elderflower liqueur, Lavender honey, sparkling wine

Ingredients

• 3 Fresh blackberries
• 4 oz. Sparkling wine
• ¼ oz. St. Germain elderflower liqueur
• ¾ oz. Lavender honey syrup
• ¾ oz. Lemon juice

Instructions

• Muddle blackberries in a shaker tin.
• Add everything except sparkling wine and shake.
• Double strain into a flute glass.
• Top with sparkling wine/Champagne.
• Garnish with grapefruit shimmer and an edible orchid.

Notes

The mixologists at Westgate Las Vegas Resort & Casino in Las Vegas created this recipe.

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Ice, Spice, & Everything Nice

Course Drinks

Keyword Lillet rouge, sparkling wine, spice tea

Ingredients

• 1 x Holiday spiced ice*
• 1 parts Lillet Rouge
• 4 parts Mumm Sparkling Brut Prestige sparking wine

Instructions

• Add the Holiday Spice Ice to a wine glass.
• Follow with Lillet Rouge and then sparking wine.

Notes

*For Holiday Spiced Ice
28 oz. Brewed holiday spice tea
8 Star anise
8 Clementine half wheels
Edible gold flakes

Fill a 2×2” 8-cube silicon ice cube tray with 3-½ oz. of tea each. Top with half clementine wheel, star anise and edible gold flakes. Freeze.

The mixologists at Mumm created this recipe.

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Pomme Poire Spritz

Course Drinks

Keyword apple brandy, elderflower liqueur, pear liqueur, sparkling wine

Ingredients

• 1 ½ oz. Mathilde Poire liqueur
• ½ oz. Laird’s apple brandy
• ½ oz. St. Germain
• 3 oz. Pierre Sparr Crement D’Alscace sparkling wine
• Splash of club soda

Instructions

• Build drink directly into glass.
• Topping with sparkling wine and soda.
• Garnish with a dehydrated apple chip.

Notes

Enrique Diaz, head bartender at Bar Bastion, created this recipe for Le Jardinier in New York.

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French 24

Course Drinks

Keyword grapefruit soda, pommegranate, sparkling rosé, tequila

Ingredients

• 1 oz. Tequila
• ¾ oz. Pomegranate juice
• 2 oz. Grapefruit soda
• Top with Josh Cellars rosé prosecco

Instructions

• Combine tequila, juice and soda in a glass.
• Top off with prosecco.

Notes

The mixologists at Josh Cellars created this recipe.

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California Royale

Course Drinks

Keyword brandy, cranberry, lemon, sparkling wine, vanilla

Ingredients

• 1 oz. Argonaut Fat Thumb brandy
• ½ oz. Fresh lemon juice
• ½ oz. Cranberry juice cocktail
• 2 ½ oz. Dry sparkling wine
• 1 dash Vanilla extract

Instructions

• Combine all ingredients in a shaker tin except the sparkling wine.
• Shake with ice and strain into a coupe glass.
• Top with sparkling wine.
• Garnish with a thyme sprig and a fresh cranberry.

Notes

The mixologists at Argonaut created this recipe.

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Aurora 709

Course Drinks

Keyword blueberry, lemon, sparkling wine, vodka

Ingredients

• 1 ½ oz. Crystal Head Aurora vodka
• ¾ oz. Blueberry syrup
• ¾ oz. Fresh lemon juice
• Blueberries
• Top with sparkling wine

Instructions

• In a cocktail shaker add vodka, lemon juice, blueberry syrup and 4-5 blueberries.
• Muddle and shake over ice for 10-15 seconds.
• Double strain into a chilled coupe glass.
• Top with sparkling wine and garnish with a lemon zest ribbon.

Notes

The mixologists at Crystal Head created this recipe.

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Raspberry Wheat 75

Course Drinks

Keyword lemon, raspberry syrup, sparkling rosé, whiskey

Ingredients

• ½ oz. Old Elk wheat whiskey
• ¼ oz. Raspberry simple syrup
• ¼ oz. Lemon
• Sparkling rosé

Instructions

• Combine all ingredients except wine and shake.
• Strain into flute glass.
• Top with sparkling rosé.
• Garnish with fresh raspberry.

Notes

The mixologists at Old Elk created this recipe.

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Liquid Gold Sparkler

Course Drinks

Keyword Cointreau, lemon, Maraschino liqueur, Scotch

Ingredients

• 2 oz. Aberfeldy 12 Year Old Scotch
• ¼ oz. Maraschino liqueur
• ¼ oz. Lemon juice
• ½ oz. Cointreau

Instructions

• Rim a wine glass with golden sugar.
• Pour all ingredients and stir.

Notes

The mixologists at Aberfeldy created this recipe.