12 Low-Alcohol co*cktails You Can Sip All Year Long (2024)

Courtesy of the Four Seasons Hotel Seattle

Ingredients

1 oz Dolin dry vermouth

1 oz Contratto bianco vermouth

.5 oz fresh lemon juice

.5 oz rosemary syrup*

Instructions

Shake ingredients and strain into an ice-filled collins glass and top with club soda. Garnish with a fresh sprig of rosemary.

*Rosemary Syrup

· 4 fresh rosemary stalks (leaves pulled off and chopped)

· 1 cup water

· 2 cups sugar

Stir together first three ingredients in a medium saucepan over medium-high heat. Bring to a boil, stirring occasionally, and simmer for 10 minutes. Remove from heat, and let stand 30 minutes. Pour liquid through a wire-mesh strainer into a cruet or airtight container, discarding rosemary sprigs. Cover and chill four hours. Syrup may be stored in refrigerator up to one month.

Courtesy of Le Sel, Nashville

Ingredients

1.5 oz La Garrocha Amontillado Sherry

1.5 oz Morenita Cream Sherry

.5 oz Pierre Ferrand Dry Curacao

.5 oz Clear Creek Cranberry Liqueur

.5 oz Demerara syrup

2 lemon eights, muddled

1 orange rind piece, muddled

Instructions

Shake, strain into a glass with crushed ice. Garnish with a mint bouquet and two orange half wheels.

Created by Brahm Callahan at Harvest, Cambridge, MA

Ingredients

2 oz Lillet Rose

.5 ozKetel One Vodka

.75 ozSt. Germain

.75 ozProsecco float

Instructions

Add ingredients to shaker with ice. Shake and strain into coupe glass. Top with a Prosecco float.

Created by Meaghan Dorman for the Bennett, New York City

Ingredients

.5 oz Strawberry shrub (made with strawberries, raspberry vinegar, sugar)

1 oz Aperol

3 oz Rose vino verde

Splash of club soda

Instructions

Combine all ingredients in a wine glass over ice and stir. Garnish with 4 strawberry slices.

Created by Adele Stratton, Noble Experiment, San Diego

Ingredients

2 oz Aperol

1 oz Giffard Apricot Liqueur

.75 oz Fresh Lemon Juice

2 oz. Champagne

2 oz. Club Soda

3 Cucumber Slices

2 turns Cracked Salt

"For me, [the taste of a co*cktail] always comes back to balance. When drinking a low ABV co*cktails I always look for the "dry" element such as Champagne, amaro and citrus notes. When it's hot and sunny out there is nothing better than a cool refreshing bubbly co*cktail, like the High Garden Spritz."—Adele Stratton, Noble Experiment, San Diego, CA

Created by Percy Rodriguez at The Vine, New York City

Ingredients

1.5 oz Ford's Gin

.5 oz lime juice

.5 oz simple syrup

1 oz house-made cucumber mint water

3 dasheshouse-made cardamom tincture

Instructions

Combine all ingredients in a shaker, double strain and pour into a coupe glass. Garnish with a long cucumber slice and a pinch of cayenne pepper.

Created by Franky Marshall for Le Boudoir, Brooklyn

Ingredients

1.5 oz Aperol

.75 oz Cinzano Bianco

.5 oz Fresh Lemon Juice

.5 oz Simple Syrup

3 Ripe Raspberries

Instructions

Add raspberries to mixing tin, gently muddle. Add the rest of ingredients. Shake with ice. Fine strain into wine glass over fresh ice. Top with 1 oz of dry sparkling wine. Garnish with fresh raspberries and mint.

Courtesy of Odys + Penelope, Los Angeles

Ingredients

3 oz Dolin Blanc

1 oz blueberry juice

Half a lime squeezed to taste (the sweetness of the blueberry juice will likely determine the amount of lime—you might want to include more or less than half a lime)

Instructions

Shake ingredients with ice and pour directly into a glass.

Courtesy of Giuseppe Gonzalez at Suffolk Arms, New York City

Ingredients

.75 oz Domaine de Canton Ginger Liqueur

1 oz dry vermouth

Top with Schofferhofer Grapefruit Beer

Instructions

In a Bordeaux glass, add ice, liqueur and vermouth. Top with beer. Garnish with cucumber, strawberry, orange and mint.

Courtesy of Jane Elkins of Dream Baby, New York City

Ingredients

.75 oz Domaine de Canton Ginger Liqueur

.75 oz Aperol

Schofferhofer Grapefruit Beer

Instructions

Combines Aperol and ginger liqueur in a glass with ice. Top with Schofferhofer Grapefruit Beer. Garnish with a slice of grapefruit or 10 blueberries.

Courtesy of Truly Spiked & Sparkling

Ingredients

6 oz Truly Spiked & Sparkling Pomegranate

2 oz red wine

Assorted Citrus Fruits (Oranges, etc.)

Assorted Fresh Berries (Raspberries, strawberries, blueberries)

Brandy

Instructions

In advance, soak fruit in brandy. Combine 6 oz Truly Pomegranate and 2 oz red wine in a red wine glass over ice. Garnish with orange slice. NOTE: To make batch sangria, use 3:1 ratio of Truly Pomegranate to red wine.

Ingredients

3 parts Cinzano Prosecco

2 parts Aperol

1 splash of soda

Instructions

Serve over ice in a stemmed balloon wine glass. Add a slice of orange, pour in the Prosecco, the Aperol and a splash of soda.