Spirit.Ed: Check Out These Sweet Sips 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. We’ve got a few brands we’ve featured in Spirit.Ed before and a few new entrants. 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! — Photo: Getty

1. Big Love by Cointreau

Ingredients:
1 oz Cointreau
0.5 oz Beet Juice
0.25 oz Lemon Juice
1.25 oz Strawberry Shrub
1.25 oz Vodka

Directions:
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

Ingredients:
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

2oz Club Kokomo Spirits Tahitian Vanilla Rum
1 oz Lime
1 oz Cranberry Simple Syrup
Cranberries

Directions: Combine all ingredients in a shaker tin. Add ice to the shaker (half a tin is fine). Shake well for about 15 seconds, strain contents in to coupe. Garnish with cranberries.

4. Cupid’s Flight

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 in shaken tin, add ice, shake and strain over glassware. Garnish with pineapple leaf and lime wheel.

5. Cutwater Strawberry White Russian

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

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. Garnish with a lemon twist.

7. Grapefruit Rose Spritz

Created 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

Ingredients:
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

Combine ingredients and shake. Strain into a martini glass.

9. Kiss Me in the Caribbean

Ingredients:
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

Ingredients:
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

Directions: Build in a shaker, shake, and strain into a flute or stemmed wine glass. Top with Prosecco (or Brut for a drier finish) and garnish with a fresh strawberry slice.

11. Pamplemousses by Belle de Brillet

Ingredients:
1.75 oz Belle de Brillet
0.5 oz Lemon Juice
3.5 oz Grapefruit Soda
1 oz Prosecco

Directions:
Pour all ingredients into a glass full of ice and stir gently Garnish with a slice of grapefruit.

12. Pink Paloma

Ingredients:
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

Directions: Add ingredients to a cocktail shaker with ice. Shake and strain into a chilled highball glass over ice, add soda, and stir. Garnish with a grapefruit wedge.

13. Pink Sangria

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

Ingredients:
50 ml Disaronno Velvet
10 ml Disaronno Originale
25 ml Red Bitter
Pinch of sea salt

Directions: Add all the ingredients into a mixing glass with ice. Stir and strain into a chilled rocks glass with ice. Finish with a pinch of sea salt.

15. Raspberry Collins by Fluere

Ingredients:
60 ml Fluere Raspberry Blend
20 ml Simple Syrup
30 ml Lemon Juice
Top with soda water
Garnish: Rasberries and Fresh Mint Leaves

Directions: Add all the ingredients into a chilled highball glass with ice. Add Soda Water last, stir and garnish with raspberries and fresh mint leaves.

16. Raspberry Gimlet by Código 1530

2 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

Ingredients:
2 parts Milagro Cristalino
10 parts Champagne
1⁄2 part Cointreau
Grapefruit peel to garnish

Method: Pour all ingredients into a champagne flute to combine 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

Ingredients:
2 oz BACARDÍ Superior Rum
1 oz lime juice
1/3 oz extra fine sugar

Method: Add lime juice and sugar to a shaker and stir until the sugar has dissolved. Pour in the BACARDÍ Superior rum and fill the shaker with half-cubed ice, followed by some half-crushed ice. Place the lid on the shaker and shake vigorously until thoroughly chilled. Finally, strain through a fine tea strainer into a chilled coupette.

19. Sweet Valentine by 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

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

Ingredients:
5oz Waterloo Watermelon Sparkling Water
1 Whole Kiwi
2 Basil Leaves
Kiwi Slice
Watermelon Slice

Directions:
Peel kiwi and muddle with basil leaves and 2oz Waterloo Watermelon in a cocktail shaker.
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.

Spirit.Ed: Check Out These Sweet Sips For Valentine's Day 2025