As the season turns, we’re reaching for bright, refreshing cocktails made for lingering sunlight and slow afternoons. From citrus-forward classics to floral, lightly bitter twists, these recipes offer a fresh seasonal shift that tastes and feels like spring.
CAZADORES Pomegranate Paloma
Ingredients:
1.5oz Cazadores Blanco
.5oz St-Germain Elderflower Liqueur
2oz pomegranate juice
2oz lime juice
Pinch of salt
Grapefruit soda to top
Grapefruit slice
Method: Rim a Collins glass with lime juice and salt. Combine Cazadores, pomegranate juice, and lime juice in the glass and stir. Top with grapefruit soda. Garnish with a grapefruit slice.
Clean Slate (By Bon Vivants)
Ingredients:
2oz Wodka vodka
.25oz Licor 43
.25oz fresh lime juice
.5oz fresh lemon juice
.5oz agave syrup
.5oz fresh cucumber juice
Cucumber wave
Edible flower
Method: Add all ingredients to a cocktail shaker with ice and shake vigorously until well chilled. Double strain into a chilled coupe glass.
Break Maiden (By J. Rieger & Co Distillery)
Ingredients:
1oz J. Rieger & Co. Midwestern Dry Gin
.75oz KC Canning Co Blood Orange Ginger Shrub
.25oz Giffard Passionfruit Liqueur
.25oz simple syrup (1:1 water to sugar)
3oz dry cider (we use Austin Eastciders)
Mint sprig
Method: Combine all ingredients in a cocktail glass with crushed ice. Garnish with a mint sprig.
Farmer's Spritz
Ingredients:
1.5 oz Farmer's Gin
.5 oz fresh lime juice
.5 oz elderflower liqueur
Prosecco
Mint sprig
Method: Shake ingredients except prosecco in a cocktail shaker with ice until chilled. Strain into a wine glass over fresh ice, top with prosecco, and garnish.
Cucamonga (By Bar Brucato)
Ingredients:
1.5oz Spring Almond
1oz El Dorado White Rum
.75oz lemon juice
.25oz simple syrup
1 dropper mint oil
3 slices cucumber
Method: Add all ingredients into a shaker, add ice and shake. Strain into Nick & Nora glass. Garnish with mint oil drops.
Ilegal Paper Plane
Ingredients:
.75oz Ilegal Mezcal Joven
.75oz triple sec
.75oz Aperol
.75oz lime juice
Lemon peel
Method: Build all ingredients in a cocktail shaker. Shake vigorously with ice. Strain up into coupe or Nick and Nora glass and finish with lime zest.
Cosmopolitan
Ingredients:
2oz Aspen Vodka
.75oz Orange Liqueur
.75oz Cranberry Juice
.75oz Lime Juice
Method: Add ingredients to an ice-filled shaker. Shake well. Strain into a coupe or martini glass.
Summer Pisco Sour (By JARANA Peruvian Cuisine & Pisco Bar)
Ingredients:
1.5oz pisco
1oz Aperol
1oz fresh lime juice
1oz simple syrup
1 egg white
Fresh mint leaves for garnish
Method: Dry shake all ingredients without ice for 10–15 seconds until foamy. Add ice and shake again until well chilled. Double strain into a chilled coupe or cocktail glass. Garnish with fresh mint leaves.
Glendalough Distillery Wild Rose Spritz
Ingredients:
1.5oz Glendalough Distillery Wild Rose Irish Gin
.75oz elderflower liqueur
2oz Prosecco
1oz sparkling water
1 large mint sprig
Fresh rose petal or lemon slice for garnish
Method: Build in a wine glass over ice. Add gin and elderflower liqueur and stir gently. Top with Prosecco and sparkling water. Garnish with a mint sprig and a rose petal or lemon slice.
Lovely Lavender Lemonade
Ingredients:
.5oz Torani Lavender Syrup
8oz lemonade
.5oz Butterfly pea flower tea, brewed*
Ice
Method: Combine the Torani Lavender Syrup, lemonade, and ice in a tall glass. Gently spoon the tea on top.
*Butterfly pea flower tea: brew 1 oz. leaves in 8 oz. hot water for 10 minutes; strain.
Spicy Matador
Ingredients:
1.5oz Tres Agaves Tequila Blanco
3oz pineapple juice
.5oz lime juice
Half-muddled jalapeño
Black salted half rim
Lime wheel and jalapeño slice
Method: Wet half rim of a martini or coupe glass with lime and dip in black salt. Muddle half a jalapeño in a shaker. Add tequila, pineapple juice, and lime juice. Fill shaker with ice and shake vigorously for 30 seconds. Double strain into glass. Garnish with lime wheel and jalapeño slice.
Strawberry Sake Spritz
Ingredients:
2.5oz TYKU Sake Junmai
.25oz simple syrup
1oz strawberry purée
.5oz lemon juice
Prosecco to top
Strawberry fan and mint
Method: Build in a wine glass over ice. Stir gently. Top with prosecco.
Lillet Tonique
Ingredients:
3oz Lillet Blanc
.75oz tonic syrup
3oz seltzer, chilled
Lemon slice
Method: Fill a chilled wine glass halfway with ice. Add Lillet and tonic syrup and stir using a bar spoon until combined. Add seltzer and, using a bar spoon, gently lift the Lillet mixture from the bottom of the glass to the top to combine. Top with additional ice and garnish with a lemon slice. Serve.
Blueberry & Lavender (by Roberto Bracco, Head Bartender, Dante Aperitivo)
Ingredients:
1oz Monkey 47 Gin
.25oz Grey Goose Rouge
.75oz lavender-infused Cocchi Americano
.5oz blueberry (clarified)
.75oz Bitter Bianco
.25oz Pasubio
3 dashes lavender bitters
1 dash saline solution (1:50)
1 barspoon citric acid solution
.75oz Acqua Panna water
Method: Add all ingredients except water to a mixing glass with ice and stir until well chilled. Strain into a chilled rocks glass over a large ice cube and top with Panna water.
2025 All Day Hunt Country Rose
The 2025 Hunt Country Rosé from Millbrook Vineyards & Winery is an easy, all-day spring pour—bright with notes of strawberry, cherry, and Meyer lemon, and a natural fit for leisurely brunches as the season warms.
