Celebration Cocktails

It’s the time of year with holiday parties aplenty and gifting occasions at every turn. This year, as you’re picking up a host or hostess gift or pouring your favorite libation at your holiday get together, why not consider supporting brands that have been supporting the LGBTQ community for decades. Both BAREFOOT CELLARS and STOLI GROUP have affordable and delicious offerings to brighten up the holiday season.

Barefoot has been a proud ally to the LGBTQ community since the ‘80s, when they made their first donation to an LGBTQ organization. Since then, the brand has sponsored hundreds of Pride Festivals worldwide, inculding the Utah Pride Festival, provided wine and bubbly for countless LGBTQ non-profit organizations and has given the community a platform to share their stories with several content series including One Stride, Many Journeys and the short documentary One Stride: Chosen Family. Stoli has also been an ally to the community for decades. For the past six years the vodka brand hosted the Key West Cocktail Classic, the world’s largest LGBTQ bartending competition that celebrates the gay bar as the original safe space for the community. Additionally, for the past two years Stoli has created limited edition Pride bottles to celebrate the community and, more specifically, the lives of Harvey Milk and those that sacrificed during the Stonewall Riots. Each bottle gave back to the community through a non-profit donation.

Meet Me Under the Mistletoe

INGREDIENTS:

• 3 ounces Barefoot Bubbly Extra Dry

• 6 mint sprigs (approximately 12-15 leaves)

• ½ ounce maple syrup

• 2/3 ounce E&J Gallo XO Brandy

• Candy Cane

DIRECTIONS:

1. Place mint leaves in a cocktail shaker with ice

2. Add maple syrup and brandy

3. Shake hard to break up the mint

4. Strain into a rocks glass filled with crushed ice

5. Top with Barefoot Bubbly Extra Dry

6. Garnish with candy cane

Holiday Frost

INGREDIENTS:

• 3 ounces Barefoot Sweet Red

• 1/2 ounce Raspberry Liqueur

• 1 ounce Pomegranate Juice

• 1/4 ounce Lime Juice

• 1/4 ounce Simple Syrup

• Sugar Coated Raspberries Garnish

DIRECTIONS:

1. Gently roll raspberries in granulated sugar and place on a cocktail pick. Set aside.

2. Combine all liquid ingredients in a cocktail shaker with ice.

3. Shake until well chilled.

4. Strain into chilled cocktail glass.

5. Place sugar coated raspberries on pick across glass

Stoli Baby New Year

• 1.5 parts Stoli Razberi

• 1 part sweet Riesling

• 0.5 parts fresh lemon juice

• Champagne

DIRECTIONS:

1. Combine all ingredients (except champagne) in a shaker with ice.

2. Shake and strain into a champagne flute.

3. Top with champagne and garnish with a fresh raspberry.