Classic Cocktail Recipes: Vodka, Gin, and Tequila Drinks

Vodka Rickey

Ingredients:

• 2 ounces vodka
• 1 ounce lemon juice
• 1 cube of ice

Preparation:

1. Use a medium glass.
2. Top with soda water (Cristal or Perrier).
3. Garnish with a slice of lemon.

Vodka Saline

Ingredients:

• 1 ½ ounces of vodka
• Lemon juice
• Grapefruit juice
• Salt

Preparation:

1. Frost a round (ball) glass with lemon juice and salt.
2. Add the vodka and 2 or 3 ice cubes.
3. Top with grapefruit juice.
4. Garnish with a lemon peel.

Vodka Sour

Ingredients:

• 2 ounces vodka
• ½ ounce lemon juice
• ½ ounce simple syrup

Preparation:

1. Combine ingredients in a shaker with ice.
2. Shake well, strain into a half-filled glass.
3. Top with soda water, seltzer, Cristal, or Perrier.
4. Garnish with a slice of lemon.
5. Serve with straws.

Vodka Sour Special

Ingredients:

• 2 ½ ounces of vodka
• ½ ounce Campari
• ½ ounce cherry brandy
• ½ ounce lemon juice

Preparation:

1. Combine ingredients in a shaker with ice.
2. Shake well, strain, and serve in a medium glass.
3. Garnish with a red cherry, a green cherry, and half a slice of orange.

Vodka Zoom

Ingredients:

• 2 ounces vodka
• 1 tablespoon honey
• 2 ounces water

Preparation:

1. In a medium glass, dissolve the honey in the water.
2. Transfer the mixture to a shaker with ice and add the vodka.
3. Stir, strain, and serve in a wine glass.

Zarina

Ingredients:

• ½ ounce of vodka
• ¼ ounce dry vermouth
• ¼ ounce of apricot brandy
• ¼ ounce of narrow

Preparation:

1. Prepare ingredients in a mixing glass with ice.
2. Strain and serve in a cocktail glass.

Gibson

Ingredients:

• ¼ ounce of dry vermouth
• 2 ounces gin
• 1 cocktail onion

Preparation:

1. Pour the vermouth into a mixing glass with ice cubes.
2. Add the gin and stir until chilled.
3. Serve strained in a chilled cocktail glass.
4. Garnish with a well-drained cocktail onion.

Margarita

Ingredients:

• 2 ounces tequila
• Juice of ½ lime
• ½ ounce Cointreau
• Salt for rimming the glass

Preparation:

1. Rim a cocktail glass with salt.
2. Shake all liquid ingredients with crushed ice.
3. Strain into the prepared glass and serve.

Dubonnet Cocktail

Ingredients:

• 1 ounce Dubonnet
• 1 ounce gin
• 1 lemon peel

Preparation:

1. Combine the Dubonnet and gin in a mixing glass with ice.
2. Serve strained in a chilled cocktail glass.
3. Garnish with the lemon peel.

Merry Widow

Ingredients:

• 1 ounce Dubonnet
• 1 ounce gin
• 1 lemon peel

Preparation:

1. Combine the Dubonnet and gin in a mixing glass with ice.
2. Serve strained in a chilled cocktail glass.
3. Garnish with the lemon peel.