Valentine’s Day is all about love, and what better way to toast to romance than with a beautifully crafted cocktail?

Whether you’re toasting with your special someone, celebrating self-love, or clinking glasses with your besties, the right drink can elevate the moment. From floral-infused spritzes to decadent chocolate-kissed creations, these love-inspired libations are sure to make hearts flutter.

Feeling flirty? Aphrodite’s Arrow blends Patron Silver with raspberry purée and coconut milk for a creamy, tropical treat worthy of the goddess of love herself. More of a hopeless romantic? Sip on the Bombay Rose, a delicate mix of gin, lychee, and rose water that’s as elegant as a bouquet of flowers. And for the chocolate lovers, Lovers Lane delivers pure decadence with vodka, chocolate liqueur, and fresh raspberries — because what’s Valentine’s Day without a little indulgence? No matter your plans, these cocktails are crafted to make the day deliciously unforgettable. Cheers to love in every sip!

An infusion of tropical paradise and berry bliss, each sip unveils a harmonious dance of flavors that is both a tribute to the goddess Aphrodite and a gift for the lover in you.

The Dove

Ingredients

• 2 oz. Cazcanes Blanco No. 7
• ½ oz. Fresh Lime Juice
• Pinch of Salt
• 4 oz. Grapefruit Soda
• Jarritos, Squirt, or Fresca, or fresh-squeezed
• Grapefruit Juice
• Garnish: Grapefruit wedge or lime wheel

Preparation

1. Rim a highball glass with lime and dip in coarse salt.
2. Add tequila, lime juice, and salt to the glass.
3. Fill with ice, top with grapefruit soda, and stir gently.
4. Garnish with a grapefruit wedge or lime wheel.

Evoke the feeling of sand in your toes wherever you are with Christina Maffei’s Beachwalk Bellini.

Beachwalk Bellini

by Christina Maffei

Ingredients

• 1 ½ oz. BACARDÍ Peach Rum
• 4 oz. Prosecco
• 1 oz. The Perfect Purée White Peach Puree, thawed
• ½ oz. The Perfect Purée Red Raspberry Puree, thawed
• ½ oz. Simple Syrup

Preparation

1. Combine ingredients into a mixing glass with ice.
2. Shake with a Boston shaker and strain into a white wine glass.
3. Garnish with 2 raspberries on a pick and serve.

Valentine’s Day is synonymous with roses!

Photo by Cody Goldstein

Coming Up Roses

by Cody Goldstein / @muddlingmemories

Ingredients

• 1 ½ oz. Aviation American Gin
• ½ oz. Blanc Vermouth
• 1 oz. The Perfect Purée Strawberry Puree, thawed
• ½ oz. Basil and Rose Honey
• ½ oz. Bergamot
• Mineral Water, to top

Preparation

1. Add all ingredients and shake for 5 seconds.
2. Strain into a Nick and Nora glass and top with mineral water
3. Garnish with a basil “boat” and dehydrated roses.

The Heartbreaker

Ingredients

• 1 ½ oz. Hacienda de Chihuahua Sotol Plata
• ½ oz. Strawberry Creme
• ½ oz. Aperol
• 1 oz. Lemon Juice
• 4 tsp. Strawberry Jam
• Garnish: Strawberry or Cherry

Preparation

1. Mix all ingredients and pour over ice.

Manny Hinojosa’s Bombay Rose is the one for old school romantics.

Bombay Rose

by Manny Hinojosa, Global Brand Ambassador / Tequila Cazadores

Ingredients

• 1 ½ oz. Bombay Sapphire East
• ¾ oz. The Perfect Purée Lychee Puree, thawed
• ¼ oz. Rose Water
• ¼ oz. Hand Pressed Lime Juice
• ½ oz. Turbinado Sugar Syrup

Preparation

1. Combine ingredients in a mixing glass with ice.
2. Shake and pour into a chilled martini glass.
3. Garnish with a rose petal and lime twist.

Will You Be Mine

by Mixologist Jessica Christensen / Graton Resort & Casino

Ingredients

• 1 ¼ oz. Stoli Razberi Vodka
• ¾ oz. Chambord
• 1 oz. Fresh Squeezed Lemon Juice
• 4 Raspberries
• 1 tsp. Agave
• Lemonade, to top
• Soda Water, to top

Preparation

1. In a shaking tin add 4 raspberries and muddle.
2. Then add vodka, Chambord and lemon juice.
3. Squeeze in about a teaspoon of agave, add a little more if you like it sweeter (simple syrup works here too if that’s what you have on hand, go with ½ oz to start).
4. Add ice to your shaking tin and shake for about 10 seconds.
5. Strain over fresh ice in a collins glass and top it off with half lemonade and half soda water.
6. Garnish with raspberries and a dried rosebud for a cute valentine’s touch!

“This drink was created after my personal favorite valentine’s day treat, chocolate covered raspberries. It is meant to be decadent, slightly sweet, but still light and easy to sip on.” — Jessica

Lovers Lane

by Mixologist Jessica Christensen / Graton Resort & Casino

Ingredients

• ¾ oz. Charbay Vodka
• ¾ oz. Mozart Chocolate Liqueur
• ¼ oz. Chambord
• ¾ oz. Heavy Cream
• 4-5 Fresh Raspberries

Preparation

1. In a shaker tin, add your raspberries and muddle.
2. Add all other ingredients, ice, and shake.
3. Strain into a chilled coupe glass and garnish with dried rose petals.

This visually striking and delicious cocktail, created by SMOKE LAB National Mixologist and Industry expert, @paulalukas27, is the perfect elixir to set the mood for any February 14th celebration.

You’re In My Heart

Ingredients

• 1 ½ oz. SMOKE LAB Vodka
• 1 oz. Vermut Lustau Rose’ Vermouth
• ½ oz. Portland Syrups Rose Cordial
• 3 oz. Mionetto Prosecco Rose’
• ¼ tsp. pink edible glitter
• Garnish: 1 Red Rose Petal

Preparation

1. Combine SMOKE LAB Vodka, Vermouth, Rose Cordial and edible glitter in a shaker with ice.
2. Shake and strain into a flute or coupe.
3. Top with Prosecco Rose’ and garnish with a red rose petal.

Chateau Breakfast

Ingredients

• 1 ½ oz. Herradura Reposado
• 1 oz. Lime Juice
• ½ oz. Chambord
• ¼ oz. Raspberry Simple Syrup
• ½ oz. Egg White

Preparation

1. 1. Dry Shake.
2. 2. Shake with Ice.
3. 3. Fine strain serve up.

Woodford Reserve Bourbon Raspberry Sour

Ingredients

• 1 ½ oz. Woodford Reserve Double Oaked
• ½ oz. Chambord
• ¾ oz. Fresh Lemon Juice
• 3 Dashes Woodford Reserve Chocolate Bitters

Preparation

1. Combine all ingredients in a shaker, add ice, shake, and double strain into a coupe or martini glass.
2. Garnish with three skewered raspberries.

Glendalough Rose Martini

Ingredients

• 1 ½ oz. Glendalough Wild Rose Gin
• ½ oz. Dry Vermouth
• ½ oz. Elderflower Liqueur
• Garnish: Lemon Twist

Preparation

1. Combine ingredients in a mixing glass with ice and stir until very cold.
2. Strain into a martini glass and garnish with a lemon twist.

Rose and Raspberry Fizz

Ingredients

• 1 ½ oz. Glendalough Wild Rose Gin
• ½ oz. Raspberry Syrup
• ½ oz. Aperol
• 1 ½ oz. Soda Water

Preparation

1. Shake all ingredients (except soda) with ice.
2. Strain into a tall ice filled glass.
3. Add the soda, then garnish with a raspberry and a freshly torn and slapped sprig of mint.

Pomegranate Citrus Avaline Rose Spritz

by Louise Buckley

Ingredients

• 1 c. Pomegranate Juice
• 1-2 Grapefruits, thinly sliced
• 1-2 Blood Oranges, thinly sliced
• 1 c. Kumquats, sliced in half (optional)
• 1 bottle of Avaline Rose
• Sparkling Water (to taste)

Preparation

1. Combine pomegranate juice, grapefruit, blood oranges, kumquat slices, and Avaline Rosé in a large pitcher.
2. When ready to serve, top with sparkling water (to taste), a slice of grapefruit, and a couple kumquat halves.

(RED)rita

Ingredients

• 1 ½ oz. Tequila Lobos 1707 Reposado
• ½ oz. Pierre Ferard Dry Curaçao
• 1 oz. Pomegranate Juice
• ½ oz. Fresh Lime Juice
• 2-3 dashes Angostura West Indian Orange Bitters
• Pomegranate Arils

Preparation

1. Rim your rocks glass with Tajin and fill with ice.
2. Shake all ingredients with ice and fine-strain into rocks glass.

Blushing Heart Spritz

Ingredients

• 1 ½ 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

Sweetheart Affair

Ingredients

• 2 oz. BACARDÍ Superior Rum
• 1 oz. Lime Juice
• 1/3 oz. Extra Fine Sugar

Preparation

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

Cupid’s Flight

Ingredients

• 1 ½ oz. Santa Teresa 1796
• ¾ oz. Martini Bitters
• 1 oz. Pineapple Juice
• ½ oz. Lime Juice
• ¼ oz. Simple Syrup

Preparation

1. Add all ingredients in shaken tin, add ice, shake and strain over glassware.
2. Garnish with pineapple leaf and lime wheel.

Bacan Berry Smash

Ingredients

• 1 ½ oz. Bacan Guaro 29
• ½ cup of Fresh Raspberries or 2 oz. Frozen Raspberries, defrosted
• Juice from ½ Lime
• ½ oz. Agave (adjust to taste)
• Grapefruit Soda
• Mint and/or Pink Grapefruit Slice

Preparation

1. Muddle mint, raspberries, lime, agave and Bacan 29.
2. Add ice and shake in a cocktail shaker.
3. Pour into rocks glass over ice.
4. Top with grapefruit soda.
5. Garnish with mint and/or slice of pink grapefruit.

Champaguaro

by Elcielo Restaurant — Miami, FL

Ingredients

• 2 oz. Bacan Guaro 29
• 2 oz. Champagne (Brut or Nature), well chilled

Preparation

1. Add Bacan into a flute or coupe and top with chilled Champagne.
2. Garnish with a strawberry on the rim.

Bacanccino

Ingredients

• 1 ¾ oz. Bacan Guaro 24
• 3 oz. Espresso (cooled)
• ½ oz. White Chocolate Syrup
• Dark Chocolate, grated

Preparation

1. Add Bacan Guaro 24, cooled espresso, and white chocolate syrup in a shaker with ice.
2. Shake well until cold.
3. Strain into a coupe glass.
4. Garnish with grated dark chocolate on top.

The Reid Berry Caipiroska

Ingredients

• 1 ½ oz. The Reid Vodka
• 1 Whole Lime, cut into quarters
• ½ oz. Simple Syrup
• 3-4 Fresh Medium Strawberries or 4-5 Frozen Strawberries (defrosted)*

Preparation

1. Add ingredients to a cocktail shaker.
2. Muddle lime and strawberries.
3. Add ice to the shaker.
4. Shake and pour all contents into a rocks glass.
5. Garnish with strawberries and mint.

Additional Notes

*Note: If using puree instead of strawberries, use: 2 oz. The Reid Vodka, 1 oz. strawberry puree, 5-6 lime wedges and muddle lime, puree, and The Reid. Adjust for personal sweetness/sourness. Add crushed ice, swizzle, top with more crushed ice. Garnish with a strawberry and mint.