Holiday Cocktail Recipes Made with California Alcohol

If a kiss and a festive cocktail sounds like a perfect start to 2023, we’ve got some holiday recipes for you.

Before you start Dry January we’ve teamed up with a few of our favorite California alcohol brands to share a variety of fun sips to cheer in the new year.

The Cornucopia

FEATURING GRAY WHALE GIN & JOSH PROSECCO

1.5oz Gray Whale Gin

1 oz Pear Juice

.5oz Simple Syrup

.5oz Fresh Lemon Juice

3 oz Josh Prosecco

4 Green Grapes

Rosemary Sprig for garnish

Set aside 2 green grapes for garnish and combine remaining ingredients, except for Prosecco. Lightly muddle grapes. Shake vigorously. Double strain into a Champagne flute and top with Prosecco. Garnish with rosemary sprig skewered grapes. 

Season’s Greetings

featuring Gray Whale Gin

2 oz Gray Whale Gin 

1 oz Lemon juice 

1 oz Maple syrup

1 Egg white 

2 oz Black Cherry Cream Soda

Dry shake, then add ice and wet shake. Add soda and stir in the shaker. Double strain over pebbled or crushed ice into a Collins glass. Garnish with a rosemary sprig. 

Black Espresso Martini

Featuring humboldt organic vodka

1 oz Humboldt Organic Vodka

1.5 oz Mr.Black

1 oz Espresso

Combine in a shaker with ice and strain into a coupette.

Dirty Bloody Mary

Featuring Humboldt Organic Vodka

2 oz Humboldt Organic Vodka 

5 oz Diane's Dirty Bloody Mary Blend 

Lemon wedge 

Salt 

Tajin

Garnish: Crab claw, lemon, olives, celery or peperoncini

Rim a pint glass with salt and Tajin. Run a lemon wedge around the rim of the glass. Pour salt and Tajin onto a saucer, and invert the glass into the salt. The lemon juice will make the salt stick to the glass. Add Humboldt Organic Vodka and Add 5 oz Dirty Diane’s Bloody Mary Blend to the already rimmed glass. Top with ice. Gently mix. Garnish with a fresh lemon, pimento stuffed olives, a celery stalk, pepperoncinis, or Humboldt's favorite: a crab claw.

The Pom Pom Spritz

featuring Josh Cellars

2 oz Redemption Bourbon 

.75 oz grenadine 

.75 oz lime juice 

3 dashes Angostura bitters

Josh Prosecco

Shake ingredients together, except Prosecco. Pour into flute and top with Prosecco. Garnish with fresh mint and pomegranate seeds.