Spring Cocktails To Match Your Easter Egg - featuring the season's brightest colors!

Spring Cocktail As spring is upon us, it’s time to celebrate warm weather, sunshine and lots of color.

While your family is decorating this year’s Easter eggs, bring the adults together to enjoy a festive cocktail, courtesy of today’s leading mixologists. These drinks are sure to impress your guests and dress up your Easter dinner.

We also have great spring cocktail tips from master mixologist, Milo Rodriguez. By following his tips, you can entertain like a pro – and still find time to enjoy the season’s festivities.

Tips from the pros:
 

– How to make the most of your next Easter / Spring party with cocktail tips from Milo.

1. Keep your cocktails simple. The fewer mixers the better!
2. Always serve a premium based spirit – like Bombay Sapphire Gin.
3. The fresher the ingredients – the better. It’s the spring and fresh fruit is in abundance. Strawberries, peaches, cherries and more!
4. Add a garnish. Impress your guests with a lemon peel or handful of berries.
5. Always include ice in your cocktail. Keeps your cocktail cold and your guests happy.

Lavender Egg – Sapphire Lavender Collins
It is said that purple signifies royalty and wealth – what better then to choose a cocktail with a spirit that honors English tradition and excellence, Bombay Sapphire Gin. A leading London-dry gin, Bombay Sapphire’s 10 botanicals work perfectly in this cocktail. The combination of tart lemon juice and fresh, bright lavender syrup are the perfect welcome to spring.

Sapphire Lavender Collins
Available at Eastern Standard, Boston

1 ½ parts BOMBAY SAPPHIRE® gin
¾ part fresh lemon juice
½ part lavender syrup
Top with club soda

Squeeze half a lemon into a Collins glass, add lavender syrup and BOMBAY SAPPHIRE.
Stir and fill with ice. Top with club soda and garnish with a lemon wedge.

Green Egg – Lucid Mint Muse
The color green is found throughout nature and signifies renewal. We have a tasty and refreshing cocktail, the Lucid Mint Muse, that’s perfect for celebrating spring and all-things GREEN! From the brand responsible for lifting the 100 year absinthe ban back in 2007, the anise flavor of absinthe complements the fresh mint in this cocktail – and it’s light enough to enjoy in the warm sun.

Lucid Mint Muse
Available at Pigalle, NYC
1 ½ oz. Lucid
2 oz. Pineapple Juice
Muddled Mint Leaves
Lime Wedge
Topped with Sprite or 7-UP

Muddle mint leaves with lime wedge and add Lucid. Add ice and pineapple juice and shake briefly. Top with Sprite or 7-UP and add mint sprig.

Yellow Egg – Xanté neat
Birds are chirping, flowers are blooming, and the yellow sun is shining – Spring is here! Smooth and slightly sweet, Xanté is a brand new pear-flavored liqueur from Sweden that is available nationwide, and creating a lot of buzz from coast to coast. Best served chilled or over ice, the pear flavor is delicious on its own or served up in a cocktail. The golden yellow color shines brightly in a cocktail glass – just like the sun.

Xanté
Available at Stone Rose, NYC

Chill. Pour. Enjoy.

Pink Egg – VeeV Eco-Aid
Pink represents fresh beginnings, and all things fun, flirty and fabulous. Match your cocktail to the brightest color of the season: PINK, with a delectable VeeV Eco-Aid. VeeV is the World’s First Acai Spirit – and 1$ of every bottle sold goes back to the Amazon rainforest – so you can sip something good for you and give back at the same time – very much in the Easter spirit.

VeeV Eco-Aid Cocktail
Available at W Hotel, Miami
1.5 oz VeeV Açaí Spirit
Lemonade
Splash of cranberry juice (optional)

Build in an ice-filled highball glass and stir well. Garnish with a lemon slice