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You are here: Home / Living / Food & Drink / Adult Beverages / Six Labor Day Weekend Cocktails to Bid Summer Farewell

Six Labor Day Weekend Cocktails to Bid Summer Farewell

September 2, 2016 by Naptown Buzz

Labor Day Weekend is here, and we have SIX cocktails for you to whip up as we bid summer farewell!

SVEDKA’s Berry Summer Sipper

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Ingredients:

  • 1-3/4 parts SVEDKA Vodka
  • 3/4 part lemonade
  • 1/2 part triple sec
  • 1 part cranberry juice
  • Juice of 6 whole limes
  • 12 cups ice
  • Whole blueberries & sliced strawberries

Instructions:

  • Combine all ingredients in a punch bowl.
  • Add 5-6 cups of ice, stir, and garnish with blueberries and sliced strawberries.
  • As the party continues add more ice and fruit as needed.
  • Yields 25-30 servings.

SVEDKA’s Summer Curtain Call

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Ingredients:

  • 1-1/2 parts SVEDKA Cucumber Lime
  • 3/4 part simple syrup
  • 3/4 part fresh lime juice
  • 1 strawberry (top removed)

Instructions:

  • Muddle strawberry in a cocktail shaker, add remaining ingredients, and fill with ice.
  • Shake well and fine strain into a Collins glass over fresh ice.
  • Garnish with strawberries and a cucumber slice.

KIM CRAWFORD Wine’s Summer Sunset

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Ingredients:

  • 750 ml of grapefruit juice
  • 750 ml (1 bottle) Kim Crawford Sauvignon Blanc

Instructions:

  • Pour juice and wine into a shallow plastic container, cover with plastic wrap and place in the freezer.
  • Using a fork, stir the mixture every 30 minutes, breaking up the ice until granita is frozen (about 3 hours).
  • Scoop into chilled coupe glasses.
  • Garnish with edible flowers and serve with a dessert spoon.

KIM CRAWFORD Wine’s Labor of Love

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Ingredients:

  • 1 seedless cucumber, thinly sliced
  • 1 lime thinly sliced
  • Fresh mint leaves
  • 1/4 cup of lime juice
  • 1/4 cup of honey
  • 1 bottle of Kim Crawford Sauvignon Blanc
  • 1 liter bottle carbonated water, chilled

Instructions:

  • In a large pitcher, combine cucumber, lime slices and 12 mint leaves in a large pitcher.
  • In a small bowl, stir together lime juice and honey until combined.
  • Pour over cucumber mixer, add wine, stirring gently.
  • Cover and chill for at least two hours. (Recipe makes a batch. For single serving, use parts;1 oz = 1 part).

KIM CRAWFORD Wine’s Summer Smash

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Ingredients:

  • 2 parts Kim Crawford Sauvignon Blanc
  • 3-4 pieces lemon wedge
  • Pinch of mint
  • .75 parts simple syrup
  • Mint sprig

Instructions:

  • Muddle Mint, lemon and simple syrup in a cocktail shaker.
  • Add Kim Crawford Sauvignon Blanc.
  • Strain into a rocks glass over fresh ice.
  • Garnish with a mint sprig.

Ruffino Wines’s La Vita Ruffino

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Ingredients:

  • 2 parts Ruffino Prosecco
  • 1-1/2 part fresh grapefruit juice
  • 1 part Campari
  • 3/4 part honey syrup (2:1 honey to water)

Glass: Highball
Garnish: Grapefruit slice

Instructions:

  • Build cocktail in a high ball glass with ice.
  • Garnish with a grapefruit slice

Filed Under: Adult Beverages, Food & Drink, Living Tagged With: Cocktails




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