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This spring break cocktail with a scandalous name blends vodka, peach schnapps, fresh orange juice, and cranberry.

This easy recipe teaches how to make the best homemade sangria, a typical Spanish drink. Don't miss it!

Authentic grenadine syrup is made from pomegranate juice sweetened with sugar and flavored with a few drops of lemon juice and orange-flower water (as opposed to corn syrup and red dye). Once you taste the real deal in, say, a Mary Pickford, you’ll never go back to the Shirley Temple cocktail mixer of your youth.

A refreshing and sparkling punch, perfect to welcome the New Year. You can also add fruit for an extra kick.

Preparing homemade orange liqueur is a tried-and-true way to use seasonal citrus over the years. Drinking it makes you feel like you're in sunny Italy, even if it's gray and cold outside the window. The homemade liqueur has an exceptionally intense and natural orange flavor, and is ideal for serving at the end of a meal, as an accompaniment to desserts or as an ingredient in other cocktails.

There’s nothing like savoring a classic Margarita cocktail on a warm, sunny day.

San Francisco mixologist Erick Castro taught us how to make this easy holiday punch. It’s a flexible recipe that works with almost any base spirit. Here we use genever, blended with orange curaçao, simple syrup, bitters, sparkling water, lemon juice, sparkling wine, and a touch of grated nutmeg. Garnish with pineapple slices and whole star anise before serving. You’ll need to make a batch of Rich Simple Syrup and freeze a large block of punch ice before you begin.

Substituting tangerine juice for lime in a margarita is a revelation. The taste is gentler, a little sweeter, and far more aromatic—the tangerine flavor acts as a shadow for the orange liqueur, amplifying its presence. If you can get a Meyer lemon to garnish with (it adds a final burst of citrus perfume), go for it. If not, a regular Eureka lemon will do just fine.