If guest editor Nigella Lawson's delicious Christmas Cup cocktail from this week's issue of Stylist left your tastebunds tingling, here are another five of her favourite, make-the-fizz-go-further cocktails that help you get the festive spirit going for less...
"This has always been what I give guests to drink before Christmas Day lunch"
Ingredients (makes 8-10 glasses)
1 x 75cl bottle of fizzy dry white wine, chilled
125ml Cointreau, Grand Marnier or Triple Sec, chilled
500ml cranberry juice, chilled
Method
Mix all ingredients together in a jug and pour into wine glasses or champagne flutes/saucers.
"This make the fizz fabulously fragrant!"
Ingredients (makes 8-10 glasses)
1 x 75cl bottle of fizzy dry white wine, chilled
125ml Elderflower liqueur
500ml bitter lemon
Fresh mint to garnish
Method
Mix all ingredients together in a jug and pour into wine glasses or champagne flutes/saucers.
"At this time of year, I feel, you can never be too red."
Ingredients (makes 8-10 glasses)
1 x 75cl bottle dry white fizzy wine, chilled
125ml Chambord, chilled
500ml pomegranate juice, chilled
Method
Mix all ingredients together in a jug and pour into wine glasses or champagne flutes/saucers.
"This is a wine-cup version, really, of a French Martini…"
Ingredients (makes 8-10 glasses)
1x75cl bottle dry fizzy white wine, chilled
125ml vodka, chilled
500ml pineapple juice, chilled
Spritz of lime
Method
Mix all ingredients together in a jug and pour into wine glasses or champagne flutes/saucers.
"I first had this cocktail at the River Café years ago, and have been making it at home ever since. The lime takes the sweetness out of the wine, but keeps its mellow flavour."
Ingredients (makes around six glasses)
1 x 75cl bottle of moscato d’asti or other sweet fizzy Muscat, chilled
The juice of 4- 5 limes (approx 250- 300ml), according to taste
Method
Pour the wine into a jug and then add the lime juice until you have reached a sweet-sharp balance you like.
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