Drink of the Week: Red Wedding Cocktail

Happy holiday weekend! We’re celebrating the 4th (and the bonus day off work)—and the launch of our 2015 Summer Drinks Issue—with today’s Drink of the Week, the Red Wedding cocktail from Erick Castro of San Diego’s Polite Provisions (our Imbibe 75 2014 Cocktail Bar of the Year). Combining Lillet rosé, grenadine, bitters and bubbly it’s the perfect low-ABV sipper for your holiday weekend celebrations.

Our 2015 Summer Drinks Issue features some of the best low-alcohol cocktails of the season (also known as shims), so pick up a copy for those recipes, plus seasonal stories covering cold-brew coffee, alfresco wine dinners, canned craft beer, rhum agricole, sangria, DIY pineapple-coconut rum and lots more summery goodness.

Red Wedding Cocktail
2 oz. Lillet rosé
2 oz. sparkling wine
3/4 oz. grenadine
2 dashes Peychaud’s bitters
Club soda
Tools: shaker, strainer
Glass: highball
Garnish: lemon twist

Combine all ingredients, except the club soda, and shake with ice. Strain into an ice-filled glass, top with soda and garnish.

Erick Castro, Polite Provisions, San Diego