Wines for Cocktails
Alcoholic drink typically made from fermented fruits, with grapes being the most common.
Sparkling Wine
Often known as champagne, sparkling wine is a wine with significant levels of carbon dioxide in it, making it fizzy, usually either white or rose.
Cocktails using Sparkling Wine: French 75, Kir Royale, Mimosa, Peach Bellini, Amaro Spritz, Blood Orange Champagne +13 more
Vermouth
This is an aromatized, fortified wine, flavored with various botanicals like roots, barks, flowers, seeds, herbs, and spices, that is sometimes colored. Historically, there have been two main types of vermouth, sweet and dry, although manufacturers have created additional styles, including extra-dry white, sweet white, red, amber and rosé.
Notable brands: Martini, Dolin, Cocchi, Cinzano
Cocktails using Vermouth: En Rouge et Noir, Subtle Fire
Lillet
It’s a French aromatized wine, similar to vermouth, that’s made with grapes from Bordeaux and flavored with herbs, spices, and citrus, and fortified with citrus liqueur.
Swap with: Sweet Vermouth, Dry Vermouth
Cocktails using Lillet: Contemporary Corpse Reviver No. 2, Corpse Reviver No. 2, Vesper, Corpse Reviver Blue
Wine
Wine is typically made from fermented grapes, while different varieties of grapes produce different styles of wine.
Fortified Wine
Fortified wine is a wine to which a distilled spirit, usually brandy, has been added. In the course of some centuries, winemakers have developed many different styles of fortified wine, including port, sherry, madeira, Marsala, Commandaria wine, and the aromatised wine vermouth.
Cocktails using Fortified Wine: Brandy Sangaree, Añogo, Dickson's Bloody Mary, Pinky Negroni, Smoky Santa, Through the Woods +1 more