Holiday Bellini Cocktail Recipe • Novel Nightcaps

Name: Holiday Bellini
Prep time: 3 min
Cook time: 2 min
Total time: 5 min
Yield: 1
Ingredients: 3 fl oz Sparkling Wine; 1 fl oz Cranberry Ginger Syrup; 3 Cranberries; 1 Rosemary Sprig

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Cocktail History

The Holiday Bellini is a Christmas cocktail that was created by Erin Lynch, recipe developer and blogger at Platings & Pairings based in Portland, Oregon. A lot like the original Bellini, which mixes peach and sparkling wine, this variation also uses bubbly as the base but swaps out the peach for a more festive cranberry and ginger syrup.

Cocktail Ingredients

To make this cocktail, you’ll need the following ingredients:

Sparkling Wine: This is a carbonated wine made with white or red grapes. I used Villa Bellezza Winery Brillante.

Cranberry Ginger Syrup: This is a sweetener made with cranberries, ginger, white sugar, gum Arabic powder, and water. I made ours using my sous vide recipe.

Cranberries: This is a small red fruit. I used fresh cranberries.

Rosemary: This is an herb. I used fresh rosemary.

Bartending Tools

To make this cocktail, you’ll need the following bar tools:

Jigger: This is used to measure and pour ingredients. I used the Japanese jigger from the A Bar Above 14-Piece Silver Bar Set.

Bar Spoon: This is used to stir ingredients. I used the Barfly Stainless Steel Teardrop Bar Spoon.

Cocktail Pick: This is used to hold the garnish. I used one from the I-MART Stainless Steel Cocktail Pick Set.

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Tasting Notes

This cocktail has the following flavor profile:

• Appearance: Fizzy light pink color

• Aroma: Savory, woodsy rosemary and wine

• Taste: Bubbly wine with a slightly spicy ginger taste and notes of baking spices and cranberry

• Finish: Effervescent wine

Kendall’s Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Kendall’s Take: “I don’t know if a recipe really qualifies as a Bellini if there’s no peach, but this one identifies itself as such and is quite delicious nonetheless! It’s really just cranberry and ginger-flavored wine, which is hard to mess up, in my opinion. As simple as it is, I really loved the flavor profile of the Holiday Bellini and would probably pour myself one of these over the classic Bellini any day of the year.”