Pink cocktails for Valentine's Day

Red is the colour of love and what better way to say I love you than with an Angostura® Valentine’s Day cocktail recipe, perfect to accompany your romantic evening in with that special someone. Here are three easy to mix cocktails you can make at home for the month of love.

New England Fizz 

Glass: Champagne Flute 

Method: Add all ingredients into a shaker, except for the bubbles. Shake with ice and double strain into a chilled champagne flute. Top with champagne. Garnish with fresh or dried cranberries.

INGREDIENTS

• 30ml White Rum
• 15ml Maple Syrup
• 15ml Fresh lemon juice
• 2 bar spoons cranberry jam
• 2 dashes Angostura® aromatic bitters
• Top with Bubbles

Garnish: fresh or dried cranberries

Metropolitan 

Glass: Chilled Coupe

Method: Fill a cocktail shaker with ice cubes and combine all the ingredients. Shake well and strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Drape a pair of fresh cherries over the side of the glass.

Ingredients

• 45 ml Brandy
• 25 ml Sweet Vermouth
• 2-3 dashes of Angostura® aromatic bitters
• Dash of Simple Syrup

Garnish: Fresh Cherries

Hurricane

Glass: Highball

Method: Shake all ingredients except the Angostura aromatic bitters. Add ice to highball glass and strain mix over ice.

Float Angostura aromatic bitters on top to taste.

Ingredients

• 50 ml Rum
• 25 ml Orange juice
• 25 ml Pineapple juice
• 25 ml Passionfruit syrup
• 15 ml Lime juice
• 10 ml Grenadine
• Float Angostura® aromatic bitters

Garnish: orange slice, pineapple leaves and an edible flower

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Issued by: Paul ReynellPaddington Station PRpaul@paddingtonstationpr.co.za021 447 0564

On behalf of: Vanessa NelDGB (Pty) Ltdvanessan@dgb.co.za011 653 1000

About ANGOSTURA® aromatic bittersThe proud history of the House of ANGOSTURA® began almost two hundred years ago in 1824, when founder Dr. Johann Siegert first produced aromatic bitters in the city of Angostura in Venezuela. Recognised over the centuries by the granting of Royal Warrants of Appointment to the royal households of Great Britain, Prussia, Spain and Sweden, ANGOSTURA® aromatic bitters is the world’s market leader, an essential ingredient in premium cocktails, and a mainstay of cocktail culture.

The House of ANGOSTURA® also produce an international range of rums with five distinctive blends: Angostura 1824®, Angostura 1919®, Angostura® 7-Year-Old, Angostura® 5-Year-Old and Angostura® Reserva. The newest product in the portfolio is the multi award-winning Amaro di ANGOSTURA® - a blend of their finest bitters and rums, leveraging their unsurpassed heritage.