A visual starting point for globally known cocktails, from the Martini and Margarita to the Negroni and Old Fashioned.

The drinks almost everyone recognizes.

World's Most Famous Cocktails

Prosecco's light, fruity effervescence made the Aperol Spritz one of the world's most popular cocktails — and it works in every spritz variation.

Italian sparkling wine in the Aperol Spritz and beyond.

Cocktails with Prosecco

Aperol's lower proof and sweeter bitter profile made the Aperol Spritz one of the world's best-selling cocktails — and it works well beyond the Spritz.

Lighter than Campari, built for spritzes.

Cocktails with Aperol

The Aperol Spritz is one of the great gateway cocktails. These aperitivo-style and low-ABV drinks are the natural next step — light, bitter-tinged, and easy to love.

You liked the Spritz. Here's where to go next.

After the Aperol Spritz

Old Fashioneds, highballs, and Negronis built directly over ice — cocktails where the glass is the mixing vessel.

Assembled in the glass, no shaker needed.

Built Cocktails

The cocktails guests recognize, request, and reliably enjoy — nothing too obscure, nothing too complicated for a busy host.

Crowd-pleasing drinks that scale well.

Cocktail Party Essentials

Negronis, Boulevardiers, and spirit-forward cocktails that translate well to large-format preparation — mix the batch, refrigerate, pour.

Scale up for a crowd without the fuss.

Easy Batch Cocktails

Minimal equipment, maximum result — cocktails that work with whatever you have behind a home bar.

Just a glass and something to stir with.

No-Special-Tools Cocktails

St-Germain, crème de violette, and rose water — cocktails where a floral note gives everything a quiet, elegant lift.

Elderflower, lavender, and delicate aromatics.

Floral Cocktails

French 75s, Kir Royales, and the other champagne cocktails that transform a glass of sparkling wine into something more considered.

Sparkling wine for every toast.

Champagne Celebration Cocktails

Champagne cocktails, sparkling spritzes, and the fizzy drinks built for the transition from one year to the next.

Bubbles for midnight and the morning after.

Sparkling New Year's Cocktails

Champagne cocktails, sparkling spritzes, and the elegant builds that justify a late night and a good outfit.

Sparkling, festive, and ready for midnight.

New Year's Eve Cocktails

Mimosas, Bellinis, and floral gin drinks for a late-morning celebration — cocktails that match Easter's pastel aesthetic.

Spring fruit, light spritzes, and brunch classics.

Easter Brunch Cocktails

A focused Cocktail Gallery shelf for holiday brunch essentials, automatically refreshed from the cocktail inventory as recipes, ingredients, bars, and eras change.

Holiday Brunch Essentials worth exploring.

Holiday Brunch Essentials

Low-ABV, citrus-forward, and good with eggs — the cocktail category built for late mornings and slow Sundays.

Mimosas, Bloody Marys, and the rest of the morning menu.

Brunch Cocktails

From Aperol's soft blush to blood orange negronis and citrus-bright sours, these cocktails wear their warmth visibly.

Warm, sun-soaked, and bittersweet.

Orange Cocktails

Blue Curaçao's electric azure, Campari's deep red, crème de violette's purple — cocktails where the ingredient doing the coloring is also doing real flavor work.

Drinks that earn their colors honestly.

Colorful Cocktails

Highball glasses, fresh citrus, soda water, and light refreshment that makes a warm evening worth lingering over.

Long, cold, and made for the outdoors.

Summer Patio Drinks

Punches, mulled wines, and large-format cocktails that scale for a crowd — the holiday bar menu curated in one shelf.

Batch-friendly drinks for festive gatherings.

Holiday Party Cocktails

A focused Cocktail Gallery shelf for holiday crowd-pleasing cocktails, automatically refreshed from the cocktail inventory as recipes, ingredients, bars, and eras change.

Holiday Crowd-Pleasing worth exploring.

Holiday Crowd-Pleasing Cocktails

Champagne, prosecco, soda water, and ginger beer — cocktails where carbonation lifts the whole drink.

Bubbles as an ingredient, not an afterthought.

Sparkling Cocktails

The Gin Fizz adds soda for lift; the Flip adds whole egg for richness — two distinct traditions that both reward careful attention.

Carbonated with soda or enriched with egg.

Fizzes & Flips

The Aperol Spritz defined a generation's drinking habits. These are its neighbors — low-ABV, sparkling, and good at any hour.

Aperol, Campari, and sparkling wine over ice.

Spritz Cocktails

Spritzes, light highballs, and the cocktails that work when you have nowhere to be and no reason to rush.

Easy-drinking, leisurely, and low stakes.

Sunday Afternoon Cocktails

Carbonation adds texture, lifts aromatics, and extends a cocktail — the highball is the most obvious example, but the format goes much further.

Bubbles as texture, lift, and length.

Carbonated Cocktails

Large-format punches, easy-build highballs, and the cocktails that work when you're serving a dozen people from a cooler.

Crowd-friendly drinks for outdoor entertaining.

Backyard Gathering Cocktails

Simple cocktails with three or fewer listed ingredients, ideal for fast decisions and low-friction mixing.

Short builds with a clear payoff.

Easy 3-Ingredient Cocktails

Spritzes, highballs, and citrus-driven long drinks — light cocktails built for outdoor drinking above the city.

Tall, cold, and good in the open air.

Rooftop Drinks

Sparkling, low-ABV, and aperitif-style drinks that open a holiday meal without overwhelming the palate before dinner arrives.

Light seasonal openers for holiday gatherings.

Festive Aperitif Cocktails

Expressing orange peel over a Martini, Old Fashioned, or Negroni releases oils that change the first sip — this shelf is built around that gesture.

The expressed peel that transforms a cocktail.

Orange Peel Aromatics

Cosmopolitans, spritzes, and floral gin cocktails — the category of drinks that prioritizes flavor and color, usually successfully.

Colorful, fun, and generally delicious.

Girls' Night Cocktails

bitter

sparkling

Aperol

Prosecco

Soda Water

Make a Aperol Spritz with Cocktail Gallery's visual recipe guide.

Aperol Spritz Cocktail Recipe

Aperol Spritz

A focused Cocktail Gallery shelf for strongest cocktails, automatically refreshed from the cocktail inventory as recipes, ingredients, bars, and eras change.

Strongest worth exploring.

Strongest Cocktails

Barrel-proof bourbon and the cocktails built to showcase it — drinks that demand attention and reward it.

Full-strength spirits, minimal dilution.

High Proof Cocktails

Stirred, measured, and intentional — the category where the base spirit does most of the work and nothing is there to hide it.

High-proof, minimal dilution, built for sipping.

Spirit-Forward Cocktails

The Old Fashioned, the Manhattan, the Sazerac — the stirred classics that belong in a low-lit room with good music.

Dark rooms, good drinks, something in the background.

Jazz Bar Cocktails

Sidecars, Vespers, and other polished drinks that belong in a velvet booth with a view of the floor.

The classics of a long evening out.

Casino Lounge Cocktails

The Negroni, the Boulevardier, and spirit-forward classics that reward a small investment in quality ingredients.

Simple, strong, and surprisingly good.

Bachelor Pad Cocktails

Coffee liqueur appears in the Espresso Martini, the Black Russian, and the White Russian — and in newer craft applications that take the category seriously.

Kahlúa, Mr. Black, and the coffee-spirit tradition.

Cocktails with Coffee Liqueur

The Espresso Martini's 2020s resurgence opened a whole category. These are the coffee-forward cocktails that rode and preceded that wave.

Coffee cocktails for a generation that drinks both.

The Espresso Martini Era

Coffee and spirits have a natural affinity — bold, slightly bitter, and better cold. The Espresso Martini made it mainstream, but the category goes much further.

Espresso Martinis, Black Russians, and caffeinated builds.

Coffee & Espresso Cocktails

A focused Cocktail Gallery shelf for espresso dark cocktails, automatically refreshed from the cocktail inventory as recipes, ingredients, bars, and eras change.

Espresso Dark worth exploring.

Espresso Dark Cocktails

A focused Cocktail Gallery shelf for moody speakeasy cocktails, automatically refreshed from the cocktail inventory as recipes, ingredients, bars, and eras change.

Moody Speakeasy worth exploring.

Moody Speakeasy Cocktails

Old Fashioneds, Sidecars, and the other polished drinks that belong in a velvet-booth bar where the cocktail list is one page long.

Dark rooms, stirred classics, no sign on the door.

Speakeasy Vibes

The craft cocktail movement excavated forgotten Prohibition-era recipes — the Bee's Knees, the Corpse Reviver, and the Sidecar all came back this way.

Prohibition-era recipes revived with better ingredients.

Speakeasy Revival Cocktails

Bourbon brings caramel, vanilla, and warm oak to cocktails. From the Old Fashioned and Mint Julep to the Whiskey Sour and Paper Plane.

American whiskey's most versatile spirit.

Cocktails with Bourbon

Death & Co, PDT, Milk & Honey, The Dead Rabbit, and their contemporaries didn't just serve great cocktails — they set the direction of modern bartending.

Drinks from the bars that changed everything.

Modern Bar Canon

Sasha Petraske, Dale DeGroff, and the movement they helped launch turned bartending into a craft. These are the drinks that document that shift.

The bartenders and bars that changed everything.

The Rise of Craft Cocktails

The Paper Plane, the Naked and Famous, the Gold Rush — contemporary cocktails that have already earned a permanent place on the menu.

Modern recipes that already feel essential.

Contemporary Craft Classics

A focused Cocktail Gallery shelf for rich & decadent, automatically refreshed from the cocktail inventory as recipes, ingredients, bars, and eras change.

Rich & Decadent worth exploring.

Rich & Decadent

Mulled wine, eggnog, and the full range of winter-spiced cocktails that belong on a holiday table.

Spiced, warming, and full of the season.

Christmas Cocktails

The Mint Julep's bouquet of mint, the tiki drink's pineapple and umbrella, the cocktail cherry — garnishes that define the drink as much as its flavor.

Where the garnish is part of the drink's identity.

Garnish-Forward Cocktails

A focused Cocktail Gallery shelf for late night cocktails, automatically refreshed from the cocktail inventory as recipes, ingredients, bars, and eras change.

Late Night worth exploring.

Late Night Cocktails

Strong, uncompromising, and calibrated for 2am — the cocktails that hold up to an evening's worth of buildup.

The drinks you order when the night goes late.

Midnight Cocktails

A focused Cocktail Gallery shelf for cozy holiday cocktails, automatically refreshed from the cocktail inventory as recipes, ingredients, bars, and eras change.

Cozy Holiday worth exploring.

Cozy Holiday Cocktails

Coupes, Martini glasses, flutes — cocktails that make a deliberate impression. Stirred or shaken, always with some craft.

Elegant drinks made with intention.

Date Night Cocktails

Dark rum, cold brew, black walnut, smoky mezcal — cocktails that lean into depth, darkness, and contemplative richness.

Deep colors, heavy spirits, serious drinks.

Dark & Moody Cocktails

The kind of drinks you make when you're not going anywhere — full-proof, unhurried, and worth taking your time over.

Cozy, indulgent drinks for staying in.

Rainy Day Cocktails

A focused Cocktail Gallery shelf for fireside winter cocktails, automatically refreshed from the cocktail inventory as recipes, ingredients, bars, and eras change.

Fireside Winter worth exploring.

Fireside Winter Cocktails

Hot Toddies, Irish Coffees, and the heavy warming cocktails that belong near a fire and a good book.

Warming, rich drinks for cold evenings.

Fireside Cocktails

Orange bitters transform a Martini, improve an Old Fashioned, and show up throughout the classic canon — a small addition with a significant effect.

The aromatic modifier in more cocktails than you'd expect.

Cocktails with Orange Bitters

Old Fashioneds, Manhattans, and aged rum cocktails — the warm amber of barrel-aged spirits in a glass.

Aged spirits, honey, and warm amber tones.

Golden Amber Cocktails

Hot Toddies, mulled wines, Irish Coffees, and the whiskey-forward cocktails that make cold nights better.

Brown spirits, warm spice, and cold-weather warmth.

Winter Cocktail Staples

Irish Coffees, Hot Toddies, and the full range of warming cocktails that justify staying in on a cold night.

Hot drinks, brown spirits, and cold-weather comfort.

Winter Warmers

Hot Buttered Rum, Glühwein, and the other cocktails that make sense after a long cold day on the mountain.

Hot drinks and warming spirits for after the mountain.

Apres-Ski Cocktails

A focused Cocktail Gallery shelf for winter holiday cocktails, automatically refreshed from the cocktail inventory as recipes, ingredients, bars, and eras change.

Dan L

Aperol Spritz

Revolver

Kentucky Mule

Moscow Mule

Sidecar

Mai Tai

Bahama Mama

Bee’s Knees

Mojito

Aviation

Mystic Bounce

Coffee Swizzle