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Toby's cocktail corner.

If you enjoy fruit based cocktails, then you are going to love the following concoctions selected especially by Toby.

Remember always drink responsibly and never drink and drive.

Tangerine.

Ingredients:
1 Shot De Kuyper Triple Sec
1 Shot Disaronno Amaretto
3 Shots Orange Juice
0.5 Shot De Kuyper Grenadine

Method:
Shake the ingredients together with ice and strain into a cocktail glass half filled with cubed ice.
Garnish with orange peel (or slice) if desired.
Tasting notes: A fruity blend of oranges and pomegranates, with subtle hints of marzipan.

Tangerine Cocktail.

Ingredients:
1/2 oz vodka
1/2 oz Cointreau orange liqueur
1/2 oz Mandarine Napoleon orange liqueur
1/2 oz amaretto almond liqueur
1 oz mandarin juice
1 tsp grenadine syrup

Method:
Shake and strain into a champagne saucer filled with crushed ice.
Garnish with a slice of orange and a cherry, add a short straw, and serve.

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Orange Champagne Cocktail.

Ingredients:
1/4 cup crème de cassis
1 1/2 cups strained fresh blood orange juice (from about 6 oranges)
1 750ml bottle chilled brut Champagne or dry sparkling wine
8 blood orange slices (for garnish,optional)

Method:
Spoon 1 1/2 teaspoons crème de cassis into each of 8 Champagne flutes or other glasses.
Add 3 tablespoons juice to each glass.
Fill each glass with Champagne, then stir gently.
Garnish cocktails with slices of blood orange, if desired.

Orange Martini.

Ingredients:
2 oz gin or vodka
1/2 oz triple sec
1/2 oz dry vermouth
dash of orange bitters
orange twist for garnish
Method:
Pour the ingredients into a cocktail shaker half-filled with cracked ice.
Shake well.
Strain into a chilled cocktail glass.
Garnish with the orange twist.