New Year's Eve Cocktails

Ketel Crumble

We hope you have celebrated Christmas well and are hopefully planning your New Year's Eve celebrations. We thought some cocktail recipes could be very helpful this time of year, so we asked our friend Deano Moncrieffe (Ketel One Brand Ambassador) to share some of his fabulous creations with our readers.

Ketel Crumble

Ingredients:

37.5ml Ketel One Vodka

20ml Freshly Squeezed Lemon Juice

25ml Sugar Syrup

75ml Pressed Apple Juice

Dash of Vanilla Extract

Pinch of ground Cinnamon

Method: Shake all ingredients in a cocktail shaker filled with ice and strain into a goblet filled with cubed ice.

Garnish: apple slice and a sprinkle of ground cinnamon

Units: 1.5

Espresso Martini

Espresso Martini

Ingredients:

50ml Ketel One

37.5ml hot espresso coffee

12.5ml sugar syrup

7ml Grind coffee liqueur (or Kahlua coffee liqueur)

Garnish: with 3 coffee beans

Method: Shake all ingredients with ice and fine strain into chilled glass.

Units: 2.2

Glass: martini

Chocolate Chilli Mule

Chocolate Chilli Mule

Ingredients:

37.5ml Ketel One Vodka

10ml white chocolate liqueur or crème de cacao (white)

Ginger ale

Quarter of a very small red chilli (deseeded and chopped in small pieces)

Lime wedge

Method: Build in the order above into a high ball glass. After you have topped up with ginger ale squeeze a lime wedge and drop into glass, then sprinkle the small pieces of red chilli on the top. Gently stir and serve.

Glass: high ball

Units 1.8

A Unique Mixology Set

One of the world's leading brands of luxury travel bags, Tumi, has gone a step further and announced the launch of Mixology Set as a part of their holiday collection.

The stupendous set was co-designed by Diageo and Ketel One Vodka. It consists of a range of bar accessories - from martini glasses to shakers, from zester to a wooden cutting board. There is also an ince bucket and a built-in bottle space, and all this masked in an elegant suitcase. Who doesn't want to have this!

Skyfall - The Official Bond Cocktail at The Savoy

A special version of James Bond’s infamously favourite cocktail, specifically crafted for the Royal World Premiere of SKYFALL 007, is now available at The Savoy, London.

The creator, Erik Lorincz, who was nominated as the Global World Class Bartender of the Year in 2010, was asked by the makers of Bond to create his own version of a Vesper Martini for the premiere after being hired as a cocktail consultant on SKYFALL. Using unbeatable ingredients, Erik finessed his SKYFALL Martini – shaken, not stirred, of course. The drink was served at the premiere attended by an all-star guest list, including Daniel Craig, Rachael Weiss, Penelope Cruz, Javier Bardem, David Walliams and Victoria Pendleton to name but a few.

Take aim and channel your inner 007 with the SKYFALL Cocktail. The drink is made using the ultra-premium London dry gin, Tanqueray No. TEN®, said to have been created for the perfect Martini, paired with the sophisticated Ketel One Vodka®. Tanqueray No. TEN is the only gin to be distilled using whole citrus fruit and botanicals with the resulting unique flavour earning it a place in the World Spirit Hall of Fame. This coupled with the crisp taste of Ketel One Vodka, inspired by over 300 years of the Nolet Family’s distilling expertise, gives the SKYFALL Cocktail an unbeatable taste, earning it a place in the hands of the Queen’s most deadly spy.

Enjoy its delectable flavour at The Savoy before heading for your own silver screen viewing.