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Top 5 Holiday Cocktails

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The weather outside is frightful, so why not curl up by the fire with a nice holiday cocktail? David Hyde talks to veteran bartender Kristen Naranjo about her favorite holiday cocktails.

Trinidad Sour

1 ounce Angostura bitters

1 ounce orgeat

3/4 ounce lemon juice

1/2 ounce Rittenhouse rye

Author: Giuseppe Gonzalez, New York City, 2009.

Christmas In Montreal

2 ounces rye

1/4 ounce pimento dram

1/2 ounce Fernet Branca

1/4 ounce simple syrup

1 dash Angostura

Author: Rene Rodriguez, Vito's, Seattle, 2012.

Ti' Punch

2 ounces rhum agricole

1/4 ounce cane syrup

squeeze of lime

Classic tiki cocktail.

Marrakesh Express

1 1/2 ounces vodka

1/2 ounce simple syrup

1/4 ounce lemon juice

1 barspoon pomegranate molasses

2 dashes Scrappy's cardamom bitters

top with champagne

Author: Kristen Naranjo, The Hideout, Seattle, 2010.

Seelbach

7 dashes Angostura bitters

7 dashes Peychaud's bitters

1 ounce bourbon

1/2 ounce Cointreau

top with champagne

lemon coil twist

Classic cocktail from Lousiville, Ky., 1917.

Kristen Naranjo makes these drinks and many others at Vito's and The Hideout.

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