Wine cocktail

A wine cocktail is a mixed drink, similar to a true cocktail. It is made predominantly with wine (including Champagne and Prosecco), into which distilled alcohol or other drink mixer is combined. A spritz is a drink that has Prosecco added to it.

The distinction between a wine cocktail and a cocktail with wine is the relative amounts of the various alcohols. In a wine cocktail, the wine product is the primary alcohol by volume compared to the distilled alcohol or mixer.

List of wine cocktails

See also: List of cocktails § Wines

Wine variation cocktails

The following drinks are not technically cocktails unless wine is secondary by volume to a distilled beverage, since wine is a fermented beverage not a distilled one.

• Agua de Valencia
• Black Velvet
• Death in the Afternoon
• Flirtini
• Prince of Wales
• Sangria
• Mulled wine (Glögg)
• Wine cooler
• One-Balled Dictator — 5 parts German Liebfraumilch, 1 part French Champagne, briefly but violently shaken, then poured into a rocks glass containing one candy cinnamon ball. This produces a very white drink, to which much symbolism was applied by British WWII veterans as related in the lyrics of a crude song "Hitler Has Only Got One Ball"

Sparkling wine cocktails

• Bellini
  IBA
• Hugo

Champagne cocktails

See also: Champagne Cocktail

• Buck's Fizz
  IBA
• Mimosa
  IBA
• Kir Royal
  IBA
• Ruby Dutchess
• Chicago Cocktail
• French 75
  IBA
• Golden Doublet
• Savoy Affair

Red wine cocktails

• Kalimotxo or Calimocho or Rioja Libre
• Tinto de Verano
• Zurracapote
• Borgoña

Port cocktails

• Cheeky Vimto

White wine cocktails

• Kir
  IBA
• Spritzer
• Rocky Mountain Railway — 1 part tomato juice, 1 part lemon soft drink, 1 part white wine

See also

• List of cocktails
• Drinkware
• Port wine

External links

• "Champagne Cocktail Recipes" – over 70 recipes including photos and descriptions.