JCB LIVE Wine Styles: Home for the Holidays with Cocktails: Bloody Mary, Sparkling Cosmopolitan

To help you get through the holidays, we have your drink covered at all times of the day! Donnell shares three of her favorite cocktails with Jean-Charles to ease the cooking of Thanksgiving. Bloody Mary Recipe Ingredients: • 2 oz JCB gin • 4 oz Tomato juice • 1/2 oz Lemon juice • ¼ garlic clove, minced • 1 tbsp Prepared horseradish • 1 tbsp Balsamic vinegar • 1 tsp Worcestershire sauce • 3 dashes Celery salt • 3 dashes Black pepper • Tabasco sauce • Garnish: Celery • Garnish: Pickled okra • Garnish: Dill pickle • Garnish: Asparagus • Garnish: Olives • Garnish: Cherry tomatoes or carrot Steps: 1. Add all the ingredients to a highball glass, fill with ice and stir. 2. Garnish with any of the following: a celery stalk, pickled okra, a dill pickle spear, an asparagus spear, a skewer with 3 olives, a skewer with 3 cherry tomatoes or a carrot stick. Sparkling Cosmopolitan Recipe Ingredients: 1 1/2 ounces JCB Vodka 1/2 ounce triple sec 1/2 ounce cranberry juice 1/2 ounce fresh squeezed lime juice Dash simple syrup Ice 2 ounces chilled Jean-Louis Blanc de Blancs Directions: Combine vodka, triple sec, cranberry juice, lime juice, and ice in a cocktail shaker. Shake until very cold. Taste and if the mixture seems to tart, add a dash of simple syrup or agave. Pour into a chilled martini glass then top with sparkling wine Spiked Gingerbread Latte Recipe Ingredients: 2 ounces JCB Cognac 6 ounces coffee 1 ½ ounces gingerbread syrup 1 ounce Baileys Whipped cream Directions: Add the cognac and gingerbread syrup to a warm glass mug. Stir to combine. Pour the coffee into the mug. Top with Bailys and gently stir. Top with whipped cream. Add a sprinkle of ground ginger and a cinnamon stick for garnish. Gingerbread Syrup 1 Cup water 1 Cup sugar 2 tbsp molasses 1 inch peeled ginger 2 cinnamon sticks 1 tsp cloves 1 tsp vanilla Pinch of sea salt Mix all ingredients together in a sauce pan. Cook over medium heat until boiling. Reduce heat and simmer for 10-15 minutes. Remove from heat. Strain and cool before using.