15 Valentine's Day Cocktails to Sip with Your Sweetheart

The aromatic skins of impossibly cute kumquats transform dry Champagne into a sunny walk in a citrus grove. Just close your eyes and dream about your next trip.

In this suave interpretation of a Cosmopolitan, switch in pomegranate juice for the usual cranberry. Fresh lime juice wakes the shaken drink while orange liqueur smooths the tart edges.

If you're gathering with your pod of loved ones, this rosy Lillet, gin, and Apérol punch is just the thing to serve. We love that it's bright with botanicals.

Whisky, cranberry sauce, vermouth, and dash of bitters make a bloody good drink (no, we are not swearing— it's simply red, like our cheeks).

Pickled baby beets bleed beautifully into clear, cold gin and add a sophisticated nibble to your last sip.

The addition of vermouth and Angostura steers a classic Kir Royal into Manhattan territory—the meeting of two great cocktails, like two well-suited humans. Cassis and amber bitters turn it appropriately pink.

This three-ingredient cocktail is just as the name suggests. It's an upgrade on the classic Campari-orange juice combo and is made crimson by Campari and balanced by the spicy bitter-orange sweetness of the liqueur Créole Shrubb by Clement, blended on the sunny Caribbean isle of Martinique.

Can you have too many Champagne cocktail recipes in your repertoire?  No, you cannot. This sparkler calls on Chambord for color and character—the French blackberry liqueur tints your drink cerise and reminds you that summer will return.

Cranberries are underappreciated as a cocktail influencer. Their tannins and astringency add body to drinks, and then there is that color. Combining grapefruit with this native American favorite makes for a brilliant interpretation of the peerless (yet pale) tequila drink.

Prosecco and Apérol cut with blood orange juice and seltzer is a gorgeously low ABV (alcohol by volume) refresher for a Valentine's breakfast or brunch. Pass the French toast!

Antioxidant-rich pomegranate juice with freshly squeezed tangerines and their intense zest are shaken up with good vodka and bitters, making this cocktail positively healthful.

Gin is blended with Apérol, sweet (red) and dry vermouths, and poured into a glass rinsed with anise-strong Absinthe.

Freezing the martini glasses adds a sense of occasion to the condensation that will gather on your glasses of your ruby drink as you sip.

Here's a drink for the lucky Valentines sipping in a mild winter climate. Red wine is seriously undervalued as a cocktail ingredient; its fuller body (from grape-skin tannins) lends itself well to gentle blending. A dash of a bittersweet apéritif like Apérol puts a wiggle in its hips, and a spritz of seltzer lightens the alcohol load.