17 Valentine's Day Cocktails You'll Want to Sip With Your Sweetheart

Our all-American riff on the classic Kir Royale swaps the usual blackcurrant liqueur for cranberry sauce, ready-made or homemade.

Looking for a light-on-the-booze cocktail that's colorful, refreshing, and just right for toasting with your sweetheart? Try our Amaro Spritz—all you need is Campari or Aperol, tonic water, and lemon slices for garnish.

This boozy take on the usual Champagne-and-cassis cocktail adds vodka and replaces the cassis with a sweet purée of violas or pansies that gives the drink a gorgeous violet hue.

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

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.

If you're gathering with your 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 a dash of bitters make a very good, colorful drink.

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 Royale 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. Made crimson by Campari and balanced by the spicy bitter-orange sweetness of the liqueur Créole Shrubb by Clement, the drink is regularly 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 of the color of love.

Cranberries are underappreciated when it comes to cocktials. 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 refresher for a Valentine's breakfast or brunch. Pass the French toast!

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

Gin is blended with Apérol and sweet and dry vermouths, then poured into a glass rinsed with anise-strong Absinthe to create this red-hued sip.

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 valentine sipping in a mild winter climate. Red wine is seriously undervalued as a cocktail ingredient; its fuller body (thanks to 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.