Romantic cocktails to turn any day into Valentine’s Day

It doesn’t have to be Valentine’s Day to celebrate your love with a romantic cocktail or two. We’re stoking the fire this week with a recipe from, funnily enough, one of our favorite non-alcoholic beverage producers. Here, DRY Botanical Bubbly shows us their devilishly delicious adult beverage side…and we like it!

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What is DRY Sparkling?

If you don’t know DRY Sparkling, this drink will make a great introduction to this maker of unsweetened sparkling beverages. (We hesitate to call them “soda.”) The lineup of sophisticated flavors make a perfect non-alcoholic wine alternative and can even be paired with meals as you would bottles of fine wine.

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They’re made by DRY Soda Company, an American brand with two soda lines. There’s Dry Sparkling, featured in this cocktail. And they also have a second line of Dry Zero Sugar drinks, made without artificial sweeteners or added color. Their focus is on creating soda alternatives with restrained, sophisticated flavors adults can enjoy in place of wine, beer or cocktails.

Of course, for those of us who like our drinks with a little kick, the company offers recipes for sinful things, like their Valentine’s Day drink, the Love Potion #214.

And this vodka cocktail recipe really puts you in the driver’s seat, because you get to choose your DRY Sparkling flavor. Blended with Lillet, Prosecco and a touch of your favorite vodka, any of the eight soda flavors will work.

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We recommend choosing one of the flavors with aphrodisiac aromas like vanilla, ginger or lavender. But really, this is about making the romantic cocktail that works for you and your lover. Just be sure not to skimp on the dark chocolate rim!

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DRY Sparkling Love Potion #214

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A cocktail with customizable ingredients for a romantic night in.

Course aperitif, cocktails

Cuisine American

Dish Type Cocktail

Cooking Style Mixology

Seasonal Valentine's Day

Ingredient DRY Sparkling

Prep Time 5 minutes mins

Servings 2 cocktails

Author DRY Sparkling

Ingredients

• 4 oz chilled DRY Sparkling, your favorite flavor
• 8 oz prosecco champagne or sparkling wine
• 1 oz Lillet
• 1 oz vodka
• 4 dashes of bitters
• 3-4 oz your favorite dark or milk chocolate for the rim
• mint for garnish optional

Instructions

• Melt a 3-4 oz. of milk or dark chocolate. Dip two champagne flutes into the melted chocolate.
• Pour the Lillet, vodka and bitters into the champagne flute.
• Top off with prosecco and DRY Sparkling.
• Garnish with mint.

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Amy Reiley

Eat Something Sexy's Creator & Editor-in-Chief Amy Reiley is the award-winning author of five aphrodisiac cookbooks. She has her Master of Arts in Gastronomy, awarded by Le Cordon Bleu and The University of Adelaide.

Amy is considered a leading authority on aphrodisiacs and her work in the field of aphrodisiac food history and health science is quoted in publications including National Geographic, The New York Times, Epicurious, Wine Enthusiast, Health and Playboy magazines. She speaks internationally on aphrodisiacs and has brought her knowledge of aphrodisiac foods to national television shows including The Today Show and CBS Early Show. She is a frequent guest on relationship and lifestyle radio and podcast shows and has been interviewed by BBC and NPR radio, Cosmopolitan radio and popular podcasts including My Dad Wrote a Porno.

Amy is also a freelance food, wine and health researcher and writer as well as a wine competition judge. Her work has appeared in publications ranging from Variety to The Daily Meal. She is an MSN content provider. And she is also a former wine editor for Gayot.com and wine & spirits editor of Las Vegas magazine.

Fun fact: Amy was the creator of the first ever comprehensive food and wine apps, Amy Reiley's Pocket Gourmet and Amy Reiley's Pocket Vineyard for Palm.

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