Love is a Many Splendid Drink

Specialty Sippers for your Special Valentine

After dinner at your favorite hilltop restaurant, take your darling out on the back patiooverlook, close to the firepit to keep her warm, and present her with

Moonlight and Roses

.Muddle a few mint sprigs, a pinch of sugar, a dash of grenadine, and a drop of rose essencewater at the bottom of a medium rocks glass till the aroma rises. Then add crushed ice to thetop. Pour in 2 oz. Martin Miller’s gin and stir to your desired flavor.For those ladies who are hypnotized by violet,

Love’s Martini

is the botanical essenceyou’ve been waiting for. In a shaker, pour in 2 ½ oz Bombay Sapphire gin along with¼ oz of Marie Brizard’s Parfait Amour liqueur. Stir chill & strain into a chilled martiniglass and garnish with a twist of orange peel.As if the heat isn’t intense enough already, when you get home, throw a couple more logsin the fireplace and relax together on your

Purple Love Rug

by tossing some cubed orcracked ice to the top in a tall glass and build the following: 1 ¼ oz Belvedere vodka, ½oz Bols triple sec, fill with equal parts Schweppes club soda and Canada Dry ginger ale,and top lace with ¼ oz of Chambord. Garnish with some seedless grapes.In each other’s arms forever, the evening can never end without a

Long Kiss Goodnight

.Rim a chilled martini glass with shaved chocolate and shake & strain in the following:1oz Wyborowa vodka, ¾ oz Stolichnaya vanilla vodka, and ¾ oz Hiram Walker whitecreme de cacao. Garnish with a chocolate kiss.

The

Rose

is native to the Middle East, originally from Iran, and has been cultivated for at least 3000years. In Rome, the flowers were used in festivals, and the petals were consumed as food. Rosewater(essence) was prepared by Arab physician Avicenna (AD 980 – 1037). During the Middle Ages, therose was esteemed as a remedy for depression. The essential oil, called “Attar of Rose” is used inaromatherapy as a mild sedative.