The start of the new year brings about a heap
of change, change in perception, in attitude and in your goals - in fact we
spend most of January trying to stick to our new-found prosperity and hope for
the future year. Most of the time our new year's resolution list is the length
of our arm and trying to condense all the things we hope to be and do in the
near year is almost impossible. We often do some serious self-reflection before
choosing our final ones, we seek advice from our friends and family, pick from
a hat or even download an app all to determine how we should take on the year
ahead and what is important to focus on throughout it.
However in the wake of last year’s negativity
and sometimes even its small moments of terror we have decided that this year
we need some serious mojo, some serious magic to guide us, to help us get
through and come out better than the year before; we decided to turn to the
stars in 2018 for advice and for guidance - drinking advice obviously. In fact,
there is no better way to forget the sorrows of the past and dodge than ones of
the future than with your favorite cocktail. Not just any cocktail either, one
especially for you and all the quirks and nuances that make up who you are.
Ever feel like a certain cocktail ‘just speaks to you’ and no matter where
you're jet setting off to, whether it on a luxuriousboat cruise or a drinks with the girls, your day may change but your
drink order does not. So, come the beginning of January you can spend your last
few moments of your holiday lazing about your favorite poolside and know that
your resolutions this year have been covered.
Aries
Brave, assertive and optimistic are the
characteristics of your closest Aries friends, the perfect partner in crime for
an Aries is the Mai Tai. The Mai Tai packs a massive punch, assertive to say
the least with just enough zing to pop some positivity right into you. Together
they radiate positivity and good vibes anywhere from the dance floor to your
favorite getaway destination.
Cocktail: Mai Tai
Ingredients: The Mai Tai is an alcoholic cocktail based on rum, Curaçao
liqueur, orgeat syrup, and lime juice.
Taurus
Reliable, patient and generous is your
favorite Taurus friend, they need a beverage that can keep up with them,
something loyal in getting you to feel the right things but patient enough to
know that timing is important. The Long Island Iced Tea is perfect for the
Taurus, with enough liquid in your glass to last a lifetime and just enough
kick in the end to get you where you need to be.
Cocktail: Long Island Iced
Tea
Ingredients: A Long Island Iced Tea is a type of alcoholic mixed drink
typically made with vodka, tequila, light rum, triple sec, gin, and a splash of
cola.
Gemini
The best of both worlds, breakfast and not
- the Bloody Mary is perfect for the
double-sided sign who wants a drink but also doesn't - but does.
Cocktail: Bloody Mary
Ingredients: A Bloody Mary is a cocktail containing vodka, tomato
juice, and combinations of other spices and flavorings including any of the
below; Worcestershire sauce, hot sauce, piri piri sauce, garlic and herb sauce,
beef consommé or bouillon, horseradish, celery, olives, salt, black pepper,
lemon juice, lime juice and/or celery salt.
Cancer
A cancer is family oriented, practical and
friendly with a natural sweet heart that ooze love all their loved ones - their
perfect drink? The daiquiri, is delicious, practical and inevitably hits the
sweetest of sweet spots - “what about for the kids?”, a cancer might ask - well
they do virgin daiquiris too.
Cocktail: Daiquiri
Ingredients: The Daiquiri is a family of cocktails whose main ingredients are rum,
citrus juice (typically lime juice), and sugar or other sweetener - spice
things up with your fruit of choice - the people pleaser of cocktails.
Leo
Your confidence is key to your success, you're
a classic, with high class and high expectations. Just like James Bond you pick
a beverage that is just as sophisticated and elite as you: The Martini shaken
not stirred please.
Cocktail: The Martini
Ingredients: The martini is a cocktail made with gin and vermouth and
garnished with an olive or a lemon twist.
Virgo
Analytical, ambitious and précises is your
fellow Virgo, but don't underestimate their quiet demeanor they are full of
surprises and enjoy a drink that highlights all their favorite traits and
values. Pairing them with a whiskey sour, which is to say the least
sophisticated and eager to complex with a complexity of ingredients that leave
even the most analytical Virgo scratching their heads.
Cocktail:
Whiskey Sours
Ingredients: The whiskey sour is a mixed drink containing whiskey
(often bourbon), lemon juice, sugar, and optionally, a dash of egg white. With
the egg white, it is sometimes called a Boston Sour
Libra
Libras are great signs, diplomatic, optimistic
and idealistic. They are the dreamers of dreams with a realistic edge. Their
perfect pairing companion no matter where they are being undoubtedly the
Mimosa, sophisticated, with enough bubbles t and class o boost any mood.
Cocktail: Mimosa
Ingredients: A Mimosa cocktail is composed of
one-part champagne and one-part chilled citrus juice, usually orange juice.
Scorpio
Passionate, powerful and dynamic are the
characteristics of any Scorpio and its drinking partner in crime is
unquestionably the overly seductive, overly electric and complex Coco Harvest.
These two will turn all heads in the room and ensure a night full of
interesting adventures, twists and turns.
Cocktail: Coco Harvest
Ingredients: Coconut Tequila, fresh lime juice, ginger beer, grapefruit juice, a
sprig of rosemary.
Sagittarius
Generous, candid and independent the
Sagittarius need a drinking partner that is quality strong and independent as
well as give them a bang for their buck - who better to pair them with then one
of the oldest mixed drinks the Margarita - with a generous helping of tequila
of course.
Cocktail: Margarita
Ingredients: A margarita is a cocktail consisting of tequila, triple sec, and lime
juice often served with salt on the rim of the glass
Capricorn
A Capricorn is loyal, straight forward and
ambitious everything the old fashion stands for. Reliable and simple, an uncomplicated drink
for a relatively uncomplicated sign.
Cocktail: Old Fashion
Ingredients: The Old Fashioned is a cocktail made by muddling sugar
with bitters, then adding alcohol, originally whiskey but now sometimes brandy,
and finally a twist of citrus (or orange) rind.
Aquarius
Witty, trendy and innovative is the
personality characteristics for this sassy sign and it's perfect drinking buddy
is the trendiest statement drink of them all. The infamous drink of our favorite
fashionista Miss Carrie Bradshaw. ‘The Cosmo’ goes better together than Carrie
and a pair of manolo blahniks - Yip, they are that good together.
Cocktail: The Cosmo
Ingredients: A cosmopolitan, or informally a Cosmo, is a cocktail made
with vodka, triple sec, cranberry juice, and freshly squeezed or sweetened lime
juice.
The perfect holiday cocktail, no matter where
you are you'll feel as if you have just landed in an ethereal world of your
own, just like the dreamy, alluring an innovative and free-spirited piece who
constantly lives on a plain of their own.
Cocktail: Aperol
Ingredients: The drink is prepared with prosecco or champagne, a dash of some
bitter liqueur Apero. The glass is then topped off with sparkling mineral water
and garnished with a slice of orange.