The celebration of New Year and Christmas is rarely complete without alcoholic beverages. Despite the generally accepted canon in the form of champagne and other sparkling wines, you can always choose another interesting option that is more suitable for your menu.
The most famous European "winter" drink is, of course, mulled wine. Warmed red wine with spices, fruits or honey goes well with dishes such as fried poultry, meat salads, hot cakes and pies. In addition, mulled wine can always be poured into a thermos and taken with you when you go out to celebrate on a snowy street - it will warm you, protect you from colds and viral diseases and add a taste of the holiday.
For children, you can make non-alcoholic mulled wine based on cherry and orange juices, warmed with honey, pieces of tangerines, oranges and apples, cinnamon and ginger. Such a drink, similar to the "adult" version, will appeal to lovers of bright tasty drinks and will be useful for health.
The usual usual champagne can "sparkle" if it is used as a base for various easy-to-prepare cocktails. For example, there is a great champagne cocktail with peach and ginger. To do this, you just need to cut the ginger into small pieces, and the peach into slices, arrange them in glasses and, at the moment of opening the champagne, pour the champagne and let it brew for just a couple of minutes. Peach will immediately give natural sweetness, and ginger will give astringency.
Heavy drinks - cognac, vodka, whiskey - it is better not to drink on New Year's Eve, so as not to spoil your awakening. In addition, they are mostly digestifs, that is, drinks that are supposed to be drunk after meals, and in the New Year, the use of aperitifs prevails - drinks that are drunk before meals, in order to impart appetite.
