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Wake-Up Cure

  • 3cl vodka
  • 2cl Cointreau
  • 1cl fresh lemon juice
  • 10cl tomato juice
  • champagne
  • Tabasco sauce
  • pinch celery salt
  • pinch superfine (caster) sugar

Pour all ingredients, except champagne, into a shaker with ice. Shake. Pour into a highball filled with ice to about three-quarters full. Top up with champagne. Stir. Garnish with a wedge of lime.

Waldorf

  • 3cl Pernod
  • 3cl Irish whiskey
  • 2 dashes Angostura bitters

Pour all ingredients into a shaker with ice. Shake. Strain into a cocktail glass.

Ward Eight

  • 6cl bourbon
  • 1.5cl fresh lemon juice
  • 1.5cl fresh orange juice
  • dash grenadine
  • dash gomme syrup

Pour all ingredients into a shaker with ice. Shake. Strain into a cocktail glass.

Wardman Park

  • 3cl brandy
  • 2cl Drambuie
  • 4cl dry sherry

Pour all ingredients into a shaker with ice. Shake. Strain into a cocktail glass. Garnish with a twist of lemon.

Watermelon and Basil Smash

  • 5cl silver tequila
  • 2cl limoncello
  • dash basil syrup
  • quarter slice watermelon
  • ginger beer

Pour all ingredients, except ginger beer, into a shaker with ice. Shake. Strain into a highball filled with ice. Top up with ginger beer.

Wet Dream

  • 2cl crème de framboise (raspberry liqueur)
  • 2cl crème de bananes
  • 3cl double cream
  • 6cl fresh orange juice

Pour all ingredients into a shaker with ice. Shake. Strain into a cocktail glass.

What's the Rush?

  • 3cl Irish whiskey
  • dash clear apple juice
  • 9cl lemonade

Pour all ingredients into a highball filled with ice. Stir. Top up with 7Up. Stir. Garnish with a slice of orange.

Whiskey Sour

  • 5cl rye whiskey
  • 2cl fresh lemon juice
  • 1 teaspoon eggwhite powder
  • dash gomme syrup

Pour all ingredients into a shaker with ice. Shake. Strain into a cocktail glass. Garnish with a maraschino cherry and a slice of orange if you like.

White Bull

  • 3cl tequila
  • 3cl coffee liqueur
  • 2cl double cream
  • 2cl milk

Pour all ingredients into a shaker with ice. Shake. Strain into a cocktail glass.

White Cadillac

  • 3cl Cointreau
  • 2cl Galliano
  • 3cl double cream

Place all ingredients in a blender with crushed ice. Blend. Pour into a cocktail glass.

White Knight

  • 2cl Scotch
  • 2cl coffee liqueur
  • 2cl Drambuie
  • 2cl double cream
  • 2cl milk

Pour all ingredients into a shaker with ice. Shake. Strain into a cocktail glass.

White Lady

  • 3cl gin
  • 3cl Cointreau
  • 3cl fresh lemon juice

Pour all ingredients into a shaker with ice. Shake. Strain into a cocktail glass.

White Out

  • 5cl vodka
  • 2cl white crème de cacao
  • 2cl double cream

Pour all ingredients into a shaker with ice. Shake. Strain into a cocktail glass. Garnish with a few flakes of grated white chocolate.

White Russian

  • 4cl vodka
  • 2cl Kahlua (coffee liqueur)
  • 2cl lightly whipped cream

Pour the vodka and the Kahlua into an old-fashioned glass filled with ice. Stir. Float the whipped cream over the top of the drink. Serve with a stirrer.

Wibble

  • 3cl Plymouth gin
  • 3cl Plymouth sloe gin
  • 3cl fresh grapefruit juice
  • 1cl crème de mûre (blackberry liqueur)
  • dash fresh lemon juice
  • dash gomme syrup

Pour all ingredients into a shaker with ice. Shake. Strain into a cocktail glass. Garnish with a twist of lemon.

Wiggle It All About

  • 5cl bourbon
  • 2cl Cointreau
  • 7cl guava juice
  • 7cl pineapple juice
  • dash grenadine

Pour all ingredients into a shaker with ice. Shake. Strain into a highball filled with ice. Garnish with a wedge of pineapple and a maraschino cherry.

Wimbledon Cocktail

Inspired by the strawberries and cream served during the Wimbledon tennis season.

  • 2cl crème de framboise (raspberry liqueur)
  • 5 to 6 strawberries, cut in half
  • 2cl double cream
  • 2cl white rum
  • champagne

Blend the strawberries and crème de framboise and place in the refrigerator for a couple of hours. Pour the berry mixture to a quarter of a champagne flute. Top up with champagne to three-quarters full. Stir. Mix the cream and rum in a mixing glass and float it over the back of a barspoon on top of the champagne. Garnish with a strawberry and a small sprig of mint.

Wonderland

  • 5cl white rum
  • 1.5cl cherry brandy
  • 1cl fresh lemon juice
  • dash peach schnapps
  • handful blackberries

Pour all ingredients into a shaker with ice. Shake vigorously to break down the blackberries. Strain into a cocktail glass. Garnish with two blackberries on a cocktail stick, with a small sprig of mint in the center. Set this across the glass.

Woo Woo

  • 3cl vodka
  • 2cl peach schnapps
  • 5cl cranberry juice

Pour all ingredients into a shaker with ice. Shake. Strain into an old-fashioned glass filled with ice. Garnish with a wedge of lime dropped in the drink.