Celebration of New year and Christmas seldom does without alcoholic beverages. Despite the standard canon in the form of champagne and other sparkling wines, it is always possible to choose other interesting option which was more suitable your menu.
The most known European "winter" drink is, of course, mulled wine. The warmed-up red wine with spices, fruit or honey perfectly approaches such dishes as a fried bird, meat salads, hot cakes and pies. Besides, mulled wine can always be poured in a thermos and to take, coming to celebrate to the snow street – he will warm, will save from cold and viral diseases and will add taste of a holiday.
For children it is possible to do nonalcoholic mulled wine on the basis of the cherry and orange juice warmed with honey, pieces of tangerines, oranges and apples, cinnamon and ginger. Such drink similar to "adult" option will be pleasant to fans of bright tasty drinks and will be useful to health.
Usual habitual champagne can "play" if to use it as a basis under various lungs in preparation cocktails. For example, there is a fine recipe of cocktail from champagne with addition of a peach and ginger. For this purpose it is necessary to cut only ginger small pieces, and a peach on segments, to spread out them on glasses and at the time of opening of champagne to pour champagne and to allow it to infuse all a couple of minutes. The peach at once will give natural sweet, and ginger tartness.
Heavy drinks – – it is better not to drink cognac, vodka, whisky on New Year's Eve not to spoil to themselves awakening. Besides they are mostly digestives, that is drinks which need to be drunk after a meal, and in New year the use of aperitifs – drinks which are drunk to food, for the purpose of giving of appetite prevails.