Curl Up With These Hot Cocktails and Cozy Throws

Rosewood London’s exquisitely Edwardian terrace—just steps from Covent Garden—becomes a winter wonderland at the end of the year. The High Holborn "ultra-luxury" hotel celebrated gin last year by creating its Hot Mulled Sloe, a fruity combination of sloe gin and cloudy apple juice, garnished with clove-studded orange wheels and served in a traditional teapot. The wild berries in Sipsmith, their spirit of choice, impart it with a ripe red fruitiness and velvety mouthfeel. Serve up a High-Holborn-inspired cider of your own by tracking down a bottle on this side of the Atlantic.

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Third-generation bartender Giuseppe Gonzalez reports that his Lower East Side cocktail pub's floral-yet-earthy signature drink is its bestseller all year long, and it’s easy to see why. It’s a simple, elegant recipe: Combine 1.25 ounces Hendrick’s or Ford’s Gin with hot black tea—he likes a combination of English Breakfast and Earl Grey, "oversteeped and then left overnight," sweetened with 1 part simple syrup to 3 parts tea ("to the point where it’s a little oversweet, since you’re going to be cutting it with the gin")—then serve in a coffee glass with a float of cold, frothy cream. "It has a hot-cold thing [thanks to the cream] that’s very soothing," Giuseppe says. He believes in open-source mixology and shares all of his recipes online: Download directions for the Duke of Suffolk and any other drinks that catch your eye from the "Twin Lions" cocktail book, here.

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