28-07-2025
The Only Cocktail List You Need To Match Your 2025 Vibe
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Whether you're living your delulu dream, soft-launching your peace, or ghosting chaos with grace, there's a drink that gets your vibe
We're halfway through 2025, and one thing's clear: everyone's in their main-character era—with a playlist, a moodboard, and now… a cocktail. Whether you're living your delulu dream, soft-launching your peace, or ghosting chaos with grace, there's a drink that gets your vibe.
So, what's your cocktail persona this year? Let's pour one for your current energy.
1. For Your 'Smooth But Unbothered' Era: The Weller Paper Plane
You've stopped overexplaining, your boundaries are clear, and your peace is non-negotiable. The Weller Paper Plane? Smooth, confident, with just enough zing—exactly like your energy.
Ingredients:
30ml Weller Special Reserve Bourbon
30ml Aperol
30ml Amaro Nonino
30ml fresh lemon juice
How to Make It:
Shake all ingredients with ice. Strain into a coupe glass. Sip slowly, effortlessly.
2. For Your 'Main Character Clarity' Phase: The Patrón Margarita
Booked, glowing, and done with bare-minimum energy. This drink is fresh, unfussy, and always in season—just like you.
60ml Patrón Reposado
15ml orange liqueur
20ml fresh lime juice
How to Make It:
Shake with ice and pour into a salt-rimmed glass. Garnish with lime. Sip while mentally soft-blocking bad energy.
3. For Your 'Soft Life, Sharp Mind' Season: Watermelon Basil Margarita
You're linen-clad, joy-prioritising, and five moves ahead. This cocktail is soft, layered, and strategic just like your glow-up.
Ingredients:
60ml Patrón Reposado
30ml watermelon juice15ml sugar syrup
20ml lime juice
6 basil leaves
How to Make It:
Shake with ice. Strain into a salt-rimmed coupette. Sip: playful meets power.
4. For Your 'Rooted But Radiant' Energy: Golden Elixir
You've done the work—and it shows. This cocktail is refined, grounded, and unapologetically you.
Ingredients:
45ml Dewar's 12-Year Scotch
15ml saffron-infused honey
15ml lemon juice
2 dashes cardamom bitters
Soda water to top
How to Make It:
Shake Scotch, honey, lemon, and bitters. Strain into a black salt-rimmed glass, top with soda. Sip slow, this one's for the long game.
Whatever vibe you're carrying into the second half of 2025, bold, blissed-out, or beautifully balanced, there's a cocktail for it. So raise a glass to your era, one unapologetic sip at a time.
First Published:
July 28, 2025, 14:03 IST
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