Taste profile
Fruity cocktails
Fruity cocktails let a specific fruit — muddled, juiced or reduced into a liqueur — do most of the talking, with the spirit playing a supporting role. Unlike tropical drinks, which lean on a fixed rum-and-juice vocabulary, fruity cocktails borrow from whatever fruit is in season, from stone fruit and berries to citrus and pomegranate. Done well, they taste like the fruit itself, only sharper and a little more grown up.
80 fruity cocktails
Shirley Temple
Ginger ale and grenadine with a maraschino cherry — a bright, fizzy classic mocktail.
Bacardí Cocktail
White rum, lime and grenadine, shaken cold — a Daiquiri with a pink, pomegranate-sweetened twist.
Between the Sheets
Cognac, white rum, triple sec and lemon in close-to-equal parts — a strong, citrus-bright Sidecar relative.
Three Dots and a Dash
Dark and gold rum shaken with citrus, falernum and allspice dram — a spiced tiki classic named for its Morse-code cherry garnish.
Sparkling Cranberry Mocktail
Tart cranberry juice lengthened with soda and lime — a bright, festive-looking three-ingredient mocktail.
Corpse Reviver No. 1
Cognac, apple brandy and sweet vermouth, stirred cold — the older, spirit-forward half of the Corpse Reviver family.
Roy Rogers
Cola and grenadine with a maraschino cherry — the cola-based sibling to a Shirley Temple.
Virgin Sunrise
Orange juice and grenadine, layered so the colour bleeds from red to gold — the Tequila Sunrise without the tequila.
Alcohol-Free Bellini
Peach purée topped with alcohol-free sparkling wine — two ingredients, and the same drink the original always was.
Virgin Sea Breeze
Cranberry and grapefruit over ice — the Sea Breeze's dry, tart half, which was always the interesting part.
Raspberry Shrub Soda
Raspberry shrub lengthened with soda — sweet, sharp and genuinely complex, with vinegar doing the work alcohol usually does.
Alcohol-free
Fruity without the alcohol
17 alcohol-free fruity options.
Shirley Temple
Ginger ale and grenadine with a maraschino cherry — a bright, fizzy classic mocktail.
Sparkling Cranberry Mocktail
Tart cranberry juice lengthened with soda and lime — a bright, festive-looking three-ingredient mocktail.
Roy Rogers
Cola and grenadine with a maraschino cherry — the cola-based sibling to a Shirley Temple.
Virgin Sunrise
Orange juice and grenadine, layered so the colour bleeds from red to gold — the Tequila Sunrise without the tequila.
Alcohol-Free Bellini
Peach purée topped with alcohol-free sparkling wine — two ingredients, and the same drink the original always was.
Virgin Sea Breeze
Cranberry and grapefruit over ice — the Sea Breeze's dry, tart half, which was always the interesting part.
Raspberry Shrub Soda
Raspberry shrub lengthened with soda — sweet, sharp and genuinely complex, with vinegar doing the work alcohol usually does.
What drives it
What makes a cocktail fruity
Not simply the most common ingredients — the ones that appear far more often in fruity drinks than across the catalogue as a whole.
Orange Juice
In 26 of these · 2.3× the catalogue rate
Grenadine
In 16 of these · 2.4× the catalogue rate
Pineapple Juice
In 14 of these · 2.1× the catalogue rate
Cranberry Juice
In 6 of these · 2.4× the catalogue rate
White Rum
In 10 of these · 1.7× the catalogue rate
Orange Wheel
In 5 of these · 2.4× the catalogue rate
Triple Sec
In 8 of these · 1.7× the catalogue rate
Dark Rum
In 11 of these · 1.4× the catalogue rate
The flavour graph
Where fruity sits
Measured from the catalogue rather than asserted: which flavours actually travel together, and the drink that gets you from one to the other.
- Tropical
Fruity drinks are clearly associated with tropical ones: 17 carry both, making a fruity drink 90% more likely to also be tropical than a drink picked at random.
- Sweet
Fruity drinks are mildly associated with sweet ones: 46 carry both, making a fruity drink 27% more likely to also be sweet than a drink picked at random.