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6 Classic Cocktails—and the Riffs That Take Them Up a Notch

Photo of several glasses of a riff on the classic cocktail, Bittersweet Symphony with a lemon.

Making good cocktails definitely doesn’t mean that you have to be bound to the classics forever, but for a beginning home drink-maker, riffing on the classics can be a good place to start as you hunt for your own signature drink.

Here’s how to do it, starting with a few old-school cocktails, then stepping beyond the original ingredients to make something bolder, or bitter(er), or funkier, or mellower, or mezcal-ier.

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