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Serving the right drinks can make your party, reception or dinner complete. Choosing the right wine with your meal or having special drinks or punches at your shower or theme party can add just the right touch, and wow your guests.

Seasonal drink recipes are easy and fun to mix.

Jello shots are all the rage at summer parties and New Years, and then there's homemade egg nog at Christmas, or chilled Vampire wine or sangria for Halloween.

But everyone can be a star bartender at their own party if they have the recipes for unusual cocktails and traditional favorites. Check the list of wine spritzers, cocktails and punches that Chiff.com users have shared in our drink & cocktail recipe section or take a tour of the top sites on mixology just up ahead and read feature stories for specialty drinks served at home or at the office.

These sites have guides to popular drinks, tips on what to serve, recipes and plenty of ideas for you to serve up the next time you entertain...

BarDrinks.com - One-stop shopping for drink recipes searchable by keyword, name or ingredient, or browseable in an alphabetical list, along with quick links to classic, frozen and hot drinks.

Mattoni Grand Drink - The online magazine serving up a huge database of mixed drinks searchable by name, ingredients, or criteria such as zodiacal sign (!) or by section including party cocktails and more, plus feature stories, related news, Q&A.

Schweppes - A bracing tonic of flash animation and seriously fun content, including a complete Mixology 101 course, tips and advice on hosting a great party, plus recipes for the top classics including the highball, the martini, manhattan, old fashioned and whiskey sour.

American Bartending School - Drink Recipes - A brief, bartending-for-dummies intro, followed by 300 recipes for classic drinks from the sedate Dubonnet Cocktail to the wild Suicide Surfer.

Wines of France - Quick, What Should I Drink? - Expert advice on what to serve with salads, meat, fish, past, vegetables, eggs, cheese or desserts, plus a complete guide to wines for special occasions.

Easy Party Punch Recipes - A brief history of the origins of punch, with complete tips and tricks to making the perfect punch, what to serve it in, and over a dozen recipes including champagne, mint julep, sherbet and rum punch.

Punch Recipes at Food Down Under Recipe Database - Comprehensive Australian site with over 800 recipes for alcohol and non-alcohol beverage punches for any party occasion.

MADD Online: Non-Alcholic Party Drink Recipes - Ciders, juices, sherbet and ginger ale drinks along with a Safe Party Guide from Mothers Against Drunk Driving.

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Election Night Cocktails
The campaigns are finally over ...and does the electorate ever need a drink! Say hip, hip, hooray with these classic cocktail recipes that have brought America through scandal, recession, depression and several presidents...
Party Like It's 1929
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Virgin Cocktails: Secret Weapons for the Office Party
The secret to surviving the office party is to at least appear hip with the drinking crowd while still maintaining your decorum. The first trick? Get in league with the bartender who can serve up nonalcoholic cocktails to help maintain your cover as a teetotaler ...

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