The nation is thawing itself out from another weird and wild winter. Flowers are starting to bloom out, the sun is staying up a bit longer, the Kentucky Derby is right around the corner, and we’re worried about whether or not California is going to have enough water to make it through the summer. With this in mind, we present some cocktails to help usher in spring, and help with the inevitable welcome of summer.

Greta Garbo
1.5 oz Absolut Vanilla
1 oz lime juice
1 oz simple syrup
5 raspberries
bar spoon Rose Water
5 oz prosecco

Muddle 5 raspberries. Add ingredients. Shake and strain with mesh strainer into martini glass. Top with prosecco.

Pendleton Shandy
2 oz. Pendleton Whisky
1 oz. orange juice
2 oz. lemonade
your beer of choice (note: we used West Sixth’s Belgian Style Blonde)

Build ingredients directly into a pint glass or pilsner glass filled with ice. Garnish with orange slice.

DeLeón Salud
2 oz. DeLeon Platinum
½ oz. Palo Cortado sherry
1 oz. fresh pineapple juice
½ oz. fresh lime juice
¼ oz. passion fruit puree
1 dash absinthe
2 dashes Angostura bitters

Shake all ingredients vigorously with clean, cold ice. Strain into a rocks glass over fresh ice. Garnish with an orange peel.

Pineapple and Sage Gimlet
7.5 oz Bombay Sapphire gin
3.75 oz lime juice
3 oz simple syrup
7 sage leaves
5 oz pineapple juice

Build with ice in punch bowl and stir. Serves 5 people.

Sangria Flora
3 cups Sauvignon Blanc or dry white wine
¾ cup St. Germain elderflower liqueur
5 fresh strawberries (halved)
5 fresh raspberries
5 fresh blackberries
10 fresh grapes

Stir ingredients in a carafe. Let the mixture soak for 15 minutes (or longer if desired), then pour into ice-filled glasses.

Ketel One Peach-Tini
(note: Ignore the lame name. This one’s pretty dang good!)
1.5 ounce Ketel One vodka
1/2 ounce fresh lemon juice
1/2 ounce simple syrup
1.5 ounce white tea
2 dashes lemon bitters

Steep the white tea with white cranberry juice and raspberries. Combine all ingredients in a mixing glass and shake with ice. Double strain into a chilled martini glass. Garnish with a lemon twist and raspberry.