Wicked Halloween Evening for Adults Only

This Halloween, after you've passed out candy to the kids, trade in the plastic pumpkins and Styrofoam headstones and redefine the macabre. Welcome adult ghouls to the dark side by playing the part of the modern alchemist and purveyor of ghastly killer cocktails.

Bull's Eye Finotini

1 oz. Osborne Fino Sherry
4 oz. Gin or vodka
Shake with ice and strain into a martini glass. Garnish with bloody eyeballs and revel in the grotesqueness.

With a small knife, peel radishes, leaving thin streaks of red skin on to represent blood vessels. Scoop out a small hole in each radish and stuff in a green olive, pimento side out.  Optional: Place one radish eyeball in each section of an empty ice cube tray, fill the tray with water and freeze overnight.

Urban Decay

3 oz Freixenet Brut de Noirs or Brut Rose
3 oz orange juice
2 oz cranberry juice
1/2 oz spiced rum
1/2 oz crème de cassis
Splash of grenadine
Gummy worms

Starting with all ingredients well-chilled, mix together. Place a few gummy worms in a wine glass and pour in the potion.

Pumpkin Plague Punch

2 bottles Freixenet Cordon Negro sparkling wine
1 cup orange juice
1 cup orange liqueur
1 cup mandarin-orange flavored vodka

Starting with all ingredients well-chilled, mix orange juice, orange liqueur, vodka and ice cubes in a large punch bowl. Pour in Freixenet Cordon Negro sparkling wine.

Serving Tips:  To add some mystery to your creepy concoction, place a bowl of dry ice below the punch bowl and pour hot water over it for that spooky, billowing effect of a witch's cauldron or add plastic bugs or spiders in ice trays before freezing.

Freixenet and Segura Viudas are owned and operated by the Ferrer family of Sant Sadurní d'Anoia, Spain. Imported by Freixenet USA of Sonoma, California, the wines of the Freixenet Group are available in all fifty states. The Freixenet Group produces over 100 wines under more than 15 brands and markets them in over 140 countries.

Edited by Patricia D. Sherman

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