Drink Up! 13 Cocktails That Will Bring You Good Luck

Four Seasons Shanghai Pudong

The Chinese New Year, also known as Lunar New Year, starts this Saturday, January 28. Whether you’ve got plans in mind or not, this is as good a time as any to infuse the coming year with the basic tenets of the holiday: good luck, prosperity, and longevity.

In honor of the Year of the Rooster, here are some particularity potent cocktails designed to start the new year on the right foot.

Good Fortune

Four Seasons Hotel New York

Blending a housemade Chinese five-spice simple syrup with Prohibition Bootlegger Batch 57 Gin, Combier Framboise, Chambord, lemon juice and raspberries, this cocktail is garnished with a fresh mint sprig and air dried raspberries.

Four Seasons Hotel New York, 57 E 57th Street, Midtown East

The Red Rooster

Blue Ribbon Sushi Izakaya

A cocktail of red wine, lychee puree, and ginger-spiced syrup that features four distinct taste characters — sweet, sour, spicy and bitter.

Blue Ribbon Sushi Izakaya, 87 Orchard Street, LES 

Chinese Five Spice Old Fashioned

The Vine

Dickel whiskey, maple syrup water, Chinese five-spice tincture and Suze orange bitters together makes for deliciousness.

The Vine, 851 Avenue of the Americas, Midtown West

Red Bird

Bar Fiori

The Red Bird is a dynamic take on a classic brandy daisy or sour, featuring the round, fruit-forward Remy Martin VSOP. The sweet and spicy, housemade five-spice raspberry syrup is brightened by fresh pineapple and lemon to add acidity.

Bar Fiori, 400 5th Avenue, Midtown West

Lucky Sling

Lucky Sling

Garnished with a Maraschino cherry, this variation on the Singapore Sling features Leopold Bros. Navy Strength gin, Strega herbal liqueur, lime juice and soda water, as well as cherry heering liqueur for a lucky red hue.

Lucky Cat Denver, 7559 E Academy Boulevard, Denver, Colorado

Additionally, several outposts of the Four Seasons Hotel around the world are serving their own specialty cocktails in honor of Chinese New Year:

Red, Four Seasons Hong Kong

Koon Ming Tang / Four Seasons Hong Kong

Red Rooster, Four Seasons, Mauritius

Four Seasons Mauritius

Blazing Bird, Four Seasons, Jumeriah Beach

Four Seasons Jumeriah Beach

Moa Kane (The Rooster), Four Seasons, Hualalai

Four Seasons Hualalai

The China Blu, Four Seasons, Maldives

Four Seasons Maldives

Golden Crow, Four Seasons, Shanghai Pudong

Four Seasons Shanghai Pudong

Red Rooster, Four Seasons, Whistler

Christine Kim

Fireworks, Four Seasons, Prague

Four Seasons Prague