The only holiday cocktail recipe you need

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photo credit: Keri Zierler, November 13, 2022

Are you looking for The Lighted Tree? Are you a woodsy, nonconformist, cocktail connoisseur? Do you prefer that your beverages unsettle you? You’ve come to the right place.

Here’s the recipe for The Lighted Tree that I entered in a contest for Sunset magazine in 2014.

And here’s the story of how this festive 3-out-of-5 star concoction came to be:

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