Let’s Get Blitzen: Cocktail Advent Calendar – Day 21 – Pom-Pom Jubilee.
A sparkling, jewel-toned moment for the nights when you want to feel festive and remember everything you said the next morning. The Pom-Pom Jubilee is a zero-proof toast that doesn’t feel like it’s missing anything — bright, tart, gingery, and properly celebratory.
This is the drink for clinking glasses during gift exchanges, hovering near the snack table, or volunteering to be the “I’m pacing myself” hero of the evening. It looks like a party and tastes like one too.
Tasting notes
Cranberry and pomegranate bring that unmistakable ruby-red holiday energy — tart, juicy, and refreshing. GIMBER adds a bold ginger backbone with real heat and depth, keeping the drink firmly out of juice territory. Non-alcoholic sparkling wine lifts everything into flute-worthy sparkle, while the candied cranberries on top double as garnish and tiny edible ornaments.
It’s bright, balanced, and surprisingly satisfying — the kind of drink that makes people ask, “Wait… what’s in this?”
GIMBER N°1 Original is an organic ginger concentrate made with real ginger, lemon, herbs, and spices. It’s alcohol-free, intentionally intense, and designed to behave like a proper cocktail ingredient rather than a mixer. A little goes a long way, and that bold ginger heat is exactly what gives zero-proof drinks structure and staying power.
In Pom-Pom Jubilee, GIMBER keeps the red fruit flavours crisp and lively instead of sweet-soft, giving you a drink that feels grown-up, festive, and very much part of the party.
Teachable moment
Shake everything except the bubbles. You want the juices and ginger fully integrated and well chilled, then gently top with non-alcoholic sparkling wine to keep the drink lively. Think celebration, not soda fountain.
If this Pom-Pom Jubilee lights your fire, check out my similar recipes:
Tune into my Instagram Stories tonight at 5 p.m. Eastern for a step-by-step build, plus a brief pep talk on why zero-proof drinks deserve real glassware and garnish swagger.
Cheers, friends!
Pom-Pom Jubilee
- 1 oz cranberry juice
- ½ oz GIMBER No.1 Original
- ½ oz pomegranate juice
- 3 oz non-alcoholic sparkling wine Oddbird or similar
- Garnish: candied cranberries
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Add ingredients to a shaker, excluding non-alcoholic sparkling wine, with ice and shake until well-chilled.
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Strain into a flute glass and top with non-alcoholic sparkling.
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Garnish with three candied or fresh cranberries skewered on a cocktail pick.
