12 Cocktails of Summer

A Fancy Garden Party Calls for Mixing Gin With Champagne

How to make a Seersucker Fizz, a gin cocktail to end all gin cocktails, for the swankiest of summer affairs. 

A Seersucker Fizz is the best drink for a fancy summer party. Silver Trim Leopold coupe glass ($41.99 for six) by Cocktail Kingdom.

Photographer: Janelle Jones/Bloomberg; Food Stylist: Liza Jernow; Prop Stylist: Anna Surbatovich

The Hamptons, Monaco, Martha’s Vineyard, Muskoka—you get the idea. For some, the hot summer months are an excuse to get out of the sultry city and escape to somewhere posh.

But just because you’re out of office, it doesn’t mean there isn’t serious business to attend to. Like garden parties. And fundraisers. And boffo charity events. And hosted cocktail hours to impress those neighbors who went so far as to purchase a photo booth for their own casual affairs.