Kiss the Bottle: Seven Sultry Spirits for Valentine's Day

"I kissed the bottle/I should've been kissing you/You wake up to an empty night/With tears for two"--Jawbreaker, "Kiss the Bottle"

Who says you need a date for Valentine's Day? Love and lust are fleeting, but a good bottle of liquor will never let you down. Everyone's sharing Valentine's Day cocktail recipes, but here are seven spirits that can be sipped on their own, no mixing required. Pour one out with your sweetie or a friend, or with your fine-lookin' self, on February 14 or, honestly, any other time of the year:

Compass Box Hedonism

Ilegal Mezcal

Pierre Ferrand Ambre

Glenmorangie Signet

Santa Teresa 1796

Carpano Antica Sweet Vermouth

Martini Rossi Sparkling Rosé Minis

Selena Ricks-Good

Selena Ricks-Good is a New York-based writer and digital strategist with more than 15 years in journalism, brand development, and content marketing. Her writing on food, drinks, travel, and culture has appeared in CBS New York, Time Out New York, Village Voice, and Thrillist. She founded Little Good Life to fill the gap she kept hitting in her own life: thoughtful, opinionated travel writing for families whose kids are past the stroller years. She lives in New York with her husband and a travel-soccer-playing teenage son who has firm opinions about crudo, boba, and pizza.