Have a pine tree nearby? You’re only two steps away from a delicious wintery cocktail. Lucy Simon is a New York-based wine, spirits, and food writer has been with Food & Wine since the spring of 2021.

My first memory of pine trees are the black-and-white trees depicted in the guó huà, a traditional Chinese painting, that hung on my grandmother’s wall. The calligraphy below the painting read, “xue ...