I might add a category to this very useful list for something like “Cocktail (Americano)”, for drinks with booze plus vermouth or the like and (usually) bitters, from the 1880s on. There are of course two branches: one is short and up, the other long and usually with (charged) water and ice. Both are aperitifs at heart. They rarely have added sugar. There is, to be sure, a good deal of overlap between this and the original Cocktail (in a very dry Martini, the vermouth is used essentially like bitters) and this and the Cooler (e. g., the Aperol Sprits, which can be seen as a member of this family–a long Americano with prosecco instead of the booze), but there are overlaps and blurred edges everywhere in this sort of classification. The only way to avoid them is to make utterly useless, arbitrary categories: “any red drink”; “any drink served in a tall glass”; “any shaken drink”; “any drink made with rum.”
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