Drupal 7 views accordion doesn't work - view

Hi I've installed the views accordion module to display a list of cocktails using taxonomy and it's not working for me.
My taxonomy looks like this
Drinks
Classics
Drink 1 & ingredients
Drink 2 & ingredients
...more
Signatures
Drink 1 & ingredients
Drink 2 & ingredients
...more
I want the accordion to display 2 clickable options classics and signatures and when clicking on any of the 2, it will display a list of drinks.
What I get is classics, drink 1, drink 2, signatures, drink 1, drink 2 all as clickable options. I've also tried creating an accordion without using my taxonomy list and I can't manually create one.
Can someone point me in the right direction and tell me what I'm doing wrong please.

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