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Fifty Best Champagne Cocktails
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To some purists, the mixing of champagne with anything might seem unthinkable.
For cocktail lovers, champagne or sparkling wine becomes a choice ingredient with which to add other interesting flavours.

Champagne glasses

These are the fifty best.
Nine times nine cheers!

 


Champagne Cobbler
1/2 tsp lemon juice, 1/2 tsp curaçao,
thin slice of orange, chilled champagne

Fill a large goblet half full of cracked ice. Add lemon juice, curaçao, and orange slice. Stir and fill glass with champagne or sparkling wine. Stir again gently.

Bellini (add fresh peach puree and juice)
Black Velvet
(add chilled stout)
Mimosa
(add orange juice)
Nelson's Blood (add tawny port)

Champagne Sherbet Punch
Old Waldorf Champagne Punch
Aristocrat Sparkling Punch
Champagne Cup
Empire Punch

Morning Glory

Fill Collins glass with ice chunks, pour 1/2 ounce Cointreau, 1/4 ounce cherry brandy, and a dash of Angostura bitters. Add orange/ pineapple slices. Fill with champagne or sparkling wine.

Magna Carta
1-1/2 ounces well-chilled tequilla, lime juice,
1 ounce well-chilled Triple Sec, salt,
champagne or sparkling wine

Dip the rim of a chilled wine glass in lime juice, then salt. Pour in tequilla and Triple Sec, then fill with champagne or sparkling wine. Stir gently.

Kir Royale

Pour iced champagne or sparkling wine into a large chilled wine glass, add 1/2 ounce of crème de cassis, and stir gently.
Garnish with a twist of lemon peel.

Regent's Punch

Three bottles of Champagne or sparkling wine, two of Madeira, one of German white wine, an ounce of Curaçao, a quart of brandy, a pint of rum, two bottles of seltzer, four pounds of raisins, oranges and lemons, sugar, and all diluted with green tea.

Golden Millennium
(King Cole Bar, St. Regis Hotel, NYC)

Place gold leaf in the bottom of a champagne flute, add a dash of Liqueur 43, and fill with champagne.

Arise My Love

Put one teaspoon of crème de menthe in a
champagne glass, then fill with champagne
or sparkling wine.

Savoy 2000
(American Bar, The Savoy, London)

Shake 2/3 ounce gin, 2/3 ounce Midori, 1/3 ounce Limoncello, 1-2/3 ounces mango juice.
Pour into glass frosted with sugar, and top with champagne.

Queen's Cousin

Combine 1 ounce vodka,
1/2 ounce Grand Marnier,
1/2 ounce of fresh lime juice,
and 1 tsp Triple Sec.
Gently add 3 ounces of well-chilled champagne or sparkling wine. Top with 2 dashes Angostura bitters.

Champagne Normande
Caribbean Champagne
French Revolution
Imperial Fizz
King's Peg
Buck's Fizz

Ritzy Raspberry Revelry
(Hemingway Bar, Hotel Ritz, Paris)

Pour into a champagne flute 2/3 ounce vodka in which raspberries have macerated for at least 10 days. Finish with champagne.
Garnish with a red rose.

Schussboomer's Delight

Place 2 ice cubes, 3/4 ounce fresh lemon juice,
and 1-1/2 ounces cognac in a tall glass.
Fill with chilled champagne or sparkling wine.

Air Mail
Alfonso Cocktail
American Beauty Cocktail
Bourbon Lancer
Chicago
Count Currey

Polo Deux Milles
(Polo Lounge, Beverly Hills Hotel and Bungalows)

Pour 1/4 ounce Grand Marnier Cuvée du Centenaire into a champagne flute.
Fill with 6 ounces of champagne.
Splash 1/4 ounce Blue Curaçao on top.

Maimoun
(Churchill Piano Bar, La Mamounia, Marrakesh)

Combine 1/3 ounce Amaretto,
1/3 ounce fig alcohol,
4 ounces of brut champagne,
and a drop of mint syrup.

Happy Youth
1 ounce cherry brandy
1-1/2 ounces sweet vermouth
3 ounces chilled orange juice
1 tsp sugar
champagne or sparkling wine

Pour ingredients, except champagne, into a large
stemmed glass over ice cubes. Stir gently and top with champagne or sparkling wine.
Garnish with a slice of orange.

Baker's Dozen
Rheims Punch
World of Tomorrow Punch
Keuka Cup
Buddha Punch

Formosa

Pour 4 ounces champagne or sparkling wine into a brandy snifter. Fill with 6 ounces orange juice.
Top off with a dash of Triple Sec.

French 75

Shake with cracked ice, 1-1/2 ounces of dry gin,
fresh juice of 1/2 lemon, 1/2 tsp powdered sugar.
Pour into glass with ice cubes, fill with chilled champagne or sparkling wine.
Add a twist of lemon peel or a cherry.

Blue Train Cocktail

Shake well together with cracked ice, 1/4 brandy and 1/4 lightly sweetened pineapple juice.
Fill glass 1/2 full with this mixture and top with well-chilled champagne or sparkling wine.

Champagne Julep

Place one sugar cube and two sprigs of fresh mint into a chilled highball glass. Add two cubes of clear ice and slowly pour in well-chilled champagne or sparkling wine, stirring constantly. A splash of bourbon is optional. Garnish with slices of fresh fruit, if desired.

Diamond Cocktail
Oriental 2000
Peppermint Park
Tahiti Typhoon
Jade


21st Martini

2½ ounces rum, 2 ounces fresh guava juice,
2 ounces fresh-pressed sugar cane juice,
champagne or sparkling wine

Fill a cocktail shaker two-thirds full of ice and add the rum, guava juice, and sugar cane juice. Shake for about 15 seconds, strain into a chilled cocktail glass, and top with the champagne or sparkling wine.

Midnight Kiss Cocktail

Rim the edge of a wine glass
with white or gold sugar.
Pour 3/4 oz. well-chilled vodka into the glass,
and fill with champagne or sparkling wine.
Top with Blue Curaçao.

D'Artagnan

1 tsp Armagnac
1 tsp Grand Marnier
1/2 ounce chilled orange juice
1/2 tsp simple syrup
champagne or sparkling wine

Pour ingredients, except champagne, into a champagne flute. Stir gently, then top with champagne or sparkling wine.
Garnish with an orange twist.



Poinsettia

Into a champagne flute, stir together
1/2 ounce of Grand Marnier or Cointreau with
1 ounce of cranberry juice.
Squeeze in juice of 1 small wedge of fresh lime.
Fill with champagne or sparkling wine.


The Benediction
(Standard Hotel, New York City)

3/4 ounce Bénédictine,
Dash, orange bitters
Champagne

Pour the Bénédictine into a Champagne flute, add the bitters, then fill to the top with Champagne.

 



G
reat champagnes stand apart, to be enjoyed on their own.
Champagne/sparkling wine should always be served chilled, preferably at about 42-45° F.

Please drink responsibly!

 

"TheFiftyBest Champagne Cocktails"
For info and recipes: editor@thefiftybest.com

 



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Fri. February 5, 2010 11:52 PM - by: danvir singh
i like it very much b cos i m hotelioer



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