Cocktails with sparkling wine: how to mix the classics
Cocktails with sparkling wine are a great aperitif to greet your guests, New Year's Eve or a cocktail party. So that you can enjoy the sparkling cocktails, you should know how to mix champagne properly.
Tips for mixing cocktails with sparkling wine
When mixing with sparkling wine, there is one thing to keep in mind: do not shake the cocktail in a shaker. Due to the carbon dioxide contained, the shaker would simply open in your hand and the entire liquid is distributed in the kitchen instead of being poured into the glass. Instead, you usually mix cocktails with sparkling wine as follows:
- Place the sparkling wine in the refrigerator where it can lie or stand still for several hours before mixing cocktails.
- Most cocktails with sparkling wine are simply prepared directly in the glass. You add all the necessary ingredients and then pour the champagne on the glass.
- Make sure to pour carefully so that the contents don't overflow.
- Which sparkling wine you use is up to your taste. A 'Brut' is most suitable for most cocktails, because this sparkling wine has a slightly tart taste and complements the otherwise rather sweet ingredients well.
The classics of sparkling wine cocktails
Sparkling drinks can be mixed with sparkling wine for every taste. Here you will find the classics:
- Bellini: Put 2 tablespoons of peach pulp in a glass of champagne and pour it on with champagne. Stir and the Bellini is ready. You can also use champagne instead of sparkling wine.
- Green field: Half fill a glass with orange juice. Then pour about 10 milliliters of Blue Curacao into the glass so that it turns green. Fill the second half of the glass with sparkling wine.
- Negroni sbagliato: Mix the "wrong" Negroni by pouring about 3 centiliters of Campari and 3 centiliters of red vermouth into a tumbler on some ice cubes. Add a dash of orange or lemon depending on your taste. Pour sparkling wine on the tumbler and decorate with an orange or lemon wedge.
- Cold duck (punch): Peel two washed lemons and put the bowl in a bowl bowl. Pour on two bottles of white wine and let everything steep for about 2 hours. Squeeze the lemons and add the juice to the wine. Boil about 100 milliliters of water with 100 grams of sugar and let the syrup cool. Put the syrup and a bottle of sparkling wine in the bowl and chill until ready to serve.
- Hugo: Put about 3 centiliters of elderflower syrup on ice cubes in a bulbous wine glass. Squeeze the juice of half a lime into the glass and pour equal amounts of sparkling wine and some mineral water. Decorate with a slice of lime and a mint leaf.
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