Champagne is royalty among alcoholic beverages, if not for anything, for its sparkly golden bubbles. You can call it the beautiful princess in the fairytale of drinks and you won’t be wrong.
While it is simply magic to sip the sparkling wine without mixing it, making a cocktail out of it is another amazing experience on its own.
Champagne cocktails do not just give off the sweet-sour taste of the wine, but a tingly sensation to the taste buds as well as the laid back feeling of whatever special flavours have been used in the cocktail.
Sipping a good champagne cocktail not only makes the good times better but creates plenty of spirit, as well as add a whole new buzz to that party or romantic dinner.
Here are the top champagne-based cocktails you can make:
5 Simple Champagne Cocktails
1. Champagne Cocktail
This is about the simplest champagne-based cocktail to make since it does not take up too many ingredients. It brings together two opposites into the sour taste of the wine – sweetness and bitterness.
What you need
- 1 Sugar cube
- 2 dashes Angostura bitters
- Moet Brut Champagne
- A twist of lemon or lime (lemon preferably).
How to make Champagne Cocktail
- Place the sugar cube on a spoon and douse with bitters.
- Drop into a Champagne flute and fill with the Moet Brut Champagne.
- Garnish with a lemon twist.
- Best served with dinner.
2. Sparkler Cocktail
Like the name goes, even the stars do not give the skies enough sparkle as this cocktail would give to that special Valentine’s Day dinner.
What you need
- 1 oz Olmeca Gold Tequila
- Grenadine syrup
- 5 oz Laurent Perrier DEMI SEC Champagne
- A slice of strawberry to garnish.
How to make Sparkler Cocktail
- Pour in the champagne into a champagne flute, add tequila and syrup and allow to settle.
- Garnish with a slice of strawberry.
- Best served chill (especially the tequila and the champagne)
3. Moet Golden Glamour
A popular feature during the Academy awards, this is a premium champagne-based cocktail. It adds another wonderful buzz evening events and cocktail parties.
What you need
- 4 oz Moët & Chandon Imperial Champagne
- .25 oz Navan Vanilla Liqueur
- 1.5 oz Passion fruit juice
- Mint sprig to garnish
How to make Moet Golden Glamour
- Simply add all the ingredients to a coupe glass.
- Garnish with a fresh mint sprig.
4. Basil Fizz Cocktail
This is one that can even be had with breakfast or brunch, and for that purpose, it is a wonderful way to get the day started – especially days that will end in a wild night of partying.
What you need
- 1 oz Wild Turkey 101 Bourbon
- 4 oz Champagne
How to make Basil Fizz Cocktail
- Add Basil Hayden’s Bourbon and Champagne to a flute.
5. Very Sexy Martini Cocktail
Don’t be deceived by the name, this is no Martini. However, taken with a Martini glass, this is a wedding of several flavours with champagne as the leader of the pack.
What you need
- 3 Raspberries
- 5 Mint leaves
- 1 oz Fresh lime juice
- 1 oz Simple syrup (one part sugar, one part water)
- 1.5 oz Premium citrus vodka
- 1.5 oz Moët & Chandon Rosé Imperial Champagne
How to make Very Sexy Martini Cocktail
- Put the raspberries and mint in a shaker and muddle together.
- Add the remaining ingredients except the Champagne and fill with ice.
- Shake, and strain into a Martini glass.
- Pour in the Champagne and garnish with a mint spring and a raspberry.
