Champagne is a sparkling wine of great distinction – turning any occasion into something a little more speci al. There are various styles of champagne for e.g Brut and Demi Sec as well as vintage and non vintage.In the champagne There are also extraordinarily strict limits on the amount of juice that can be squeezed from a certain weight of grapes to maintain the highest quality of champagne produced.
Here we have selected a few of our favourite champagne cocktails for you to try out – we hope you enjoy making them. For the best cocktail results, always use chilled champagne. Serve all champagne cocktails in a flute glass which allows the bubbles to move from the bottom to the top of the glass. The more space the bubbles have to move around in within the glass, the longer it  will keep its fizz.
Cocktails using sparkling wine as a base are as old as the beverage itself. Add fruit to anything that fizzes and you’ve got a drink in your hand that’s been a hit for hundreds of years. You have to believe that the monks who invented sparkling wine threw in some local fruit along the way in their experimentation with the fizzy wine they concocted.
By the mid 1800’s the Classic Champagne Cocktail was all the rage at dinner parties and soirees in genteel society. Today these sparkling cocktails are as hip as ever in wine bars and lounges from coast to coast. We love sparkling wine and were curious how these drinks and cocktails would go over at a party, so we decided to experiment ahead of time. Put on the cocktail music and mix away . The Champagne Cocktail is a marvelously simple mixture of champagne and a sugar cube soaked in angostura bitters.
- Chill your sparkling wines. Keep them about 42-45° F.
- Don’t use cheap sparkling for cocktails. Good ingredients make a good drink.
- Don’t use the highest end sparkling either. Drink your Dom straight.
- As most sparkling wine drinks are on the sweet side, use a dry sparkling.
- Chill the glass [flute] ahead of time. Sparkling wine likes to be served well chilled.
- Pour small amounts of sparkling in at a time to prevent foam over. Repeat until the glass is filled.
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