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It is customary to drink sparkling champagne in its pure form, but if you want to try it in unusual combinations, prepare a couple of cocktails. Multi-colored drinks look very beautiful in a glass, as if they were specially created for noisy and bright parties under the moonlight.

According to the canons of winemaking, champagne is a sparkling wine made in Champagne from local grapes. But in our country this name has become a household name, and it means wine that is prepared by continuous fermentation using carbon dioxide. There are many recipes for champagne-based cocktails, the most delicious and original of them are collected in our selection.

Strawberries with champagne

Sweet and incredibly fragrant drink is ideal for creating a romantic atmosphere. Prepare two cocktails - for yourself and your soulmate.

Strawberries with champagne. Ingredients:

• champagne - 100 ml
• strawberry liqueur - 30 ml
• strawberries - 1 pc.

Strawberries with champagne. Cooking:

In order to prepare a cocktail with champagne and strawberries, you must first cool the champagne. Pour it into a glass, then add the strawberry-based liqueur and garnish the cocktail with a berry.

Mimosa

Having a set of champagne glasses, it's a sin not to take advantage of this amazing cocktail recipe. Its delicate taste and color will revive spring memories in the hearts of the entire women's company.

Mimosa. Ingredients:

• liquor - 15 ml
• orange juice - 45 ml
• champagne - 125 ml

Mimosa. Cooking:

Pour liqueur into the bottom of a thin glass, then orange juice and champagne. You don't need to mix the ingredients. For ladies who want to reduce the alcohol content of the drink, a 1:1 ratio of wine and juice is recommended.

golden velvet

Despite the fact that beer is considered not the best addition to champagne, a shot of a foamy cocktail will not hurt you. The taste and appearance of the drink will pleasantly surprise you.

Golden velvet. Ingredients:

• light beer - 100 ml
• champagne - 100 ml
• pineapple juice - 25 ml

Golden velvet. Cooking:

Chilled champagne should be poured into a tall beer glass. Then add pineapple juice and light beer. Mix everything thoroughly, insert the tube before serving.

lemon cocktail

The taste of lemon and champagne is one of the classic combinations. This cocktail can be prepared for the holiday and treat all guests.

Lemon cocktail. Ingredients:

• champagne - 100 ml
• lemon juice - 20 ml
• sugar cube

Lemon cocktail. Cooking:

At the bottom of the glass, place a sugar cube, fill it with lemon juice, then add sparkling wine. To decorate the glass, use a slice of lemon or orange, no need to add ice.

Charlie

The laconic name of the cocktail with the English charm "Charlie" is attractive. Not only the name of the drink, but also its excellent taste has a very tempting effect on your taste buds. You only need two ingredients to make it.

Charlie. Ingredients:

• champagne - 130 ml
• apricot brandy - 45 ml

Charlie. Cooking:

First, you need to pour brandy into a glass and pour the required amount of champagne. The cocktail is recommended to be served chilled, in a thin champagne glass, with no need to add ice.

You can diversify the taste of champagne with the help of fruits and berries, juice, vodka, liquor and even beer. Unusual alcoholic cocktails will give you a heady coolness and surprise you with an unforgettable combination. Such drinks are served most often in narrow glasses - flutes.

So that on a festive night not only to throw up, but also to explore the world, we offer to pour not champagne, but cocktails with it. We found some proven cool recipes, just a warning: everyone can be stubborn so that no servings will save you from a hangover (well, at least we look better in the morning). Note that for convenience it is better to get at least measuring utensils (jigger), and even better - a basic set for making cocktails: of course, you can measure everything with a spoon, but this is too vain, long and undignified. And we also advise you to cool the maximum number of glasses in advance - you can get them out of the freezer right before cooking.

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Kir Royal

Ingredients per serving:
20 ml Crème de cassis blackcurrant liqueur
150 ml champagne

Pour liqueur into a tall glass, top up with all the champagne.

Stir with a cocktail or any other long-handled spoon and serve.

Raspberry, blueberry or peach liqueurs are a great substitute
blackcurrant if you can't find it.

Mimosa

Ingredients per serving:
90 ml orange juice
90 ml champagne
Orange

Squeeze a sufficient amount of orange juice, best with your hands - this way more oils from the peel will get into it, which largely determine the taste of the drink.

Pour juice into a chilled glass, add champagne and stir.

Cut off the "leaf" of orange peel, squeeze it over the glass and throw it into it.

Rossini

Ingredients per serving:
3 strawberries
120 ml champagne
Ice

Mash the strawberries, put them in a shaker or glass with a wide bottom and fill it with ice cubes (two is enough).

Pour the champagne into the shaker, stir it with a spoon until it is well cooled.

Pour through a strainer (strainer) into a chilled glass.

Martini Royale

Ingredients per serving:
75 ml champagne
75 ml sweet white vermouth
Lime and its peel
mint leaves
Ice

Squeeze the juice of half a lime into a large wine glass, pour in the vermouth.

Put 5-7 ice cubes in a glass, pour in champagne.

Stir the cocktail with a bar spoon, throw a piece of lime zest and mint into the glass.

Champagne Flamingo

Ingredients per serving:
22 ml vodka
22 ml "Campari"

Ice
orange peel

Put ice in a shaker, pour in vodka and Campari, shake well (not to stir, but to shake).

Pour through a strainer into a tall glass, top with champagne.

Cut the zest from an orange, throw it into a glass.

Hemingway Champagne

Ingredients per serving:
30 ml absinthe or pastis
150 ml chilled champagne

Pour absinthe into a tall glass.

Add champagne (no need to stir, the bubbles will do everything).

You can experiment with bitters (a drop or two will be enough) or pass absinthe through a sugar cube and throw it into a glass.

French 75

Ingredients per serving:
30 ml gin
7 ml lemon juice
4 ml sugar syrup
150 ml champagne

Sugar syrup is sugar dissolved in water. For the first time, it is better to choose a ratio of 1: 1, however, it is better to prepare a semi-finished product and pour sugar with cold water in a bottle today - by the end of December it will definitely dissolve.

Pour gin, syrup, lemon juice and syrup into a shaker, add 2-3 ice cubes and shake well.

Strain into a tall glass, top up with champagne.

Black Velvet

Ingredients per serving:
75 ml stout
75 ml champagne

Pour champagne into a tall glass.

Put a spoon into the glass and pour the stout over it in a thin stream - this way the layers of drinks do not mix and give the desired gradient.

Ginger Sparkler

2 teaspoons peeled grated ginger root
120 ml (half a cup) sugar
60 ml water
750 ml champagne

In a small saucepan, heat sugar, ginger and water for about two minutes - until a syrup is obtained. Transfer the syrup to a fine sieve to separate it from the ginger pulp.

Divide the syrup among eight tall glasses (each will need about one teaspoon), pour the champagne equally and mix gently.

Ginger syrup will keep in the fridge for one week, so you can prepare ahead of time for the party.

Tangerine Punch

Ingredients for multiple servings:
700 ml tangerine juice
470 ml pomegranate juice
350 fresh or frozen cranberries
bunch of mint
1500 ml champagne
20 toothpicks
Lots of ice

String three cranberries on toothpicks, interspersing them with mint leaves, and send to the freezer for at least an hour.

Cranberry juice itself is very acidic, so the juice that comes from the remaining berries must be strained and then mixed with water and possibly sugar. The drink needs to be tried, but the 1:2 ratio seems universal to us.

In a large transparent container (at least 5 liters in volume), mix all the juices, fill it with ice and mix gently, then add all the champagne.

Place a toothpick with berries on each glass and pour a portion of punch.

Champagne or sparkling wine can be white, rosé or red, sweet, semi-sweet, brut. The most commonly used white semi-sweet champagne.

It is not uncommon for a timely opening of champagne to turn a first date immediately into a third, followed by a pleasant continuation. Champagne is almost always present in romantic photos. Wedding photos without traditional glasses are completely unthinkable. Rose and red sparkling wines are appropriate only for romantic meetings.

Champagne is used to celebrate victories, significant events, meetings with beautiful ladies. Accordingly, an appetizer for champagne for each occasion should be different. All recipes are easy, heavy snacks are not welcome. We will consider fruit recipes, seafood, cheese.

The most common romantic champagne appetizer is fruit. Pineapples, strawberries, cherries, sweet cherries, peaches and apricots, pears, wild berries.

Pineapples with champagne

The famous St. Petersburg poet Igor Severyanin was well aware of the exciting effect of combining pineapples with sparkling wine. Petersburg bohemia of the beginning of the last century knew a lot about a beautiful life and pleasures.

Gourmet recipes with pineapples are very simple.

Canned pineapples are great for making snacks.

Buy a can of canned pineapple rings. Drain the syrup, cut the pineapple rings into 4 pieces and arrange on a flat plate. You need to take pineapple slices with a small two-pronged fork. If you don't have silver fruit forks, buy plastic canapé skewers.

drunken pineapple

Sprinkle cognac generously over dried canned pineapple rings. It is quickly absorbed and will give an interesting taste and enhance the exciting and exciting effect of the snack.

It is better not to use fresh pineapple as a snack, as it has a too bright taste and allergic reactions are possible.

Champagne with strawberries

Strawberry is considered a strong aphrodisiac, its taste awakens sensuality. Champagne strawberries are best served fresh. Rinse large selected berries with stalks well with cold water and lay them on a napkin to remove excess water. Put the washed and dried strawberries in a small vase. It is customary to take strawberries with stalks by hand.

Vitamins and nutrients contained in strawberries are best absorbed with light alcohol.

You can remove the stalks and cut the berries lengthwise into halves. In this case, strawberries should be taken with a small fork.

Frozen strawberries need to be slightly thawed, add crushed ice and sprinkle sugar on top. Frozen strawberries are eaten with a spoon.

Caviar appetizer

What do they eat champagne in Hollywood movies? Of course, caviar. In the photo of Hollywood banquets there is always caviar and champagne.

Red and black caviar is an excellent appetizer for light white wines. Useful properties of caviar are well known. Omega fatty acids contained in red fish and caviar stimulate nervous and intellectual, creative activity. A caviar appetizer can be served both on toast and in baskets.

The crust is cut off from white bread, the bread is dried in a toaster and cut into squares with a side of about 5 cm. When the toasts have cooled, they are spread with fresh butter, on which a slide of caviar and a slice of red fish are laid out.

Classic sandwiches with caviar on white bread

Classic sandwiches with caviar were excellently made in the Metropol in Soviet times. In the tiny cafeteria, which opened at 8 am, from the very opening there was a line of students and engineers rushing to start the day with a healthy “smart” sandwich and a cup of coffee.

Let's repeat the recipe of Soviet culinary experts, proven over decades.

Butter is spread on a slice of fresh white bread. We beautifully lay a couple of sprigs of greens on the oil, put half an egg on top of the greens. Then, next to the egg, we put a slice of red fish, a thin slice of lemon and a small handful of caviar, about a full teaspoon. Sprinkle with lemon juice, put the sandwiches in a slide on a dish and serve.

What drinks are compatible with champagne

Sometimes they ask questions with what they drink champagne. Champagne is absolutely and self-sufficient. It is not recommended to mix it with other drinks, as the effect of intoxication can follow immediately.

However, there are recipes for insidious cocktails that literally knock you down.

Champagne with cognac

Proportions 50/50, mix, but do not shake. For maximum effect, you can add a little sprite.

Dark romantic cocktail

Pour champagne up to the brim into the strong chocolate liqueur. Layers must not be mixed. What is perhaps relevant, exhausted champagne is also suitable for making a cocktail. The cocktail is considered morning and is suitable for fatal playboys.

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The recipe for the Italian Rossini cocktail with champagne and strawberries.

This sophisticated, romantic, chic cocktail is named after composer Gioacchino Rossini. In fact, it is a strawberry version of its “big brother” Bellini from the family of thin and fruity drinks, among which we recall the already mentioned Bellini, in addition to Mimosa and Tintorette, developed in the middle of the 20th century. getting ready Rossini cocktail of pureed fresh strawberries and prosecco, which is now usually replaced with champagne. Serve this cocktail cool and refreshing in glasses flûte ("flute") - photo # 2.

The word flûte (literally meaning "flute") or fluttino, refers to glass goblets with a thin and elongated stem that keeps the contents from getting hot in your hands. These glasses are usually used for tasting wines and sparkling wines.

Red, as the color of love and passion, this italian cocktail- for people who do not like to drink too strong drinks, suitable for an aperitif or a romantic evening for two. It is very easy to prepare it at home. Of course, you can buy a ready-made cocktail, but believe me that you can make it yourself. Moreover, preparing for the meeting of a partner or your guests will undoubtedly bring you anticipation and satisfaction.

Ingredients:

• 1 bottle of sparkling wine or champagne
• 300 g strawberries
• White wine
• 1 teaspoon sugar
• lemon juice

Making a cocktail with champagne and strawberries

1. Put champagne or sparkling wine in the refrigerator for several hours.
2. Peel the strawberries and wash them quickly in a little white wine.
3. Drain the liquid, cut the strawberries into slices or cubes and let them soak for 30 minutes in a mixture of 1 teaspoon of sugar and a few drops of lemon juice.
4. Prepare strawberry puree, pour into a glass mug, slowly adding a bottle of sparkling wine or chilled champagne. Remember that pureed fruit in contact with sparkling wines will cause a strong foamy reaction.
5. The cocktail is ready, stir gently and serve.

Italian tips for making a Rossini cocktail.

For strawberries, raspberries and other red berries, plums and cherries, young Pinot Noir champagne is best, which leaves an aftertaste. By the way, champagne with strawberries is one of the classic aperitifs. It is as romantic as the history of wine itself. Rossini is, one might say, a symbol of sensuality and love and usually accompanies the sensual moments of life. But if canapés with caviar or salmon are more suitable for drinks with friends, for example, then this classic red fruit will definitely not disappoint when meeting with your beloved man. And, of course, to stay in this sensual topic, accompaniment to such a cocktail can be only a simple dish, light and nutritious, like strawberry risotto and rose champagne.

And if we talk about cocktails in general, then all the famous cocktails, like Rossini, were born in Italy. And the United States even has a land of cocktails, where many of today's internationally famous cocktails were created. Italian bartenders are the best in the world, and among their various creations there are precisely cocktails with sparkling wine and champagne, and the very first cocktail turned out to be pure and was founded by the famous Harry Bar Bellini, born in Venice in 1929. Now Rossini cocktail known throughout the world as a great alternative to the traditional glass of champagne.

And I can only show my cocktail in the comments, so as not to spoil your general Italian-sensual mood on the eve of St. Valentine's Day - the holiday of all lovers.

Article with my translation of the recipe Italian Rossini cocktail with champagne and strawberries and not my photos prepared based on materials from Italian culinary sites.