Champagne Cocktail Recipes
The following champagne cocktail recipes—or sparkling wine recipes; we’re not sticklers to the rules—will help you celebrate the victories big and small. Starting a new year is certainly a win, but so is meeting up with your mom for brunch or making bubbly cocktails for a game night with friends. There’s no occasion too small for a champagne-and-something. When in doubt, use a dry brut champagne. And point the cork away from your loved ones’ faces.
Whiskey Spritz
This spritz takes some heady flavors—stone fruit, Japanese whisky, sparkling wine—and combines them into a whiskey cocktail that feels featherlight.
Ingredients
• 1 1/2 oz. Suntory Whisky Toki
• 1 3/4 oz. Tempus Fugit Kina L’Aéro D’Or Aperitif
• 1 1/2 tsp. apricot brandy
• 1 1/2 oz. sparkling wine
• 1 1/2 oz. club soda
Directions
Combine whisky and aperitif in a large wine glass. Add 2 large ice cubes, cracked, then stir. Add apricot brandy and more cracked ice, almost to the top. Add sparkling wine and club soda, then stir again. Garnish with expressed and rolled grapefruit peel and half a strawberry.
Aperol Spritz
The Aperol Spritz carries summer, though not a soul will know if you drink it off-season. It is ubiquitous, and oddly enough, contentious.
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