When it comes to celebrating an important event, something extra special, or being with someone special – or just celebrating the end of the day – a glass of Bubbles has it’s own magic appeal.
Whether classic Champagne, or your favourite sparkling, those hundreds of tiny bubbles seem to have a party on the tip of your nose as you enjoy a chilled taste of sheer delight!
As promised, here are some of our favourite Bubbles cocktail recipies and a 12 Drinks Bubbles Centric Menu.
Absolution
The Absolution is a wonderful drink to entertain with. It doesn’t take a lot of mixing or work to prepare – just chill the vodka
Mimosa Margarita
Mimosa Margaritas are the best combinations of the two cocktails. Orange juice and champagne spiked with tequila and some juice for extra zing! Ingredients (Serves
Negroni Sbagliato
A Negroni without Gin… a sin! No wonder it is called a “wrong” Negroni! Ingredients Sweet Vermouth Campari Prosecco Garnish Orange Peel Create Pour 30ml
French 75
So flavourful, this refreshing cocktail has so much history and is dangerously quaffable! Ingredients 15ml Simple Syrup 15ml Lemon Juice 25ml Gin Ice Champagne or
Mimosa (classic)
Nothing kicks off brunch quite like a Mimosa. Ingredients Freshly squeezed orange juice – Chilled Chilled Champagne, Prosecco, Cava or sparkling wine Garnish Orange slices
Some famous Champagne quotes – why we love it!
“Why do I drink Champagne for breakfast? Doesn’t everyone?”
– Noel Coward
“Too much of anything is bad, but too much Champagne is just right.”
– Mark Twain
“Remember gentlemen, it’s not just France we are fighting for, it’s Champagne!”
– Winston Churchill
“I only drink Champagne on two occasions, when I am in love and when I am not.”
– Coco Chanel
bubbles-centric 12Drinks menu
Now we don’t want this to become a Sparkling website – but one of our most respected contributors does prefer bubbles, so in deference to her we have created this very bubbles-centric 12 Drinks menu.
We start with The Basics. These are simple to make Bubbles Centric, and here is our first “bending” of the substitution rules.
In The Basics section – you can swap out the beer for another bubbles, and the red wine for white.
So if we bend a little more – the 4 Basic drinks could be:
2 glasses of Champagne
2 glasses of Sparkling (white) wine
That works doesn’t it?
Then we have The Mixed, so what about these?
2 Bubbles based cocktails – Classic Mimosas
2 Gin based cocktails (with bubbles) – French ’75s
2 Tequila spiked Mimosa Margaritas
2 Vodka forward Absolution cocktails
And that is the 12 Drinks, with only minor rule bending!
