RECIPE

Marasca Fizz

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Country • New York City

Country offers 50 sparkling wines by the bottle and up to 6 by the glass. For this Champagne cocktail, the restaurant soaks pitted sweet cherries in an anise-infused syrup.

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  • ACTIVE:
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  • SERVINGS: makes 1 drink

Ingredients

  • Ingredients
    1. 3 maraschino cherries, plus 3/4 ounce syrup from the jar
    2. Superfine sugar
    3. 3 dashes of Angostura Bitters
    4. 2 brown sugar cubes
    5. 1/2 ounce Cherry Heering or cherry liqueur
    6. 4 ounces chilled Champagne

Directions

  1. Moisten the outer rim of a flute with 1/2 ounce maraschino cherry syrup and coat with superfine sugar. Sprinkle the bitters over the sugar cubes. Add the Cherry Heering, maraschino cherries and the remaining 1/4 ounce of maraschino cherry syrup to the flute. Top with the Champagne and add the sugar cubes.