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  4. 16 Festive Champagne Cocktails to Celebrate

16 Festive Champagne Cocktails to Celebrate

By Food & Wine Updated December 19, 2018
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Clementine 75
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From classics like the French 75 to mash-ups like the Champagne mojito, cocktails with bubbles are just more fun. Here, our favorite Champagne-forward cocktail recipes for big celebrations.
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French 75

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Mixologists around the world make this fizzy, lemony drink with gin, but New Orleans bartenders opt for cognac. It's a refreshing twist on an old classic.

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Hat Trick

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This cocktail uses tart, vibrant rhubarb bitters.

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Cork County Bubbles

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Mixologist John Coltharp likes making this Champagne cocktail with herbal, woody Jameson 12-year Irish whiskey (made in Ireland’s County Cork).

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Marasca Fizz

Marasca Fizz
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For this Champagne cocktail, pitted sweet cherries are soaked in an anise-infused syrup.

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Southside Royale

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Bartender Eric Alperin says that almost all great cocktails involve a few fundamental categories of flavor: strong, sweet, sour and bitter most commonly, plus the outliers floral, smoky and spicy (like cayenne pepper, a new drinks trend right now). The flavor building blocks for this champagne cocktail are: gin (strong), lime juice (sour), simple syrup (sweet), mint (floral).

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Platinum Sparkle

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For parties, Kathy Casey premixes the first four ingredients in large batches (3 parts vodka to 1 part each liqueur, Lillet and lemon juice). When she's ready to pour, she fills a shaker with ice and 3 ounces of the mixture, shakes, strains into a glass and tops with Champagne.

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Classic Champagne Cocktail

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This classic cocktail is ideal for holiday parties and toasts.

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Sour Cherry-Yuzu Bellinis

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Jean-Georges Vongerichten's effervescent sour-cherry cocktail calls for yuzu juice (from the bumpy-skinned Japanese citrus fruit) for a citrus kick; a mix of tangerine and lime juices nearly matches yuzu's flavor.

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Chef Darren Bartley brandies peaches for this Champagne drink.

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Amer Mousseux

Amer Mousseux, Bouchon • Yountville, California
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Two bracing Italian liqueurs, Cynar and Campari, lend this quirky orange-accented sparkling cocktail a love-it-or-hate-it bitterness.

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Lush

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Chef Shaun Doty and bar manager Jacki Schmidt created Lush as an aperitif, but it’s become a popular nightcap with the hint of elderflower syrup.

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Mirabelle

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Chef Trey Foshee prefers using mirabelle plums for this unusual Champagne cocktail.

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Red Grape & Coconut Refresher

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Unsweetened coconut water and sliced grapes add a refreshing burst of flavor to this vodka cocktail.

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Bitter Peach

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While playing with leftover ingredients one night, Jamie Boudreau combined grappa and peach puree. The mixture was sweet, so he added Aperol, a bitter orange liqueur, then Champagne, resulting in this well-balanced cocktail.

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Sudden Headache

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Don't let the name scare you off. Mango is paired with Champagne, tequila and triple sec for a refreshingly delicious cocktail.

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Clementine 75


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This juicy cocktail is a riff on a classic French 75, but instead of using lemon juice, Food & Wine’s Justin Chapple swaps in clementine juice. The best part of this drink is that it also makes an excellent mocktail: Use apple cider vinegar and seltzer instead of the gin and Champagne.

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