Champagne Cocktails

Pop open the champagne to create any one of these incredible cocktails. From a traditional French 75 to the cheekily-named Sudden Headache, these Champagne cocktails are perfect for any occasion. We've also put our own special twist on mojitos, bellinis and more.

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.

Champagne Mojitos

This puckery drink is prepared with rum and fresh mint like a classic mojito, but New Orleans chef John Besh makes it holiday-worthy by topping it with a splash of Champagne.

This cocktail uses tart, vibrant rhubarb bitters.

Cork County Bubbles

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

Marasca Fizz

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

Southside Royale

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).

Platinum Sparkle

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.

Classic Champagne Cocktail

This classic cocktail is ideal for holiday parties and toasts.

Sour Cherry-Yuzu Bellinis

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.

Chef Darren Bartley brandies peaches for this Champagne drink.

Amer Mousseux

Two bracing Italian liqueurs, Cynar and Campari, lend this quirky orange-accented sparkling cocktail a love-it-or-hate-it bitterness.

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.

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

Red Grape & Coconut Refresher

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

Bitter Peach

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.

Sudden Headache

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

Champagne Cocktails

Unless you're making a drink where the flavor of the Champagne really matters (like the Classic Champagne Cocktail), generally, inexpensive alternatives such as Cava, Sekt, Prosecco or California sparkling wine work well.

This one's a brunch classic. Increase the flavor by using a 1:5 ratio of freshly-squeezed orange juice to Champagne. Then add a splash of triple sec.

The fancy cousin to the made-with-white-wine Kir, the Kir Royale consists of a dash of creme de cassis (currant syrup), topped off with Champagne.

Invented at Harry's Bar in Venice, the Bellini is best when made with ripe peaches. If peaches aren't in season, try creme de peche (peach syrup). Use a 1:4 ratio of syrup to prosecco.

This is an easy and strangely delicious drink with a 4:1 ratio of Champagne to black Irish stout.

Traditionally made from absinthe, a spirit now illegal in the United States, in a 0.5:5 ratio to Champagne, you can probably substitute pastis or another anise-flavored liqueur.

For a holiday brunch, make Poinsettias: a 1:4 ratio of triple sec to Champagne, with a splash of cranberry juice added for color.

Named for the British Admiral George Nelson, this makes a great, if slightly morbid-sounding, party drink. The recipe calls for a 5:1 ratio of Champagne to tawny Port.

Soak a sugar cube in bitters, drop it into a flute, fill the flute with Champagne and garnish with a twist of lemon. This classic drink dates back to at least the mid-19th century.

There are a number of French 75 recipes floating around; the only thing people agree on is that it's a serious drink with serious ramifications. Here's the classic: a splash of simple syrup, a bigger splash of lemon juice, an even bigger splash (about an ounce) of gin, topped off with a glassful of Champagne.

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Champagne Cocktails Perfect for Any Occasion

Get ready for New Year's Eve—or any high-spirited evening—with a bottle of champagne and one of these recipes.

Get ready for New Year's Eve—or any high-spirited evening—with a bottle of champagne and one of these cocktail recipes. We recommend brut champagne for all, but a reasonable facsimile will do the trick just fine. Try one, try them all.

• 2 oz. London dry gin

• 1 tsp. superfine sugar

• 1/2 oz. lemon juice

• 5 oz. brut champagne

Shake gin, lemon juice, and sugar well with cracked ice in a chilled cocktail shaker. Strain into a Collins glass half-full of cracked ice and top off with champagne.

Half-fill a Collins glass with stout and top up slowly with champagne. Stir gently with glass or plastic rod.

• 1 1/2 oz. Brut champagne

Stir the vodka, brandy, and sherry well with cracked ice, then strain into a chilled cocktail glass and add brut champagne.

• 2 oz. golden rum

• 1/2 oz. lime juice

• 5 oz. brut champagne

Mix rum, lime juice, and honey thoroughly with cracked ice in a chilled cocktail shaker, then pour unstrained into Collins glass. Fill with champagne. (We recommend using Puerto Rican rum.)

• 2-3 dashes Angostura bitters

Place a sugar cube in a chilled champagne flute, lash it with 2 or 3 dashes of bitters, fill the glass with brut champagne, and squeeze a lemon twist on top.

• 2 oz. orange juice

• 4 oz. brut champagne

Fill champagne flute 2/3 full of fresh-squeezed orange juice. Top up with brut champagne.

• 1 cup superfine sugar

• 1 cup lemon juice

• 1 quart and 1 cup water

• 1 1/2 cups brandy

• 1 bottle brut champagne

Dissolve the sugar in the lemon juice and water, pour in the rum and brandy, and let stand for 30 minutes in a cool place for interjubilation to occur. When serving time is at hand, pour in the champagne, and load the bowl with a cannonball of ice.

• 1 tsp. Grand Marnier

• 4 oz. brut champagne

Pour cognac (or another brandy) and Grand Marnier into a champagne flute. Top up with brut champagne.

• 1 1/2 oz. Cointreau

• 1 bottle club soda

• Slices of orange

In a punch bowl, deposit the ingredients and a berg of ice. Decorate with sliced fresh pineapple and orange and plenty of fresh mint. Crushed fresh strawberries add a gala touch, plus some flavor.

• 1 bottle burgundy

• 2 bottles brut champagne

• 1 quart sparkling water

In a punch bowl, dissolve 1/2 cup sugar (or less to taste) in the red burgundy. Add the brandy, stir, and pour in the brut champagne and the sparkling water. Place a block of ice in the bowl, decorating the top if you wish with strawberries, raspberries, or other fruit in season. Cut the oranges into thin wheels and float them in the punch.

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Classic Champagne Cocktail

The champagne shines through in this classic—with a hint of added flavor from spirits, bitters, and citrus peels. Many variations of this recipe are served at hotels and bars worldwide.

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Ingredients

- 1 sugar cube
- Angostura bitters
- Champagne
- Lemon or orange twist, for garnish

Preparation

1. Soak the sugar cube in Angostura bitters and drop into a champagne flute. Top with a luxury champagne or a sparkling wine. Garnish with a lemon or orange twist.

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Has always been one of my favorites. Great way to test a bartender and see if they know their stuff. Amazing how many try to give me a Kir Royale instead which is not AT ALL the same.

One of my favorites, but, to make it even better, before adding the champagne, add about an inch of Lillet (a French aperitif wine) to the glass and then fill with champagne.

This is my "go-to" cocktail! Simply perfect!! Classy too!

I couldn't find bitters - so I used candied ginger in lieu of the sugar & bitters.

This is a classic champagen cocktail, however, just to give it a bit more of a kick add a nip of brandy to the glass as well as the Bitters & sugar cube.(good french brandy if you have it) Voila, you have the Classic French Champagne Cocktail - French '75.

The very best and simple to make. Always my drink of choice for a special occasion.

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Champagne Cocktail

Directions

Soak a sugar cube with 2 to 3 dashes bitters. Drop the sugar cube into a chilled flute. Add 3/4 ounce brandy, if desired. Top with champagne.

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Champagne Cocktail

According to master mixologist Dale DeGroff, this is one of the few original cocktails that appeared in the first (1862) version of the seminal How to Mix Drinks by Jerry Thomas. The recipe has remained unchanged for 150 years. Slideshow: More Classic Cocktail Recipes

Ingredients

1 sugar cube
3 dashes of Angostura bitters
5 ounces chilled brut Champagne
1 lemon twist, for garnish

How to Make It

In a small dish or glass, soak the sugar cube with the Angostura bitters. Fill a chilled flute with the Champagne, then add the bitters-soaked sugar cube. Garnish the drink with the lemon twist.

Champagne Cocktails

The Champagne cocktail, once deemed sweet and silly, is back. The sugar and bitters balance the natural acidity of sparkling wine, and the cocktail pairs very well with both creamy cheese and earthy mushrooms.

Ingredients

6 sugar cubes
3 teaspoons aromatic bitters
1 bottle (750 ml.) brut Champagne or sparkling wine, chilled (see Notes)

Nutritional Information

Calories 101
Caloriesfromfat 0.0%
Protein 0.1g
Fat 0.0g
Satfat 0.0g
Carbohydrate 3.5g
Fiber 0.0g
Sodium 6.3mg
Cholesterol 0.0mg

How to Make It

Put a sugar cube into each of 6 Champagne flutes or wineglasses. Douse each cube with 1/2 tsp. bitters. Top with Champagne and serve immediately.

Note: Nutritional analysis is per cocktail.

Chef's Notes

No reason to bust open the good stuff here. The subtle flavors and fine bubbly texture of high-quality Champagne would be lost once mixed with sugar, so feel free to use less-than-stellar sparkling wine in these cocktails.

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World of Tomorrow Punch

1 ounce well-chilled Triple Sec, salt,

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Garnish with a twist of lemon peel.

Pour into glass frosted with sugar, and top with champagne.

1/2 ounce Grand Marnier,

1/2 ounce of fresh lime juice,

and 1 tsp Triple Sec.

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Garnish with a red rose.

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Fill with chilled champagne or sparkling wine.

American Beauty Cocktail

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Fill with 6 ounces of champagne.

Splash 1/4 ounce Blue Curaçao on top.

1/3 ounce fig alcohol,

4 ounces of brut champagne,

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1-1/2 ounces sweet vermouth

3 ounces chilled orange juice

champagne or sparkling wine

stemmed glass over ice cubes. Stir gently and top with champagne or sparkling wine.

Garnish with a slice of orange.

1 ounce chilled pineapple juice into a champagne glass. Top with well-chilled champagne.

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Top off with a dash of Triple Sec.

1-1/2 ounces of dry gin,

fresh juice of 1/2 lemon,

1/2 tsp powdered sugar.

Add a twist of lemon peel or a cherry.

Blue Train Cocktail

Fill glass 1/2 full with this mixture and top with well-chilled champagne or sparkling wine.

2 ounces fresh guava juice,

2 ounces fresh-pressed sugar cane juice,

champagne or sparkling wine

1 tsp Grand Marnier

1/2 ounce chilled orange juice

1/2 tsp simple syrup

champagne or sparkling wine

Garnish with an orange twist.

(Beverly Wilshire Four Seasons, Los Angeles)

Add an orange twist and a fresh sprig of mint as garnish.

(Standard Hotel, New York City)

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Strawberry Champagne Cocktail

1/4 tsp vanilla extract

1/4 tsp freshly squeezed lemon juice

champagne or sparkling wine

2 dashes peach bitters

1/2 cup lemon gelato or sorbet

1/2 to 1 oz chilled vodka (or any white spirits)

Prosecco, sparkling wine or champagne

handful of ice cubes

1 tsp Gomme (or simple syrup)

fresh white grapefruit

Dry champagne (preferably Agrapart Les 7 Cru)

Add the Galliano, Campari & gomme.

Fill the shaker with ice and shake vigorously for 8 seconds. Double strain into champagne flute and top with champagne. Serve straight away.

Chatham Artillery Punch

1 pound superfine sugar

750 ml bottle bourbon or rye

750 ml bottle Cognac

750 ml bottle dark Jamaican rum

3 bottles champagne or sparkling wine

1/2 oz fresh squeezed orange juice

1/4 oz apricot puree

1/4 oz Sence rose nectar

4 oz Charles Heidsieck 1981 Champagne Charlie

Top with cognac and Champagne.

3 drops Angostura bitters

champagne or sparkling wine

1 oz. Aged Cuban-style Rum

1 oz. Strawberry Liqueur (Bols or Fragoli)

1/4 oz. simple syrup

4 whole fresh strawberries

1/2 oz fresh lime juice

1/2 oz honey syrup (2 parts honey well-mixed with 1 part water)

Champagne or Prosecco

1 Honeycrisp apple

1/8 tsp ascorbic acid

Stir and place juice in freezer for 10 minutes, alongside some Champagne flutes.

Pour 2 ounces of the juice into each flute and top with well-chilled champagne or sparkling wine.

Aristocratic Sparkling Punch

1 bottle red burgundy

4 ounces brandy

2 bottles champagne

1 quart sparkling water

1 cup fresh hulled strawberries or raspberries

2 juice oranges

1/2 oz orange juice

1/2 oz simple syrup

(A favorite of Ernest Hemingway)

well chilled Champagne

(Nitecap, New York)

3/4 oz fresh lime juice

1/2 oz simple syrup

1 teaspoon crème de menthe

1 oz chilled sparkling wine

Lime twist, for garnish

(Montana's Trail House, Brooklyn)

1/4 oz grapefruit juice

4 oz chilled sparkling wine

Strawberry Champagne Punch

1 bottle (750ml) Moselle wine

1 quart fresh strawberries, hulled

1/2 bottle (375ml) red Bordeaux wine

2 bottles (750 ml each) Champagne, Cava or sparkling wine, well chilled

London-Style South Side Royale

3 thin slices cucumber

1 ounce simple syrup

3/4 ounce lime juice

(Seelbach Hotel, Louisville, Kentucky)

7 dashes Angostura bitters

7 dashes Peychaud's bitters

4 oz chilled Brut Champagne

1 orange twist, for garnish

(Mauro´s Negroni Club, Munich, Germany)

2/3 oz Cointreau

1-1/2 oz cranberry juice

3-1/2 oz chilled Champagne

Prince of Wales Cocktail

Prince Albert Edward)

1/4 tsp maraschino liqueur

1 dash Angostura bitters

1 tsp simple syrup

1 cube of fresh pineapple (or rinse well if canned)

1/2 ounce Cointreau or Triple Sec

2 splashes maraschino liqueur

1/2 ounce fresh lemon juice

Chilled champagne or sparkling wine

1 flamed orange twist, as garnish

(The Ritz London - Created in tribute of their 110th anniversary)

10 ml Grand Marnier

5 ml peach liqueur

chilled Brut Champagne

3⁄4 ounce homemade grenadine (see recipe below)

1⁄2 ounce fresh lemon juice

Dash of Peychaud’s Bitters

1 cup 100% pomegranate juice,

1⁄2 cup refined cane sugar,

1 tablespoon orange blossom water

Bring ingredients to a boil, then reduce to a simmer to thicken slightly. Stir in orange blossom water. Let cool and keep refrigerated until use.

Great champagnes stand apart, to be enjoyed on their own.

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