Prince of Wales

Sweet champagne, muddled pineapple, and warming rye whiskey form the basis for this pre-Prohibition era cocktail.

Sweet champagne, muddled pineapple, and warming rye whiskey form the basis for this pre-Prohibition era cocktail. The recipe for this version comes from New York City bar and restaurant The Beagle.

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Prince of Wales

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RUB sugar cube with lemon zest, coat with dashes of bitters and drop cube into chilled glass. POUR chilled cognac and liqueur over soaked cube and TOP with chilled champagne.

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COAT sugar cube with bitters and drop into glass. POUR chilled cognac over soaked cube, then TOP with champagne.

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SHAKE all ingredients with ice and strain into ice-filled glass. TOP with lemonade.

The Classic Champagne Cocktail

One of the oldest cocktails, dating back to at least the mid-1800s, the Champagne Cocktail consists of a sugar cube douched in aromatic bitters dropped into the base of a glass.

Champagne is a sparkling wine exclusively from within the tightly defined Champagne region of France. It is made from Pinot Noir, Chardonnay and Pinot Meunier and is naturally.

Bitters are alcoholic beverages prepared with herbs, spices, roots, fruits and peels infused in alcohol or glycerin. Popular ingredients include gentian, quinine and orange peel.

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Liqueurs and alcoholic cordials are sweetened alcoholic drinks made by mixing or redistilling spirits with flavourings and colourings. Within the EEC a ‘liqueur’ must have an.

Cognac is a fine French brandy (eau-de-vie) from the region that surrounds the little town of Cognac in southwest France. Like champagne, its mere name suggests luxury and indeed.

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Prince of Wales

If I’m still swooning over David Wondrich’s new book, Imbibe! , it’s only partly because it’s a damn fine read. In addition to that, though, it has plenty of recipes that have had me breaking out the shaker over the last couple of weeks, often with very good luck.

The Prince of Wales’ Cocktail grabbed my attention right away. Part of the reason was because the illustration accompanying it is from an old catalog (I assume) detailing several types of champagne taps, which could be screwed through the cork of a champagne bottle and used to dispense the bubbly as needed. [On a side note — why the hell can’t we get stuff like that nowadays? Or if we can, where is it — I sure haven’t seen it.] As Wondrich writes, champagne was being splashed into every drink in sight back in the 1880s; this drink, which he sources from Private Life of King Edward VII, from 1901, is one of the success stories.

But the real appeal was the mix of flavors this drink promises, from the spicy zip of the rye to the bright fruitiness of fresh pineapple to the crisp effervescence of the champagne (I suppose that’s a sensation rather than a flavor, but you get my drift). It’s a decadent recipe to read, and the drink is obviously the work of someone who takes their refreshment very seriously, and has plenty of time and resources to do so. A prince, in other words.

Prince of Wales’ Cocktail (adapted from Imbibe!, by David Wondrich)

Add sugar and bitters to a mixing glass and dissolve in a splash of water (or use simple syrup). Add rye, maraschino and pineapple chunk, pile in a bunch of ice and shake hard to crush the pineapple. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass — I think this one fairly cries out for a coupe — add champagne, and twist a piece of lemon peel over the drink.

Shazam, is that tasty. I’ve used both the bonded Rittenhouse and Michter’s in this drink with good effect, and a, um, affordable cava that didn’t seem to do it any harm. Wondrich writes that you can use a piece of canned pineapple in lieu of fresh (just be sure to shake off the syrup first). I used a couple of squares of frozen pineapple from Trader Joe’s; there’s no sugar added, and when thawed the fruit has a better texture, flavor and consistency than the canned stuff, so I’d suggest that as a good alternative to hacking up a fresh one or breaking into a can, if you have the option.

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Isn’t it funny how there’s a handful of drink names get applied to multiple recipes that aren’t just variations but obviously new drinks. This makes the third distinct Prince of Wales to cross my path, and I haven’t even tried digging. There’s Gilmore’s lemon, brandy, strawberry, and Champagne mixture, and then what I’d always assumed was the ‘standard’ Prince of Wales, cognac, triple sec, bitters, and Champagne. And now this one… how funny that the Champagne is the common denominator.

Oh, and the Trader Joe’s pineapple is excellent, agreed.

WRT champagne taps, do a search on eBay or just a straight google search and you’ll see plenty of them for sale.

This recipe is also absolutely new for me! There are plenty of recipes but until now, I saw champagne and cognac (or Grand Marnier which is cognac liqueur) as LWM.

The crushed pineapple also doesn’t look really classic and it is also the first time I saw referring to a Prince of Wales!

Shazam is right!

What a lovely cocktail.

[…] thought I’d fix up a couple of Prince of Wales cocktails tonight, a fizzy drink for a fizzy evening. I followed Wondrich’s recipe to the […]

[…] and that I liked the one that had the word “apothecary” in it. My friend Bene had a Prince of Wales (whiskey, maraschino, champagne, pineapple) which was too sugary for my […]

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¾ oz Cognac ¾ oz Cognac ¾ oz Cognac 2.25 cl Cognac 22.5 ml Cognac 0.75 oz Cognac
4 oz Champagne 4 oz Champagne 4 oz Champagne 12 cl Champagne 120 ml Champagne 4 oz Champagne
Dash Angostura Bitter Dash Angostura Bitter Dash Angostura Bitter Dash Angostura Bitter Dash Angostura Bitter Dash Angostura Bitter
¼ oz DOM Benedictine ¼ oz DOM Benedictine ¼ oz DOM Benedictine 0.75 cl DOM Benedictine 7.5 ml DOM Benedictine 0.25 oz DOM Benedictine

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Pour sugar, warm water, and a dash of bitters to a cocktail glass, and stir to dissolve. Add ice to a cocktail shaker and pour in sugar mixture. Pour in whiskey, cherry liqueur, and a chunk of pineapple. Shake well to crush pineapple, then strain into a chilled glass. Top with sparkling wine and garnish with a twist of lemon.

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