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Bubble cocktails : the taboo of champagne

Champagne is not intended to be mixed or topped with another drink, unlike sparkling or crémant. This practice of modifying champagne is sometimes the way to savor an elixir that is not an overly appreciated champagne, but that one would still like to drink. I do not recommend this approach.

To make a cocktail, whether it is champagne or not, requires good basic ingredients - which does not mean that it will be expensive, but simply, that you have to choose your champagne, its spices, its sugar. cane,…
On the other hand, if you want to create cocktails or enjoy champagnes in a different way, you can count on my participation!
But, never will I take poor quality champagne. Rather drink fruit juice or water !

Champagne: the color of a cocktail

The advantage of champagne in a cocktail is that it brings a very special freshness, and it is also another way to dare cocktails.

Champ-based Cocktails ’can make any champagne lover's hair stand on end. However, thanks to the cheap and good quality champagnes as we can find them today, it is possible to go beyond what was once a sacrilege.

In a few years, champagne has changed status, becoming less expensive, better distributed and above all less reserved for the bourgeois classes in the collective unconscious. Moreover, it is no coincidence that many bars offer champagne cocktails. Yes ! Because it's cool, light and less conventional than field cutting !

Bellini: first champagne cocktail

Generally, bartenders love to pair champagne with fresh fruit or more floral flavors.La recette de base L’exemple du cocktail à base de champagne n’est pourtant pas si récente. Le cocktail au champ’ aurait pour origine le savoir-faire d’un patron de bar italien. C’est en 1948 que Giuseppe Cipriani, le patron-barman du Harry’s Bar de Venise (Italie), décide d’inventer le cocktail à bulles ! Ce dernier fait toujours office de référence, et se nomme le Bellini. 

This champagne cocktail is a tasty blend of fresh peach nectar, cane sugar syrup and champagne.

The ingredients of my personal Bellini recipe

Champagne (Brut preferably, but a dry rosé champagne will be excellent too)

4 cl Peach nectar

1 cl lemon juice

A few drops of cane sugar

Take a glass of champagne that you fill halfway with champagne. In a shaker, combine the cane sugar, lemon and peach nectar. Shake according to the lightness you want to achieve. Carefully pour the mixture into the glass, filling to the brim. Stir very gently so as not to break the champagne bubbles. For decoration, you can cut a slice of peach and lemon that you hang on the rim of the glass. For tasting, the champagne must be very fresh, so consider a champagne bucket.

Good cocktail = Good champagne

Don't think that just any bubble drink will do the trick for your shaker. Their choice must be very precise, for its color and also because there is a different character in each champagne, which would seem to suit better depending on the champagne cocktails.
The best times to succumb to champagne-based cocktails are undoubtedly the seasons bursting with fruit.
But there are so many possibilities that it will be possible to consume it all year round to bring beautiful bubbles of champagne to your festivities.
To find a champagne (brut, dry, vintage ...) that you are going to reserve for your cocktails, I advise you to go and see what the different champagne houses have to offer.

The basics of the champagne cocktail

Important for the realization of your cocktails in the field ', you must bring the essential shaker, a good knife, a cutting board, an apron (essential), spices (ginger, cinnamon ...), cane sugar syrup.
These items are the base, but there are many tools and gadgets to make sublime champagne cocktails, colorful, fruity, architectural or simple and full of identity !

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