Recipe

December 10, 2014

Orange Twist Champagne Cocktail

Recipe: Eric Vellend

For a signature cocktail with more punch, add 3⁄4 oz. of cognac to the flute before you pour in the sparkling wine. Orange bitters can be found at most gourmet food shops.

Ingredients

  •  1 sugar cube
  • 3 drops orange bitters
  • 5 oz. Cava or other dry (brut) sparkling wine, chilled
  • 1 strip orange zest (no pith)

Directions

Yield: Serves 1

  1.  Soak sugar cube with bitters. Place in champagne flute. Tilt glass and slowly pour in sparkling wine. Garnish with orange zest.
Photographer:

Angus Fergusson

Source:

House & Home December 2013