Champagne Cocktail
An elegant sparkling cocktail with bitters-soaked sugar and brandy.
- 1 piecesugar cube
- 2 dashangostura bitters
- 4 ozchampagne(chilled)
- ½ ozcognac(optional)
- orange zest, maraschino cherrygarnish
- 1Place a sugar cube in a chilled champagne flute.
- 2Saturate the cube with 2 dashes of Angostura bitters.
- 3Add the cognac.
- 4Gently pour chilled champagne over the sugar cube.
- 5Garnish with an orange zest twist and optional maraschino cherry.
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The Champagne Cocktail is one of the oldest known cocktails dating to the 1860s. It appears in Jerry Thomas's 1862 bartending guide and epitomizes golden age elegance.
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