9 Champagne Cocktails To Make This Christmas

9 Champagne Cocktails To Make This Christmas

Few celebrations are complete without a glass of fizz. If champagne cocktails are your thing, then from zesty grapefruit creations to a twist on the classic kir royale, here are nine recipes to get the party started…
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Bella Vita: Salvatore Megna, director of mixology at The Stafford

Serves
1
Total Time
5 Minutes
Ingredients
35ml of Beluga vodka (ideally infused with lemongrass)
5ml of Italicus bergamot liqueur
25ml of clementine cordial
15ml of lime juice
Champagne
Method
Step 1

Put all the ingredients, minus the champagne, into a mixing glass.

Step 2

Stir and strain into a glass.

Step 3

Top with champagne.

Sloe Gin And Bubbles: Brookie’s Slow Gin

Serves
1
Total Time
5 Minutes
Ingredients
60ml Brookie’s Slow Gin
Champagne
Method
Step 1

Add two or three ice cubes to a wine glass and pour over the gin.

Step 2

Top with champagne and garnish with strawberry slices.

Rosemary and Citrus Royale: Francesco Braun, mixologist

Serves
1
Total Time
5 Minutes
Ingredients
25ml of Chase pink grapefruit and pomelo gin
60ml of champagne
15ml of lemon juice
15ml rosemary syrup (or cordial)
Fresh rosemary
Method
Step 1

Pour the gin, lemon juice and rosemary syrup into a cocktail shaker and shake well.

Step 2

Double strain in a flute glass.

Step 3

Top with champagne and garnish with a sprig of rosemary.

Bramble Winter Royale: Bottlegreen

Serves
1
Total Time
3 Minutes
Ingredients
Champagne
20ml of Bottlegreen Bramble Cordial
Rosemary
Frozen blackberries
Method
Step 1

Pour champagne into a glass and top with 20ml of cordial.

Step 2

Garnish with rosemary and frozen blackberries.

French 23: Hometipple

Serves
1
Total Time
5 Minutes
Ingredients
15ml of lemon juice
10ml of sweetened Earl Grey tea
35ml of quinoa vodka
Champagne
Method
Step 1

Pour the juice, tea and vodka into a cocktail shaker.

Step 2

Shake vigorously over ice.

Step 3

Strain into a champagne flute or coupe.

Step 4

Top up with champagne.

Chambord Royale: Chambord

Serves
1
Total Time
5 Minutes
Ingredients
125ml of champagne
15ml of Chambord
A raspberry to garnish
Method
Step 1

Pour the champagne into a flute glass.

Step 2

Gently add a splash of Chambord.

Step 3

Garnish with a raspberry to complement.

Fig Royale: Callum Silvester at London Stock

Serves
1
Total Time
20 Minutes
Ingredients
60g of sugar
40g of sherry vinegar
1 whole fig
15ml of sweet vermouth
20ml of vodka
15ml of elderflower cordial
Method
Step 1

Add the sugar, sherry vinegar and one fig to a pan and cook on a medium heat to infuse the fig and melt the sugar. Leave to cool.

Step 2

In a shaker, combine the vermouth, vodka and elderflower cordial with 15ml of the fig syrup.

Step 3

Shake over ice, strain and top with champagne.

101 Cocktail: Colonel Saab

Serves
1
Total Time
5 Minutes
Ingredients
3 dashes of Angostura bitters
1 brown sugar cube
¾ ounces of Johnnie Walker Blue Label whisky
Champagne to top
Method
Step 1

Soak the brown sugar cube in three dashes of Angostura bitters.

Step 2

Add the whiskey, stir lightly, and top with champagne.

Poinsettia Cocktail: The Cocktail Society

Serves
1
Total Time
5 Minutes
Ingredients
75ml of champagne
25ml of Cointreau
75ml of cranberry juice
Method
Step 1

Add the Cointreau to a chilled flute glass and pour the champagne in gently on top.

Step 2

Float the cranberry juice over the champagne to slowly bleed through the drink.

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