TIP OF THE DAY: Red & Green Champagne Cocktails
If your Christmas cocktail of choice is a fizzy one, you don’t need to spring for costly Champagne. Consider more affordable bubblies:
All can be made with ginger ale cocktail for non-drinkers and kids. For Christmas, the two sparkling cocktails below have a red or red and green color palate. Both are named for great Italian artists: |
What’s more Christmassy than a sparkling red cocktail? Photo of the Rossini Cocktail courtesy Chandon USA. |
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RECIPE: ROSSINI COCKTAIL Ingredients For 4 Cocktails |
![]() The Tiziano Cocktail has a bonus treat: frozen grapes. Photo courtesy Harvard Common Press. |
RECIPE: TIZIANO COCKTAIL
Ingredients For 4 Cocktails 1. Add three or four frozen grapes to each flute glass. 2. Pour 1½ ounces of grape juice into each flute. 3. Fill the glasses almost to the top with Prosecco. Serve. This deep red cocktail is one of our favorites at any time of the year. Ingredients |
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Preparation 1. ADD cassis to taste to the bottom of the flute or tulip Champagne glass. 2. GENTLY POUR the sparkling wine down the side of the glass. Stirring breaks the bubbles, so the better option is not to stir (if you must, stir once, very gently). Each is more delicious than the next. Check out the easy recipes.
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