The Champagne Cocktail is so sleek and simple and elegant in profile that it almost seems wrong to call it a cocktail at all. But the name is accurate, and a cocktail, in both theory and soul, it is.
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Reprinted with permission from 3-Ingredient Cocktails: An Opinionated Guide to the Most Enduring Drinks in the Cocktail Canon by Robert Simonson, copyright © 2017. Published Ten Speed Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC.
Photography credit: Colin Price © 2017
Ingredients
- Champagne to top
- 3-4 dashes Angostura bitters
- 1 sugar cube
- lemon twist for garnish
Servings: cocktail
Instructions
- Place the sugar cube at the bottom of a Champagne flute and saturate it with bitters. Slowly fill the glass with Champagne. Garnish with the lemon twist—the more ornamental, the better.
Recipe Notes
Visit FineCooking.com for a Test Kitchen tip on how to make a pretty lemon twist.
