Name: Champagne Cocktail Cocktail Recipe
Prep time: 3 min
Yield: 1 serving
Ingredients: 1 piece Sugar Cube; 2 dashes Angostura Bitters; Champagne to top; 1 piece Lemon peel

Champagne Cocktail

Description

What it is: One of the simplest historic sparkling cocktails: Champagne, a bitters-soaked sugar cube and aromatic lemon oil.

The story: The Champagne Cocktail belongs to the earliest era of named mixed drinks and appears in nineteenth-century bartending literature. Its enduring trick is visual as well as flavourful: the sugar cube slowly dissolves while releasing bitters and a stream of bubbles through the wine.

Why it works: The sugar rounds Champagne’s acidity without turning it syrupy, Angostura adds warm spice, and expressed lemon peel gives a bright aromatic top note. Keep every component cold so the drink stays lively.

Ingredients

1 piece Sugar Cube
2 dashes Angostura Bitters
Champagne to top
1 piece Lemon peel

Equipment needed

Bar Spoon – Only needed if a very gentle final adjustment is required.

Instructions

Chill a Champagne flute thoroughly.
Place one sugar cube in the base of the flute and saturate it with two dashes of Angostura bitters.
Slowly pour in the chilled Champagne so the foam does not overflow.
Express a strip of lemon peel over the surface to release its oils.
Add the peel as garnish and serve immediately while the wine is lively.

Recommended glassware

Flute Glass (recommended)

A tall, narrow glass designed to preserve bubbles in sparkling cocktails.

150–220 ml Tall, narrow bowl on a stem.

Best for: French 75, Bellini, Mimosa, Kir Royale, sparkling aperitifs.

Garnish: Best with small fruit garnishes, twists, or elegant minimal decoration.

Quick facts

3 mins Easy Approx. 11.5% ABV 1.3 units 105 kcal None

Champagne Cocktail recipe.