Champagne Cocktail
Yield: 1.0
Glass: Champagne flute, 6–8 oz
Scale this recipe
Adjust for any number of servings while keeping the ingredient proportions intact.
classic cocktail
sparkling
built
seeded
Ingredients
- 1 dash Angostura bitters
- 0.25 oz brandy
- 4 oz Champagne or sparkling wine
- Sugar cube
- Lemon twist, for garnish
Instructions
Build in a flute and top with chilled sparkling wine.
Behind the drink
A little history
Mid-1800s
United States
The Champagne Cocktail is one of the oldest named sparkling cocktails, with a version printed in Jerry Thomas’s 1862 bartending guide. Its sugar cube slowly carries aromatic bitters upward through the wine.
Champagne Cocktail history