Laced amongst muddled fresh raspberries as well as blackberries, this Champagne Cobbler Cocktail is crisp as well as refreshing. It's packed amongst the fabulous flavour of fresh berries inwards every sensational sip.
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There's merely something nearly those sparkling bubbles that brand champagne cocktails extra fun as well as refreshing. And on a recent trip to Savannah, Georgia, I came across a really intriguing champagne cocktail ...
A Champagne Cobbler Cocktail ... laced amongst muddled fresh raspberries as well as blackberries.
This cocktail is packed amongst the fabulous flavour of fresh berries inwards every sensational sip.
After a trolley tour of historic Savannah, nosotros had stopped at a rooftop lounge overlooking the Savannah River for an afternoon cocktail break. Because, you lot know ... sight-seeing is difficult work. And calls for frequent "rest" breaks.
As presently every bit I saw the Champagne Cobbler Cocktail on the menu, I knew it was what I was going to order. {Remember the tilt above? I'm a sucker for a champagne cocktail.}
THIS is i fantastic champagne cocktail. Slightly sweet, but non likewise sweet. Refreshing. With the wonderful flavour of fresh raspberry as well as blackberry inwards every sip.
Just perfect for an afternoon sight-seeing break.
Or, for merely evidently sipping at home, of course.
So afterwards our trip, I laid upward out to recreate the Champagne Cobbler Cocktail's berry-and-champagne deliciousness therefore it could hold upward enjoyed at home.
The solely snag I hitting inwards recreating this tasting drinkable was that I was unfamiliar amongst i of its ingredients Cocchi Americano.
After a piddling digging, I figured out that Cocchi Americano is an Italian fortified aperitif wine. Okay ... but I actually wanted to purpose easily-accessible ingredients ... as well as was hopeful I could figure out something to purpose inwards its place.
The solely snag I hitting inwards recreating this tasting drinkable was that I was unfamiliar amongst i of its ingredients Cocchi Americano.
Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 piddling to a greater extent than excavation revealed that Cocchi Americano is flavored amongst Cinchona bark ... which I as well as then read is the master copy source of quinine.
Quinine! ... As a gin & tonic lover, there's something I'm familiar with! ... every bit inwards quinine inwards the shape of tonic water.
So I decided to purpose a splash of tonic H2O inwards my Champagne Cobbler Cocktail version instead of the Cocchi Americano. {Please note, I am inwards no means suggesting Cocchi Americano as well as tonic H2O are fifty-fifty remotely the same or interchangeable. So Cocchi Americano lovers ... no loathe "mail," please.}
With my cistron dilemma solved, I laid upward nearly muddling beautiful fresh berries to serve every bit the base of operations of my Champagne Cobbler Cocktail ...
And finally, kicked dorsum to savour my afternoon at-home champagne cocktail break.
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Champagne Cobbler Cocktail
Source: A Tracey creation, inspired yesteryear The Bohemian Hotel, Savannah, GA
(Printable recipe)
IngredientsSource: A Tracey creation, inspired yesteryear The Bohemian Hotel, Savannah, GA
(Printable recipe)
- 3/4 oz. orangish liqueur {Triple Sec, Grand Marnier, or Cointreau}
- 2 oz. tonic water
- 6 oz. Champagne or sparkling wine
- 2 raspberries
- 1 small blackberry
- Muddle two raspberries as well as 1 small-scale blackberry inwards a tall cocktail glass. Fill drinking glass amongst ice.
- Add orangish liqueur as well as tonic; stir. Add sparkling wine; stir gently.
- Garnish amongst additional berries, if desired.
Makes 1 cocktail.
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