Turn it up! Your glass, I mean. Whether it’s your engagement, your wedding day or New Year’s Eve, there’s always something to celebrate with a little (or a lot of) bubbly. Here’s an assortment of champagne cocktails that make us feel all fizzy inside.

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Featured Cocktail: Blood Orange & Pomegranate Champagne Cocktails

Ingredients:

  • 1/4 cup pomegranate juice
  • 1/4 cup freshly squeezed blood orange juice (from about 1 medium blood orange)
  • 1 teaspoon sugar per glass (optional)
  • 2 cups champagne
  • Additional blood orange slices + pomegranate arils for garnish

Method:

Set out 4 champagne flutes – if they’re chilled, all the better! Divide juices between each glass (about 1 tablespoon of each type of juice per glass). Add sugar, if using, and stir until dissolved. Fill the cups almost to the top with Prosecco or champagne. Pour slowly – there will be fizz! Drop in a few pomegranate arils and top with an orange slice. Serve.

Recipe and above photo / KitchenTreaty.com

 

champagne cocktailChampagne Cocktail

Place a sugar cube in a chilled champagne flute, shake in 2 or 3 dashes of bitters (Angostura or Peychaud’s), fill the glass with brut champagne, and squeeze a lemon twist on top.

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

air-mail-cocktailAir Mail

Mix thoroughly with cracked ice in a chilled cocktail shaker, then pour unstrained into Collins glass. Fill with champagne. (Try Puerto Rican rum.)

 

 

 

 

 

mimosaMimosa

Fill champagne flute 2/3 full of fresh-squeezed orange juice and top up with brut champagne.

 

 

 

 

 

 

barbotageBarbotage

Pour a healthy splash of cognac (or any brandy) and Grand Marnier into a chilled champagne flute and fill to the top with Brut Champagne for a slightly stronger, yet still civilized cocktail.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Photos/Lara Robby