Champagne Cocktail

"Michael, You're sitting high up in the Sierra Mountains and you're drinking Champagne cocktails!"

• 1 sugar cube
• Several dashes of Angostura bitters
• ~ 5 oz. chilled champagne

Soak the sugar cube in the bitters at the bottom of a champagne flute. Add the champagne and garnish with a lemon twist. Add 1 ounce of brandy to make a Classic Champagne Cocktail. Replace the champagne with any other base spirit to make that cocktail (e.g. a Gin Cocktail).

Park Place of Brooklyn

Named in honor of our former residence. Inspired by Dale DeGroff's Ritz of New York cocktail.

• 1 oz. cognac
• 1/2 oz. Cointreau
• 1/4 oz. lemon juice
• 1 dash Peychaud's bitters

Shake the ingredients with ice and strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Fill the glass with champagne and toast the beautiful borough of Brooklyn.

French 75

A classic bubbly cocktail.

• 1 oz. gin
• 1/2 oz. lemon juice
• 1/2 tsp. simple syrup

Shake with ice, strain into a cocktail glass, and fill with champagne. Alternately, you may build it in an ice-filled collins glass.

Prince of Dorne

Another cocktail inspired by George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series, and based on the French 75.

• 1 oz. gin
• 1/2 oz. Lillet Blonde
• 1/2 oz. lemon juice
• 1 dash Peychaud's bitters

Shake with ice and strain into a cocktail glass. Fill with champagne.