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Brunch Mixology Recipes

Mimosa

  • ½ gallon orange juice
  • 1 (750 ml) Sparkling Wine – Korbel Extra Dry recommended
  • 2 shots Orange Liqueur – Grand Marnier recommended

DIRECTIONS

Combine the orange juice and sparkling wine in a large pitcher. Add the orange liqueur and stir thoroughly until well mixed.

Mathilde Sparklers

  • 2 oz. Mathilde liqueur – your choice!
  • sparkling wine – Toso Brut recommended

DIRECTIONS

Pour the Mathilde liqueur into a champagne flute and top with Toso Brut. Garnish with fresh fruit or herbs.

'The Cure' Bloody Mary

Yields 6 Servings. Make ahead and thoroughly chill.

  • 3 cups tomato juice (fresh tomatoes recommended)
  • 3 Tbsp. lemon juice
  • 3 Tbsp. lime juice
  • 1 Tbsp. horseradish  – adjust to taste
  • 1 ½ Tbsp. Lea & Perrins Worcestershire sauce
  • ¼ tsp. garlic powder
  • ¾ tsp. celery salt
  • ¾ tsp. Tabasco sauce
  • ½ tsp. coarse ground black pepper
  • â…“ cup olive brine
  • Tito’s Vodka

Blend together tomato juice, lemon juice, lime juice, horseradish, Lea & Perrins, garlic powder, olive juice and hot sauce and process until smooth. Pour into glass pitcher. Add celery salt and black pepper; adjust to taste. Fill glasses with ice and add vodka – add about an ounce. Top off with your Bloody Mary mixture. Stir. Garnish.*

 

*Get creative. Don’t just add a celery stick. Add pickled green beans and okra, a crispy slice of bacon, a boiled shrimp or crawfish tail, and a lemon or lime wedge.

Aperol Spritzer

Yield: 6 drinks

  • ice cubes
  • 1 (750ml) bottle La Gioiosa Asolo Prosecco, chilled
  • 12 oz. Aperol Aperitivo
  • sparkling water, chilled
  • 6 orange slices

DIRECTIONS

For each drink, fill a 14- to 16-ounce tumbler three-quarters full with ice. Fill each glass two-thirds full with Prosecco, add 2 ounces of the Aperol, a splash of sparkling water, and an orange slice, and stir. Serve ice cold.

Spring Champagne Strawberry Cocktail

Yield: about 6 drinks

 

  • 1 bottle Gloria Ferrer Brut Sparkling Wine
  • 1 cup fresh Cabot, Arkansas strawberries
  • 1 lime

 

DIRECTIONS

Wash and drain the strawberries. Puree strawberries carefully in a blender just until smooth. Don’t overdo the blending. Squeeze juice from the lime and add to the puree. Place strawberry puree in tall glasses (Champagne flute preferred), about an inch high. Pour Champagne over strawberry puree, then give the drinks a stir. Decorate with fresh strawberries and serve.

Cherries Jubilee

  • 12 fresh cherries
  • 3 oz. Makers Mark Bourbon
  • ½ oz. lemon juice
  • dash bitters
  • champagne – Chandon Brut Rosé recommended

DIRECTIONS

Muddle cherries and bourbon in a cocktail shaker. Add lemon juice and shake. Pour into two champagne glasses; top with champagne and dash of bitters.

Earl Grey Tea Cocktail

  • 4 oz. cold Earl Grey tea
  • 1 ½ oz. ROXOR Gin
  • ¾ oz. honey
  • ½ oz. fresh lemon juice
  • 2 lavender sprigs

DIRECTIONS

Dissolve honey in lemon juice in bottom of shaker. Then add tea, gin and ice to the mixture and then shake vigorously. Strain cocktail over a few cubes of ice in a low-ball glass and garnish with lavender sprigs.

Ginger Rye Iced Tea

  • 3 oz. brewed tea, chilled
  • 1 oz. freshly squeezed lemon juice
  • 1 oz. ginger liqueur – Canton Ginger recommended
  • 1 oz. rye whiskey – Bulleit Rye recommended
  • dash Angostura Bitters
  • Garnish: lemon twist

DIRECTIONS

In cocktail shaker filled with ice, combine tea, lemon, ginger liqueur, whisky & bitters. Shake for 12 seconds. Strain into Collins glass filled with ice. Garnish with a lemon twist & serve immediately.

Sparkling Pimm's Cocktail

  • 1 ½ oz. Pimm’s Cup #1
  • 1 oz. Giffard Crème de Mure Blackberry Liqueur
  • ½ oz. Hendrick’s Gin
  • dash Fee Brothers Aromatic Bitters
  • 2 oz. English Style Lemonade
  • 2 oz. La Gioiosa Prosecco

DIRECTIONS

Mix all ingredients and pour over ice into a cocktail glass. Garnish with cucumber spear, blackberries, and a rosemary sprig.

Blackberry Basil Gimlet

  • 2 oz. Barr Hill Gin
  • ¾ oz. lime juice
  • ¼ oz. simple syrup
  • 4-5 fresh basil leaves
  • 3-4 fresh blackberries

DIRECTIONS

Place the basil leaves and blackberries in a cocktail shaker and using a muddler or the back of a wooden spoon, smash the blackberries gently. Fill the shaker with ice and top with the lime juice, simple syrup and gin. Shake to chill and double strain into a coup. Garnish with berry and basil leaf.