The Friday Cocktail: French 75
I’ve previously written about my favorite champagne cocktails, but I felt the French 75 was worth revisiting just in time for New Year’s Eve! My first time trying this cocktail was at Mandrake in Los Angeles a year ago just before the new year, and I was instantly hooked! I love that this cocktail isn’t overly sweet, and just boozy enough with the addition of gin.
French 75
Makes one cocktail
Ingredients:
2 ounces London dry gin
1 teaspoon superfine sugar
1/2 ounce lemon juice
5 ounces Brut champagne
Instructions:
Shake well with cracked ice in a chilled cocktail shaker, then strain into a Collins glass half-full of cracked ice and top off with champagne.
(recipe from Esquire)
Happy New Year!
H
