Classic Champagne Cocktail

Classic Champagne Cocktail

1 bottle of Dry, Extra Dry or Brut Champagne or Sparkling wine
Sugar cubes
Angostura Bitters

drop 1 sugar cube in the bottom of a Champagne flute, add 3 dashes of Angostura bitters, top with Champagne. 

HAPPY NEW YEAR! 

The first time I had this classic version I was 32 and living on the east coast. I was at the bar at The Ryland Inn, a culinary wonderland in Whitehouse Station, New Jersey. We had stopped off to have a cocktail before we were seated for dinner and, unusually enough, I was stumped on what I wanted as an aperitif. The bartender recommended this to me and I was instantly a lover of this elegant and simple drink. It is the liquid equivalent to stately posture & wearing pearls. 

The Ryland Inn



Film Buffs Enjoy this trivia:

In the film "An Affair to Remember" 1957 Deborah Kerr's character asks a champagne cocktail at the bar in the ship she travels with Cary Grant. In the Woody Allen film "Match Point", Emily Mortimer orders a champagne cocktail at a restaurant with Jonathan Rhys Meyers.

In the Francis Ford Coppola/Mario Puzo film The Godfather Part II FRANK PENTANGELI says-"MICHAEL, your sitting high up in the Sierra mountains. And your drinkin' - uh, what's he drinkin'?" WILLIE CICCI says "Champagne", FRANK PENTANGELI replies "Champaign, Uh, Champaign Cocktails -- and you're passing judgment on how I run my Family."