Our Top 5 Champagne Cocktails

Though Champagne is perfect on its own, an extra bit of colour and punch is always welcome. We trialled a number of Champagne cocktails at our team parties over the years, and here are our favourites. They are fun, easy to make, and big crowd-pleasers. Serve them in Champagne flutes, coupe glasses, or universal wine glasses.

Spiced Orange Champagne Punch

Makes as many as you'd like

Ingredients

250ml orange juice
3 tbsp sugar
2 cinnamon sticks
2 star anise pods
Champagne, for topping

Method

  1. Heat the orange juice, sugar, cinnamon sticks and star anise pods over low heat for 5 minutes.
  2. Allow to cool and pour into each Champagne flute or coupe glass until 1/3 full. Top with champagne. 

Classic French 75

Makes 2, scales up easily

Ingredients

30ml lemon juice
2 tsp simple syrup (recipe below)
60ml gin
Lemons, for garnish
Ice
Champagne

Method

  1. Make simple syrup if you don't already have it: Place 110g granulated sugar and 95ml water in a saucepan and heat gently until the sugar is thoroughly dissolved. Remove from heat and allow to cool. Store in a glass jar or bottle. (Yields approx 150ml; it will keep in the fridge for months, and can be used for future cocktails, coffee, and more.)
  2. Peel a lemon into thin strips and set the strips aside. Cut the peeled lemon in half and juice. Twist each strip around a straw or a chopstick to create a spiral that holds its shape.
  3. Add 60ml gin, 30ml lemon juice and 2 tsp of simple syrup in an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Shake and strain into 2 Champagne flutes or coupes and top with Champagne. Add the lemon peel garnish and serve.

Christmas Pomegranate Cocktail

Makes as many as you'd like

Ingredients

Pomegranate arils, or pomegranate juice
Champagne
Blueberries, for garnish

Method

  1. Blend pomegranate arils in a blender, and pour through a sieve and collect the juice
  2. Fill a Champagne flute or coupe by a third with pomegranate juice and top up with champagne. Decorate with a couple of skewered blueberries.

Cherry and Thyme Champagne Cocktail

Makes 2

Ingredients

225g jar of cocktail cherries
A few sprigs of thyme
Champagne

Method

  1. Drain the juice from the jar of cocktail cherries into a saucepan. Simmer the juice and a few sprigs of thyme over low heat for 5 minutes. Take off the heat and allow to cool.
  2. Put 2 tbsp of infused cherry syrup into each glass and add a cherry. Fill the rest of the glass with Champagne and add a sprig of thyme to garnish.

Festive Cranberry Bellini

Makes as many as you'd like

Ingredients

300g packet of fresh cranberries
1 tbsp of caster sugar
Champagne, enough to fill the glass and stir carefully

Method

  1. Heat 300g of fresh cranberries over low heat. Add 1 tbsp of caster sugar (add more if you want it sweeter). Keep cooking and stirring until you create a paste-like consistency. Allow to cool and put 1-2 teaspoons of the paste into each glass. Add Champagne to fill the glass and stir carefully.

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