5 Wine Cocktails For A Sparkling Mother’s Day

There is something about a bottle of bubbly that instantaneously puts you in a celebratory mood. So, what better occasion than Mother’s Day to pop a bottle? Tell your mum to sit back, relax and enjoy a tipple. When you’re done raising a toast to the superwoman in your life, you can settle down with a glass of bellini or mimosa and catch up over brunch. .

Here are our picks of five delicious sparkling cocktails that will are perfect not just for Mother’s Day but every day.

1. Bellini

Ingredients:

1. 140 ml of Champagne
2. 15 ml Drillaud Crème de Peach Liqueur
3. 100 ml Peach Purée

Method:

• Pour the peach puree into the bottom of a flute.
• Pour champagne into the glass and then top up with peach liqueur.
• Stir lightly and serve.

Recipe by Bar Bellini at Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc, France

2. Punch Romaine

Ingredients:

1. 25ml white rum
2. 20ml white wine10ml simple syrup
3. 10ml lemon juice
4. 20ml fresh orange juice
5. 1 egg white
6. 75ml Moët & Chandon Brut Impérial

Method:

• In an ice-filled cocktail shaker, combine egg white, rum, wine, simple syrup, lemon and orange juice and shake with cubed ice.
• Mold crushed ice into a ball and place in a large coupe glass, and pour drink around it.
• Top it with champagne. Garnish with orange peel.

Recipe by Moet & Chandon

3. Imperial 1869

Ingredients:

1. 15ml Agave Syrup
2. 2 dashes of grapefruit bitters
3. 1 dash orange flower water
4. 100ml Moët & Chandon Brut Impérial

Method:

• Pour all the ingredients into the coupe glass and top with champagne.
• Garnish with edible flowers.

Recipe by Moët & Chandon

4. Strawberry-Lychee Cocktail

Ingredients: 

1. 20ml gin
2. 20ml hibiscus and rose syrup
3. 20ml litchee juice
4. Strawberry Fruzzante

Method:

• Stir all ingredients with ice and strain into a coupe glass
• Top up with Strawberry Fruzzante.
• Garnish with an ice block and rose petals.

Recipe by Ami Shroff for Fruzzante

5. French 75 

Ingredients:

1. 30 ml gin
2. 15 ml Lime Juice
3. 15 ml simple Syrup
4. 60 ml sparkling Wine
5. Twisted Lime Peel

Method:

• Add gin, lime juice and simple syrup to a shaker.
• Shake well, strain in a flute.
• Top up with sparkling wine.

Recipe by The Little Easy, Mumbai