New Year’s Eve calls for something effortlessly elegant, and the Classic Champagne Cocktail always delivers. Light, celebratory and beautifully simple, it’s the kind of drink that feels right at midnight — bubbles rising, glasses clinking and the year turning over.
INGREDIENTS
1 sugar cube
¼ tsp bitters
10ml cognac
75ml cold champagne from BWS
strip of orange peel
DIRECTIONS
Step 1
Put the sugar cube on a small dish, then drizzle with the bitters, turning a few times so it’s fully coated
Step 2
Drop the cube into a champagne flute, then top up with the cognac. Slowly pour over the champagne.
Step 3
Twist the orange peel over to express the oils, then discard or loop around the stem of the glass.
