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“Cherry” Glad it’s 2021! Cocktail

It’s a little sweet and a little sour just like 2020 was! Salute to 2021!

Mary Matthews

Makes 2 cocktails
Ingredients

  • 2 ounces cherry simple syrup
  • 10 ounces champagne (or prosecco)
  • Cherries to garnish
  • 1 Lemon (zested and juiced)
  • 1/4 Cup Sugar

Instructions

  1. Zest the lemon making sure to only zest the yellow outside no white pith, and combine with the 1/4 cup sugar. This will be your rimming sugar. Reserve lemon for juice later
  2. Dip half of the outside of a champagne glass into water and press into lemon sugar to create a half rim.
  3. Pour one ounce of the cherry simple syrup, and 1 ounce of lemon juice into the champagne glass and top up with chilled champagne.
  4. Garnish with cherries