Kir Royal

Kir Royal
Ingredients:-
1cl creme de cassis
Champagne
Instructions:
In a flute, pour the cassis first, and then top with champagne. Serve chilled.
Garnish: lemon twist or blackberry .

Champagne:
The most refined sparkling wine, produced only in the Champagne region of France. The region where the champagne is made. Only champagne made in Champagne should be called 'champagne'. On some other similar sparkling wines you may find 'methode champenoise', thus meaning that the wine does not come from the Champagne region, but that it was produced following the method used in Champagne.

Creme de Cassis:
A blackcurrant liqueur made from both infusion and maceration methods; Between 18-25 per cent alcohol by volume.

NEGRONI COCKTAIL

NEGRONI

The Negroni cocktail is made of:

2 cl gin,

2 cl vermouth Rosso,

2 cl Campari bitter.

Method:
Bluid in Mixing glass over cubed ice, 2 cl of Campari, 2 cl of Vermouth Rosso, 2 cl of Gin. Stir ingredients with ice and strain into a Cocktail glass. Garnish with a slice of orange.

It is considered an apéritif, or a pre-dinner cocktail intended to stimulate the appetite. According to the most popular origin story, the Negroni was invented in Florence, Italy in 1919, at Caffè Casoni. It was named for Count Camillo Negroni, the man who invented it by asking a bartender (Fosco Scarselli) to add gin to the Americano, his favorite drink. The word Negroni does not appear in English cocktail guides before 1947.

Alcohol by volume (ABV) = 33.1%*
* Please note: Volume and ABV values are approximations only.

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