French 75

Signature cocktail, a French 75 perhaps? 

YOU NEED:

• 1/4 cup brute Champagne or dry sparkling wine
• 3 tablespoons gin
• Juice from 1/2 a lemon
• 1 thin slice of lemon
• 1 cherry (optional) and not a maraschino!

• 1 teaspoon super fine sugar or simple syrup
• About 3/4 cup ice

DIRECTIONS:

1. Muddle a cherry slightly and place in tumbler. Pour Champagne over. Combine gin, lemon juice, ice and sugar in a cocktail shaker and shake vigorously for 15 seconds. Pour over Champagne and cherry.

Original recipe via.