Champagne

Champagne is a light, mellow and sweet wine. One cup of this wine has a calorie content of 85. Very low and suitable as a drink for dieters when going to a party. Rather than shaking or stirring your way to a finished product, you will simply build the cocktail in your champagne flute. A bitters-soaked sugar cube is dropped into the chilled, effervescent wine, quickly lending its color to the drink along with a thin, aggressive line of bubbles racing from the bottom to the surface.

The Ingredients:

• 1 sugar cube
• 2 to 4 dashes of Angostura bitters
• Champagne (or other sparkling wine), chilled, to top
• Garnish: lemon twist

The Instructions:

• Place a sugar cube on a bar spoon and douse it with the bitters.
• Drop the cube into a chilled Champagne flute or similar glass.
• Fill the glass with Champagne or other sparkling wine.
• Garnish with a lemon twist.