The exclusive version of the French 75 cocktail with Piper-Heidsieck Champagne

The French 75 cocktail with Piper-Heidsieck Champagne

The Perfect Cocktail - The

French 75
Do you also love the taste of Piper-Heidsieck Champagne? Then this opskrift at The French 75 might be for you. We call it: "The Exclusive French 75 Cocktail"

Ingredients

• 10 cl. Piper-Heidsieck Champagne


• 4 cl. Bombay Star of Bombay


• 1.5 cl. lemon juice (freshly squeezed of course, with the lemon squeezer)


• Alternative: 1.5 cl. 1883 Lemon/Citrus syrup


• 1 cl Monin Cane sugar syrup

Procedure

Pour all the ingredients except the champagne into a shaker and shake. Then strain into a Riedel Champagne Glass

Fill with Piper-Heidsieck Essentiel champagne, garnish with a slice of lemon on the rim of the glass and serve immediately.

Garnish - Lemon zest. (Use the traditional lemon peel twisted over the glass to release the bitter citrus oils of the peel)

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The history of the French 75: The first time you could read about the famous cocktail was in the book: The Savoy Cocktail Book from 1930 - but the truth is that mixing champagne with juice was already known many years before that. In 1925, Harry MacElhone, owner of Harry's New York Bar in Paris, had the idea to call the cocktail by the name we know today. The inspiration came from France and their 75 mm Howitzer artillery gun, which was used extensively during World War 1. It works quickly and accurately - a bit like too many tastings of French 75.