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The champagne cocktail is a classic libation to ring in the new year. It also works wonderfully at holiday parties with its festive hue. AJ Rathbun, GoodLife Report?s resident mixologist and author of Champagne Cocktails: 50 Cork-Popping Concoctions and Scintillating Sparklers has provided us with some interesting ways to jazz up your champagne toast.
If you want to trace the word sparkle back to the Old Norse sparkr, I certainly won?t peep about it. Or, if you go back to the Old English spearca, and want to deliver a point, I?ll follow your point and even read the footnotes. If you, perhaps, would rather debate the relative merits of how this sparkling drink was once shaken a bit and so should be still, I?ll listen calmly to your arguments and nod my noggin reflectively even if I do happen to disagree. When reclining in two large chairs at the edge of the dance floor, if you?d rather posit that Peychaud?s bitters or Angostura bitters or your very own house bitters goes better than orange bitters in this, I?ll weigh out each possibility, one glass at a time, while you state your liquid position. Truth be told, I?ll be happy to contemplate any of your talking points on this simple and simply delicious classic, as long as you d...