Buck Up Your Bubbly: Five Champagne Cocktails for the New Year

This drink takes its name from a military cannon, because after downing one of these, you’ll feel like you got blasted by one. With this classy cocktail in hand, you’ll feel like you should be in a prohibition-era speakeasy dressed to the nines.

• 5 ounces Brut champagne


• 2 ounces London dry gin


• 1/2 ounce lemon juice


• 1

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• teaspoon sugar

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Beer before liquor, never sicker. Regardless of your belief in the adage, if you’re doing your darndest tonight to stick to one type of booze, beer drinkers can whip up a Black Velvet and keep the streak going.

• Pour half a glass of your favorite stout beer
• Top up slowly with champagne

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Dream of summer on the water with this peach-infused drink. The Bellini was invented at the famed Venice watering hole Harry’s Bar, frequented by Ernest Hemingway and other luminaries. If you’re hard pressed to find peach purée, we hear a shot of peach schnapps works just fine.

• 3 ounces champagne (for a truly Italian

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• experience, use the Venetian sparkling wine called Prosecco)


• 1 ounce white peach purée

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Another cocktail from the French, the Kir Royale’s name is fancier than its ingredients. The tartness of the crème de cassis – a spiffy name for blackcurrant liqueur – complements the sweetness of the bubbly.

• 6 ounces champagne
• 1/2 ounce crème de cassis

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Ring in 2011 at the forefront of style. The official color of the upcoming year is honeysuckle, a pinkish-orange. The color of the drink reflects the optimism you need to ditch those winter blues. Blizzard? What blizzard? Well, maybe if you drink enough of them...

• 3 ounces champagne


• 1 ounce pomegranate juice (cranberry

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• juice works as a worthy substitute)

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