French 75
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Ingredients
How to make
Serve in a flute glass
Prepare
- 1 Select and pre-chill a FLUTE GLASS.
- 2 Prepare garnish of lemon zest twist.
Method
- 3 STIR powdered sugar with lemon juice in base of shaker until sugar dissolves.
- 4 Add gin and SHAKE with ice.
- 5 FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.
- 6 TOP with sparkling wine and briefly stir. (Or pour half the sparling wine into the glass first to help reduce foaming and eliminate need to stir.)
Garnish
- 7 EXPRESS lemon zest twist over the cocktail and use as garnish.
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Flavour profile
History
Fresh, clean, sophisticated – dangerously quaffable. The use of powdered sugar adds an attractive sherbet note. Sugar syrup also works well, use 7.5ml/0.25oz in place of sugar.
Before the 1980s or 1990s, the French 75 was served as a long cocktail in a Collins glass filled with ice. This presentation in a flute has become the standard, while the Collins version is now largely forgotten.