From classics to unique inspirations, here are 34 Champagne cocktail recipes for that special celebration, New Year's Eve party, or simply to enjoy year-round. There is also no need to splurge on pricey Champagne as these recipes will work equally well with the sparkling wine of your choice!
Before you get started on the recipes here is a quick primer for choosing a sparkling wine for your cocktail.
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How to Choose Champagne For Cocktails
The best Champagne and sparkling wines for cocktails are dry wines to complement the sweetness of the other ingredients. If you like a sweeter cocktail you can of course opt for a sweeter Champagne.
You can also skip the high-end wines as the cocktail mix is most likely to drown out the unique and flavorful qualities that you would get from a flute of sparkling bubbly on its own.
Look for these bottle labels to find dry or sweet sparkling wines:
- Dry: Natural Brut, Extra Brut, Brut
- Sweet: Demi-Sec, Sec, Extra Dry, and Extra Sec
- Sweetest: Doux
Tips for Choosing a Sparkling Wine
- Look for Brut, Extra Brut, or Natural Brut which indicates a dry wine and to minimize the sugar intake and chance of getting a headache.
- If you prefer sparkling wine that is produced from the same method as Champagne (2nd ferment in the bottle over the yeast) look for labels such as Méthode Champenoise or Traditional Method.
- Be careful with the Extra Dry label, it is actually sweeter and contains more sugar than Brut Champagne.
- American sparkling wines, Cava, Prosecco, Crémante, and Espumante are all great substitutes for Champagne - for a fraction of the price. Prosecco leans on the sweeter side of these substitutes.
- Adjust any added sweeteners in the recipe depending on your dry or sweet preference.
- More uncommon Champagne substitutes include sparkling hard cider, spiked seltzer, sparkling sake.
- Mock Champagne substitutes include non-alcoholic champagne and sparkling wine, soda water, and sparkling cider.
Champagne Cocktail Ingredient Ideas
If you're looking to customize your own champagne drink try these champagne mixed drink ingredients.
- Sugar cubes: An easy addition that will add a touch of sweetness and a bubbly effervescence to your drink. This practice is also an old Italian tradition, suggesting that the addition of sweetness helps keep the devil away, making your celebratory moments even more joyful.
- Liqueurs: Liqueurs are an easy addition to enhance your bubbly. Here are a few liqueurs to pair with champagne: Chambord (raspberry liqueur), Grand Marnier or Cointreau (orange liqueurs), Aperol, St-Germain Elderflower, Limoncello, Peach Schnapps or Crème de Cassis (black currant liqueur).
- Liquor: Clear liquors such as vodka and gin tend to be the more popular additions to mix with champagne while rum, brandy, cognac, tequila and bourbon are not too far behind. We've included several champagne recipes below for pairing ideas including the classic French 75 made with gin.
- Bitters: Bitters are great way to add depth and complexity to your sparkling libation. Fruit, citrus and vegetable bitters like orange and cranberry, as well as herb, spice and flower bitters such as lavender, cardamon complement equally well.
- Syrups & Cordials: Add sweetness and flavor with simple syrups, flavored syrups and cordials. Elderflower cordials or flavored syrups like lavender and ginger will enhance the bubbly and add unique and aromatic touches to any sparkling concoction.
- Fruit & Fruit Juices: Fruit and fruit juices offer a burst of flavor and color to any bubbly. Juices like orange, peach, or berry juices bring a fruity sweetness, while more exotic juices such as pomegranate, pineapple or passion fruit add a unique and tropical twist. Fresh fruit such as cucumbers, berries, mango and kiwi will equally add to the flavor and experience. You can also keep your champagne cold with fruit ice.
- Flowers: Infuse subtle floral notes into your champagne cocktail with edible flowers, flower liqueurs, syrups and cordials. Violets, rose petals, elderflower, lavender and hibiscus are a few options to consider.
- Garnishes: Garnishes offer the perfect visual appeal to your champagne creations. Here are some garnish ideas: Citrus peels, twists and curls, edible flowers (elderflower, hibiscus, rose petals), fruits and vegetables (sugared, skewered, slices, dried etc.), whole berry drops, herbs (rosemary, thyme, mint, basil), candied ginger, cinnamon sticks, pomegranate arils, gold or silver leaf, rock candy skewer, edible drink confetti, drink toppers, decorative picks and drink stirrers, mini clothespins, paper umbrellas, ice cubes with flowers, fruit, or herbs
- Cocktail Rimmers: Enhance the flavor while adding a unique and creative touch with a variety of rimmers such as white sugar, colored or flavored sugar, sprinkles, crushed nuts, cookies or candy, chocolate, edible glitter, melted chocolate, gold or silver dust, coconut flakes, pop rocks, or crushed candy cane or peppermint.
34 Champagne Cocktail Recipes
Serve these Champagne cocktails at your next party. From Champagne drinks with bourbon, vodka, gin and tequila to orange juice, fruits and more, these cocktails are sure to inspire and delight.
Vodka Champagne Cocktail Recipe
This easy cocktail recipe has just 4 ingredients, sugar cubes, bitters, vodka and of course Champagne.
Classic Mimosa Recipe
Whether its Christmas morning or Sunday brunch the only thing better than a mimosa is a bottomless mimosa.
Champagne Mojito
This classic cocktail mashup has the usual rum and fresh mint but instead of sparking water, Champagne is substituted for a very potent cocktail!
French 75 (Soixante Quinze)
French 75 is a powerful blend of gin, lemon, sugar, ice and Champagne, so powerful that its very name came from French artillery used during World War I.
Champagne Punch
Champagne punch is a go-to drink for holiday parties and it’s always a crowd pleaser.
Rosé Champagne Cocktail
Now you can Rosé All Day with this mixture of Rosé sparkling wine, rose liqueur, gin, lemon juice and edible rose petals, strawberry slices or raspberries for garnish.
Sparkling Strawberry Sangria
This versatile Sangria can be made with Champagne, Sparkling or Rosé wine, liqueur and fruit.
Easy Bellini Recipe
The Bellini is Italy's answer to the mimosa and is an easy 2-ingredient champagne cocktail: Italian Prosecco sparkling wine and peach purée.
Simple Refreshing French Spritz
The French spritz is made with Champagne, water and St. Germain, a liqueur with elderflower which add floral notes. Perfect for spring and summer or next big party.
Pomegranate Champagne Cocktail
Perfect for holiday parties and New Year's Eve celebrations this easy to make cocktail has pomegranate juice and seeds, Cointreau, sweetened lime juice and your choice of sparkling wine.
Easy Strawberry Mimosa Recipe
It's just one extra ingredient to a mimosa, strawberries. This pink drink is perfect Mother’s Day brunches, wedding or baby showers, bachelorette parties or any fun celebration.
Champagne Margaritas
This drink is everything you would expect including tequila and lime juice plus Champagne and sugar instead of salt rimmed margarita glasses.
Poinsettia Drink (Christmas Champagne Cocktail)
Vibrant and refreshing, a Poinsettia Cocktail is perfect for winter and fall when cranberries are in season and the holiday celebrations are abound.
Kir Royale
A Kir Royale, or Kir Royal is a fruity French blend of Champagne and crème de cassis, a blackcurrant liqueur.
Valentine's Day Gin Champagne Cocktail
This drink is made with gin, Champagne, grenadine and rosewater and is perfect of Valentine's Day, a romantic date or any day you want a great red cocktail.
Bourbon Champagne Cocktail
Kentucky meets bubbly with this bourbon and Champagne cocktail with a little Grand Marnier and a splash of Orange Juice mixed in.
Cucumber-Mint Sparkler
Introducing the most refreshing Champagne drink of all time, this recipes is similar to traditional vodka, cucumber, mint cocktai but it substitutes the sparkling water with Champagne.
Cognac French 75
Just like Arnaud's French 75 Bar in New Orleans, this French 75 is made with Cognac instead of Gin to honor the French history of this drink.
Sunrise Mimosas
Sunrise Mimosa is a mouth watering beverage to pair with weekend brunch made with orange juice, champagne, mango and a splash of pomegranate liqueur.
Cranberry Champagne Cocktail
A cranberry Champagne drink, the ultimate fall and winter cocktail, is made gin, cranberry juice, prosecco and frozen cranberries for garnishment.
New Year’s Eve Champagne Punch
Bring in the New Year with this Triple Sec, blackberry brandy, Chambord, pineapple juice, ginger ale, and Champagne concoction.
Lemon Champagne Cocktail
This simple recipe uses features lemons, elderflower liqueur, vodka, and bubbly and is a light and refreshing cocktail perfect for brunch, bridal showers or on a summer afternoon.
Black Velvet Cocktail
A silky, velvety drink where the effervescence of sparkling wine pairs with a stout beer and is served in a Champagne flute.
Apple Cider Mimosa
Apple Cider Mimosas are a fun twist on the mimosa and great for any fall celebration or Thanksgiving dinner.
Sgroppino (Italian cocktail or dessert)
Sgroppino is a creamy, sweet and citrusy Venetian classic dessert cocktail. This Italian drink contains only 4 ingredients - lemon sorbet, vodka (or grappa), Prosecco and a lemon curl to garnish.
Champagne Moscow Mules
This Champagne Moscow Mule is a fun twist on a classic cocktail simply by topping off this drink with a little bubbly.
Elderflower Champagne Fizz
The Elderflower liqueur adds sweet floral notes to this light and refreshing champagne drink.
CHAMPAGNE PIÑA COLADA
Piña colada meets mimosa with brut champagne, toasted coconut, pineapple and rum. Perfect for parties, showers, Sunday brunch and girls nights.
Classic Aperol Spritz
This classic Italian Aperol spritz is an easy cocktail made with prosecco, Aperol, soda water garnished with orange slices.
Negroni Sbagliato
If you follow House of the Dragon on HBO's TikTok account you might have already heard of this drink. This drink involves substituting the gin in a Negroni for prosecco. Sbagliato means "mistaken" or "broken" in Italian so no need to say "with prosecco."
Red Wine Sangria Champagne Mimosas
This wine and champagne mixed drink is perfect for Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years while fitting equally well during the summer.
Champagne Paloma
This grapefruit, tequila and bubbly concoction is a delicious Cinco de Mayo, spring or summertime cocktail.
Blackberry Lavender Champagne Cocktail
This lavender champagne cocktail has a unique twist with the addition of blackberries.
Types of Sparkling Wine
- Champagne: Champagne is a type of sparkling wine that come from the region of Champagne, France and can only be made using Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, and Pinot Meunier grapes.
- Crémant: Produced in France and these sparkling wines have less carbon dioxide and are less fizzy.
- Cava: Produced in Spain, Cava is typically a dry, sparkling wine - with zesty citrus flavors. A more affordable Champagne substitute.
- Espumante: Produced in Portugal, these sparkling wines are acidic, and have less body than Champagne.
- Proscecco: Produced in Italy and made from Glera grapes, it often has a sweeter side with flavors such as green apple, pear, honeysuckle, and lemon. It is less bubbly than champagne.
- Moscato d'Asti: Produced in Northern Italy these wines are sweet and dry with a light, fizzy quality, not unlike Champagne.
- Sekt: Produced in Germany and known to for its low sweetness and alcohol levels.
- Sparking Rosé: Also known as "blanc de blancs," "blanc de noirs" or rosé sparkling wines, these wines are typically light bodied with a full bouquet of floral aromas.
- American Sparkling Wines: The U.S. has many sparkling wines, and California produces the most. Several U.S. producers label their sparkling wines as "champagne" which the U.S. government allows for brands established on or before March 2006. California sparkling wine is the most well known and is primarily produced with Chardonnay and Pinot Noir grapes but other varieties are used as well. Sparkling wine ranges in style from very dry (natural), dry (brut), and slightly sweet (extra dry) to sweet (sec and demi-sec).
What causes the fizz in Sparkling wine?
Those delightful effervescent bubbles come from carbon dioxide that is produced when the yeast eats up the sugar molecules and leaves carbon dioxide (and ethonal) in its place.
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