3 cocktails (and their mocktail version) to celebrate the arrival of summer

The elderberry cocktail: Hugo Spritz

The ingredients to prepare a Hugo Spritz

• 15ml elderflower liqueur (St-Germain)
• 6 mint or lemon balm leaves
• A few ice cubes
• 125ml (1/2 cup) prosecco
• 15 ml of sparkling water
• 1 wedge of lemon, lime or lime

How to prepare a Hugo Spritz

Pour the elderberry liqueur into a glass, then the mint leaves, before pounding them coarsely with a cocktail pestle. Then add the ice cubes, then the prosecco, and top up with sparkling water, before decorating with a slice of lemon.

The mocktail version of the Hugo Spritz

All you have to do is mix a base of elderflower syrup in a glass (you can find it at Bacanha or Ikea, for example) with sparkling water, before decorating with a slice of lemon.

The essential cocktail: Aperol Spritz

Ingredients to prepare a Spritz

• 6 cl of prosecco
• 4 cl of Aperol
• 1 drop of sparkling water (San Pellegrino for purists)
• A few ice cubes
• 1 slice of orange for garnish

How to prepare an Aperol Spritz

In a glass, pour the 6 cl of prosecco (3 volumes), the 4 cl of Aperol (2 volumes) and 2 cl of sparkling water (1 volume), before filling with ice cubes, stirring a little, and garnish with a slice of orange.

For those in a hurry or wanting a change from the spritz, you can also go to the Chandon Garden Spritz. This drink is based on a sparkling wine grown by Chandon in Argentina, awarded as the best wine in its category at the 2020 edition of the World Championships of Champagne and Sparkling Wines (CSWWC). To this base are added extracts of aromatic plants and orange peel which give it its characteristic flavour, more floral than a classic Spritz, and its pale pink colour.

The mocktail version of the Spritz

• 1 orange (why not blood)
• 1/2 glass of non-alcoholic sparkling wine
• 1/2 glass of sparkling water
• A few sprigs of rosemary, thyme or basil leaves (fresh or frozen)
• A few ice cubes

All you need to do is slice a slice of orange to keep for decoration and squeeze the rest to get the fresh juice, then pour it into a cocktail glass, roughly chop your fresh or frozen aromatic herbs, add the non-alcoholic sparkling wine, the sparkling water, and top up with ice cubes, then decorate with the orange slice.

The cocktail full of lesbian tension: Negroni Sbagliato

The ingredients to prepare a Negroni Sbagliato

• 3 cl of Campari (or other bitters)
• 3 cl sweet vermouth (or other amber)
• 3 cl of prosecco or at your discretion (if you add more than 1/3 it will make everything less sweet)
• An orange slice for decoration and taste
• A few ice cubes

How to make a Wrong Negroni

You may have seen this little video where Emma D’arcy comes from House of the Dragon she replies seductively to Olivia Cooke who asks her during an interview what her favorite drink is: ” A Negroni… Wrong, with Prosecco inside. Well, to make it it’s like a negroni, only you replace the gin with prosecco (we call it ” wrong which means accidental in Italian, because the story goes that a bartender once made a mistake in the composition of a negroni, and that the result was nothing but delicious).

Simply pour 1/3 Campari, 1/3 Vermouth and 1/3 Prosecco into a glass, then roughly extract the scented molecules from the orange peel by folding it back on itself near the glass. Then add a slice of orange to the glass for decoration and garnish with a few ice cubes.

The non-alcoholic version of the Negroni Sbagliato

• 1 glass of non-alcoholic sparkling wine
• 1 dash of cherry syrup (the one from the jars of cherries works very well)
• 1 slice of orange, lemon or grapefruit (the bitterness of the latter will better balance the sweetness of the cherry)

All you have to do is mix everything in a glass and fill it with a few ice cubes.

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