Cheers to Mom

As we celebrate Mother's Day on Sunday, many brunches or dinners will include some kind of adult beverage. From the simple to the elegant, we'll review a few options for you here.

Mimosa

Ingredients
Sparkling Wine, Cava, Cremant, Prosecco or Champagne (1 750ML bottle)
Orange Juice (1 carton)
Triple Sec (optional)

Fill half of a champagne flute with chilled sparkling wine (about an ounce) and top off with chilled orange juice (again about 2 ounces), gently stir. If you'd like to add triple sec, just a splash to taste works out fine. For added flare, slice up a strawberry to decorate the rim of each flute. Enjoy!

The latest trend in serving sparkling wine is the move from the flute to a standard white wine glass. Whichever you prefer, just keep the ratio intact.

Your options are wide-open with the sparkling wine. Your budget may prefer one over the other, and our helpful Joe Canal's staff will help you find the right product for your Mother's Day celebration.

The Blushing Lady

The Blushing Lady is a perfectly designed fruity cocktail that is the right blend of tropical flavors and looks stunning when served in a sugar-rimmed glass. It's a great cocktail for almost any occasion, as it blends sweet, sour, and tart flavors.

Ingredients
2 ounces Tito's vodka
1 ounce PAMA Pomegranate Liqueur
1 ounce pink grapefruit juice
Lemon wedge for garnish
Coarse sugar for rimming

Rub a wedge of lemon around the rim of a cocktail glass and dip the glass into a plate of coarse sugar. Set it aside.
Pour the remaining ingredients into a cocktail shaker with ice.
Shake and strain into the prepared glass.
Garnish with a lemon wedge.

Bellini

The story behind the Bellini is that is was created some time before World War II at Harry's Bar in Venice, Italy by bartender Giuseppe Cipriani. It was named after a favorite painter, Giovanni Bellini. Originally, the Bellini used sparkling Italian wine and is still made that way in Italy, elsewhere it is often made with Champagne.

Ingredients
2 ounces peach juice or peach puree
4 ounces Champagne (or other sparkling wine)

Pour the peach juice or peach puree into a Champagne flute or white wine glass.
Slowly add the Champagne/sparkling wine.

Rosy Rum Cosmo

1 1/2 ounces Bacardi Limon Rum
1/2 ounce triple sec orange liqueur
1 Tablespoon lime juice
1/2 Tablespoon cranberry juice
Fresh mint leaves for garnish


Pour the rum, triple sec, lime juice and cranberry juice into a cocktail shaker with ice.
Shake well.
Strain into chilled cocktail glass.
Garnish with the mint leaf.  

In & Out Lemontini

You'll note that this recipe includes Villa Massa Limoncello. if you don't already have this delicious Italian after-dinner delight, we strongly recommend you try a bottle. Keep it in your freezer; a small glass of lemoncello alone is a wonderful dessert or palate-cleanser.

Ingredients:
3 ounces New Amsterdam unflavored vodka
Splash of Villa Massa Limoncello
Lemon twist for garnish

Pour a splash of lemoncello into a frozen cocktail glass.
Swirl the liqueur around in the glass until all surfaces are coated.
Pour vodka into a cocktail shaker filled with ice, then shake.
Throw away any excess lemoncello in the glass. Or pour it into another glass and enjoy it.
Strain the shaken vodka into the coated cocktail glass.
Garnish with a lemon twist.

Melon Cucumber-tini

2 ounces Grey Goose Melon vodka
1/2 ounce simple syrup
Fresh cucumber


Muddle a few slices of cucumber over ice in a mixing glass.
Pour the muddled cucumber, vodka and simple syrup into a cocktail shaker with ice.
Shake well.
Strain into a chilled cocktail glass.
Garnish with a cucumber slice.

Happy Mother's Day to all!