What is your favourite gin or champagne based cocktail?

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Or mocktail for the non drinkers and children?

Keen to have fun at Christmas and new year and keen to make guests feel welcome !!

Open to any ideas - don't have to be Christmassy ones!

thanks !

Am sure these would work equally well with champagne instead of prosecco

My favourite is the last one - prosecco, gin & elderflower

Sloe gin and prosecco/champagne make a lovely Christmassy Bellini.

If it counts as a cocktail, I like Queen Mother's Ruin; gin and Dubonnet. Apparently it was a favourite drink of hers, posher than plain Mother's Ruin.

i love a singapore sling

I like gin with rose lemonade, and also gin with Rekorderlig passion fruit cider is gorgeous.

Traditional Champagne cocktail:

Sugar lump with a couple of drops of angostura bitters.

Covered with a little brandy.

Topped up with champagne to the top.

Never bettered.

If you want something a bit less alcoholic you can't beat a Bellini - champagne and peach juice.

You can do a non-alcoholic version for kids with sparkling apple juice.

Bellini over here please!

Tom Collins.

Ginny, lemony lusciousness in a tall frosted glass.

If you want something a bit less alcoholic you can't beat a Bellini - champagne and peach juice.

You can use ellas kitchen baby food purees- I use both peaches and strawberries to make lovely bellinis.

In a pouch so you can keep it in the fridge when open

Thank you for such wonderful suggestions!

Gin and French: a double measure of gin and a single measure of French Vermouth over crushed ice.Bliss.

A BIL often gives us Kir - a little Cassis (alcoholic Ribena!) topped up with Fizz.

My favourite is the traditional Champage cocktail as per Grumpy above but you add a generous dash of grand mariner to it to top it off plus some curled orange peel to decorate.

You could also mix the two. The Edinburgh gin company do flavoured find; elderflower, raspberry and rhubarb & ginger to name three.
I just add a shot of one to a glass of champagne/prosecco.

Gin sours. Or mix both and have a French 75!

Gettinglikemymother that's a Kir Royals. Enjoy!

Ooh, what's a French 75?? 😆🍸

It's gin, champagne, lemon juice and sugar!

I generally don't drink gin but I love a bramble.

I also don't taint by champagne by putting anything in it...tis wrong.

Someone posted on here last year about a 'Saint 75', which, from memory is sugar syrup, a shot of vodka, Saint Germain liqueur, topped up with champagne, and a maraschino cherry in the bottom. I could be wrong about the vodka, but it worked for me :D Still have half a bottle of the st G left from last year, and I'm looking forward to it!

Club soda, St Germain elderflower liqueur and champagne/Prosecco

Gin, cranberry juice, a little orange juice, soda, fresh cranberries

Those are the two I'm serving at our Xmas party this year

Negroni: one part each gin, campari and vermouth rosso.

Or you cant beat a classic gin martini, ice cold with 3 olives.

Sidecar: brandy, triple sec (or cointreau) and lemon juice!

Loving the idea of squirting Ella's fruit puree into a glass of prosecco!