# Buck’s Fizz

One part fresh orange to three parts Brut Champagne preserves the wine-forward British branch beside the equal-parts Prosecco Mimosa.

Strength: 9% ABV before dilution

## Ingredients

- 45 ml [Fresh orange juice](https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/fresh-orange-juice.md) — Fine-strain the juice and chill it thoroughly before building.
- 135 ml [Champagne](https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/champagne.md) — Use well-chilled Brut Champagne.

## Glassware

Highball glass

## Method

1. Pour the cold orange juice into a chilled highball glass without ice.
2. Add the Champagne slowly and do not stir.

## Related drinks

- [Death in the Afternoon](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/death-in-the-afternoon.md): Absinthe turns cold Brut Champagne opalescent, aromatic, and formidable in Ernest Hemingway’s stark 1935 contribution to the cocktail canon.
- [Champagne Julep](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/champagne-julep.md): Cold Champagne, mint, and one sugar cube make a light nineteenth-century julep over fine ice, finished with fresh fruit rather than another spirit.
- [Champagne Cocktail](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/champagne-cocktail.md): A bitters-soaked sugar cube focuses Champagne's stream of bubbles, while Cognac gives the drink quiet depth.
- [Kir Royale](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/kir-royale.md): A sparkling Burgundian aperitif in which blackcurrant deepens dry Champagne without suppressing its acidity or fine bubbles.
- [Mimosa](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/mimosa.md): Equal parts fresh orange juice and dry Prosecco make a bright, gently textured sparkling drink whose simplicity leaves nowhere for warm wine or tired citrus to hide.
- [French 75](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/french-75.md): A sparkling gin sour lengthened with Champagne.
- [Seelbach](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/seelbach.md): Bourbon, orange liqueur, and ten dashes of bitters meet Champagne in Adam Seger's genuinely modern 1995 sparkling cocktail.
- [Agua de Valencia](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/agua-de-valencia.md): Fresh Valencian orange, gin, vodka, and Cava make this late-1950s Café Madrid original deceptively bright, dry, and celebratory.

## References

- Canonical page: https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/bucks-fizz
- Photograph: https://stirred.fyi/assets/cocktails/bucks-fizz-be051ea7.webp
- Recipe source: https://euvs-vintage-cocktail-books.cld.bz/Vintage-Cocktail-Books-UK/1930-The-Savoy-Cocktail-Book/194