# Champagne

A protected French sparkling wine made in the Champagne region by a second fermentation in bottle.

Parent category: [Sparkling wine](https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/sparkling-wine.md)

Alcohol: 12% ABV

## Cocktails

- [Air Mail](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/air-mail.md): Lightly aged rum, lime, and concentrated honey form a bright Cuban sour before Champagne turns it into a long, sparkling drink over ice.
- [Black Velvet](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/black-velvet.md): Equal parts chilled stout and Champagne combine roasted malt, wine acidity, and a remarkably soft, persistent texture.
- [Buck’s Fizz](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/bucks-fizz.md): One part fresh orange to three parts Brut Champagne preserves the wine-forward British branch beside the equal-parts Prosecco Mimosa.
- [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.
- [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.
- [Chicago Cocktail](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/chicago-cocktail.md): Cognac, curaçao, and bitters meet a restrained Champagne top beneath a sugar-crusted rim, placing this 1922 drink between the Champagne Cocktail and Brandy Crusta.
- [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.
- [French 75](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/french-75.md): A sparkling gin sour lengthened with Champagne.
- [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.
- [Prince of Wales (1887)](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/prince-of-wales-1887.md): The 1887 rye branch crushes pineapple into a lightly sweetened whiskey cocktail and crowns it with Champagne.
- [Russian Spring Punch](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/russian-spring-punch.md): Cassis and lemon give vodka a vivid blackcurrant-sour core before dry sparkling wine stretches it into a cold, dangerous party drink.
- [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.
- [Soyer au Champagne](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/soyer-au-champagne.md): Vanilla ice cream softens Cognac, curaçao, and maraschino before cold Champagne turns the drink into a creamy, aromatic sparkling float.

## References

- Canonical page: https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/champagne
- Photograph: https://stirred.fyi/assets/ingredients/champagne-4c35c3b2.webp
- Source: https://www.champagne.fr/en/champagne-frequently-asked-questions