Cocktail "Mimosa": air pleasure

Fans are good to celebrate the holiday without excessive libations have long appreciated the benefits of cocktails. Delicious drinks that create a light mood and do not lead to rapid intoxication, managed to enter our life somehow imperceptibly, but confidently. Many people have mastered the skills of an experienced bartender and got their own book of recipes in which the compositions of favorite drinks are recorded. Not the last place in it is a cocktail "Mimosa". Absolutely not heavy drink ideally corresponding to a New Year's or wedding mood, has subdued fans of cocktails and by the right became an honorable element of a celebratory table.

Historical reference

It is curious, but there is no exact information about the origin of the cocktail. The most popular version is that the cocktail "Mimosa" was invented and presented for the first time to the world by the barman Frank Meyer, who worked in the bar of the Paris hotel "Ritz" in 1925. However, another interesting theory seems to be more interesting. It involves London barman boss Mac Harry, who coined the team four years earlier in search of a way out of the impasse. The client asked for a "Bellini" cocktail, and in the assortment of the bar there was no peach puree. Having shown sharpness, the barman offered an alternative, in which oranges participated.

Maybe that's why in England the Mimosa cocktail is better known as Buck's Fiz. That's the name of the club, served by the resourceful Mac Harry. In the rest of the world, he is still better known by the name of the flower, because it corresponds very much to it with its own shade. It is not surprising that the drink has received such wide popularity. As you know, classic cocktails gain world recognition in the event that they have a simple composition. In this respect, "Mimosa" can be considered unsurpassed. Traditionally, it consists of only two components.

Cocktail "Mimosa": classic recipe

In a cocktail glass, orange juice and champagne merge. However, when preparing a cocktail, a number of conditions must be met.

1. The juice must be freshly squeezed. Fresh is made just before it is poured into a glass. Its replacement with juice from the package is unacceptable.
2. Champagne is taken semi-dry or brut. This is completely justified: the sweetness of an orange should be softened by sourness of wine.
3. The cocktail "Mimosa" is served well chilled. To achieve the desired effect, either components are placed in the refrigerator in advance, or ice cubes are placed in the glass. However, there is subtlety. When the wine becomes cool enough, the ice is removed from it. You can go and the third way - pre-freeze the glass itself.

If you believe the first version of the origin of the drink, then in the cocktail "Mimosa" should also add a few drops of citrus liqueur, which is based on cognac. For example, "Triple Sec". For decoration, usually used leaves of fresh mint, slices of orange and its peel. There is no objection and a thin sugar bezel along the edge of the wine glass.

Variations of "Mimosa"

A loved cocktail is modified by bartenders in a wide variety. Of the most famous variations can be mentioned:

1. Cream-cocktail "Mimosa". Two volumes of orange juice are well mixed with a half dose of cream fattier. In the end, champagne is added. Its volume is equal to portions of cream. In the decoration the most harmonious will be citrus - peel, peel or circles.
2. "Mimosa" for Christmas. Champagne is poured twice as much as cranberry juice. To decorate the glass, red-green sugar is used.
3. Grapefruit cocktail. Here, orange juice simply changes to grapefruit. The rest corresponds to tradition.

In principle, with juices, a bartender can play, as his taste suggests, a fantasy. No less successful is the cocktail "Mimosa" with champagne and pomegranate juice. Many approved the pear version. But with a cherry filling the drink somehow did not get accustomed.

Non-alcoholic cocktail versions

Despite the fact that "Mimosa" is an adult drink, the younger generation can also be offered it. Only in sober execution. Children really like Fauxmosa - a cocktail based on orange juice and lemon or lime "pop". You can replace it with "Sprite" or "Phantom". But in the latter case, the taste of lemonade too fuses with the taste of the citrus component.