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Buck’s Fizz Cocktail Recipe

Created at the Buck’s Club in London in 1921, this is one of the most frequently enjoyed champagne cocktails in the world. Leave out the grenadine, and it becomes a Mimosa, named for the bright golden flowers on the mimosa tree. Makes 1 cocktail 1/2 ounce Grenadine 1 ounce orange juice 4 ounces champagne Add grenadine and orange juice to a champagne flute. Top with champagne and serve. By Maria C. Hunt, author of The Bubbly Bar: Champagne and Sparkling Wine Cocktails for Every Occasion Published August 2009 by Clarkson Potter, a division of Random House

January 30, 2011

Drinks

Chambord Has a New Look, and a Vodka too

I was sitting at the long Carrara marble bar of the Lake Chalet looking out at Lake Merritt and the rows of liquor bottle on the back bar. I saw lot of familiar bottles, but noticed that the familiar round Chambord bottle had changed. And Chambord, the venerable black raspberry liqueur has a new sibling — a flavored vodka The bottle has lost its crown, it’s replaced with a crown medallion on front. The top of the cap and the bottle have a new flower with four pointed petals, like a play on the French design called a quatrefoil. Chambord has a new look that stars the quatrefoil, a four-pointed floral motif. Quatrefoils are popular motifs on churches in France, England and especially Italy. But the most familiar example of the quatrefoil is on the iconic Louis Vuitton logo created in 1896. One thing that hasn’t changed is the distinctive and deep…

October 2, 2010