Drink: Aatxe Aperitivo (Sparkling Cava Cocktail)

Recipe by Morgan Schick, The Bon Vivants, San Francisco Morgan Schick of San Francisco's Bon Vivants cocktail consultants created this cocktail for Aatxe ("Ah-chay") restaurant, also in San Francisco. A twist on the classic Champagne cocktail, it's made

Ingredients

1 sugar cube
10 dashes Peychaud's bitters
1 ounce (2 tbsp.) Pacharán or sloe gin*
1 orange
About 6 oz. brut cava (Spanish sparkling wine) or Prosecco

Instructions

Drop sugar cube into a champagne flute. Shake bitters onto sugar and pour in pacharán. Cut a wide strip of orange zest from an orange with a vegetable peeler and twist it to release its oils. Drop into glass, then fill with cava.
*Order pacharan, also spelled patxaran, from winedelight. com. Sloe gin is widely available in liquor stores, but Schick particularly likes the sloe gin from Spirit Works Distillery, in Sebastopol, CA.

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