Blood Orange Mimosa
Ingredients
- 2 oz fresh blood orange juice chilled
- 4 oz chilled dry sparkling wine
- 1 thin blood orange wheel
Instructions
- Chill a champagne flute in the freezer for 5 minutes.
- Pour 2 oz fresh blood orange juice into the glass.
- Tilt the glass and add 4 oz chilled sparkling wine slowly down the side, watching the color swirl from pale to deep red as it mixes.
- Stir once, gently, with a bar spoon.
- Cut a thin wheel from a blood orange and set it on the rim.
- Serve immediately, before the color settles and separates.
Good to Know
Blood oranges are at their best from roughly December through March, so buy a few extra and freeze squeezed juice in ice cube trays for the rest of winter.