1621

Name: 1621
Prep time: 5 min
Total time: 5 min
Yield: 1 drink
Ingredients: 1 part apple brandy; 1 part apple juice; 2 dashes blood orange bitters; Ice; 1 sugar cube; 3 parts chilled Prosecco

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Ingredients (6)

1 part apple brandy
1 part apple juice
2 dashes blood orange bitters
Ice
1 sugar cube
3 parts chilled Prosecco

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Although this cocktail certainly wasn’t around for the first Thanksgiving in 1621, it’s a nice fall sparkler to toast the occasion. Of course, there’s no reason to wait for Turkey Day to whip it up!

What to buy: Try to find Stirrings blood orange bitters for this drink. If you can’t, go ahead and substitute orange bitters.

Prosecco is a sparkling wine hailing from the Veneto region of Italy and made of the namesake grape. The extra-dry Ruggeri Prosecco di Valdobbiadene works nicely in this cocktail and is affordable enough that you can buy a few bottles. Prosecco is becoming more widely available, but if you can’t find it, go ahead and use a good-quality, extra-dry sparkling wine.

This recipe was featured as part of our Neoslacker Interactive Thanksgiving menu.

by Aida Mollenkamp

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Instructions

1Combine apple brandy, apple juice, and bitters in a cocktail shaker and top with ice; shake vigorously (about 20 times).
2Place sugar cube in the bottom of a chilled champagne flute, strain brandy mixture into the glass, and top with Prosecco. Serve.