Vodka Champagne Cocktail

This Vodka Champagne Cocktail comes together with just 5 ingredients and is crisp, bubbly, elegant, and delicious. It makes the perfect drink for Christmas, New Year's Eve, and Valentine's Day!

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How to Make Vodka Champagne Cocktail 

• Combine the vodka, red currant syrup, and juice in a cocktail shaker. Fill the shaker with ice, cover, and shake well until the outside of the shaker is very cold. 

• Divide the vodka mixture between 2 champagne glasses and top each with champagne. Garnish with 1 or 2 raspberries each and enjoy your champagne vodka cocktail!

Ingredients and Substitutions

• Vodka: Although I prefer to use vodka because it has a neutral flavor that won't overpower the champagne, juice, and red currant syrup flavors, you can use dry gin which has a pine-y juniper berry flavor.
• Red currant syrup: It sweetens our champagne cocktail and gives a beautiful pinkish color when mixed with the liquors and lemon juice. It will have more of a light reddish color if mixed with cranberry, strawberry, or raspberry juice.  You may use a superfine sugar or simple syrup instead but it will alter the final color of your drink.  
• Fresh juice: While I prefer fresh lemon juice (or lime juice) which has more of a citrusy flavor, you may use strained, sugar-free strawberry, raspberry, or cranberry juice which also pairs well with red currants. It depends on your preference!
• Brut champagne: it is a sparkling white wine with hints of floral, fruity, or almond notes. It is less sweet than other types of champagne yet as light-bodied and acidic. Prosecco and other dry sparkling wines make good substitutes. For a bubbly non-alcoholic drink, use ginger ale or a sparkling raspberry cider such as Sparkling Rosé or Sparkling Blush)
• Fresh or frozen raspberries: Used only for garnishing! You may add a thyme sprig if you want. Other garnish options are these Sugared Prosecco Grapes or these sugared cranberries. It's OPTIONAL!
• Ice cubes: It will make your vodka champagne cocktail cold and refreshing. 

What Vodka to Use in a Champagne Vodka Cocktail

Consider taste, quality, and cost when buying vodka for your vodka cocktails. Here are a few affordable high-quality vodkas listed from high to low prices:

• High-Level vodka: Belvedere;
• Mid-level vodka: Grey Goose;
• Low-level vodka: Titos.

Expert Tips

• If you want, you can also rub the inside of a lemon peel around the rim of the glasses, giving your cocktail drink an extra citrusy freshness and flavor.
• For less sweet champagne cocktails, use ¼ teaspoon instead of 1 tablespoon per glass of cocktail, and place a sugar rim on the glasses.
• If you prefer, garnish the glasses with some lemon peel or a lemon twist.
• Make sure to use a cocktail shaker to mix vodka, juice, syrup, and ice. Why? It will make your Christmas champagne cocktail cold enough to add the bubbly champagne. 
• This champagne vodka cocktail recipe is perfect for any occasion, including Valentine's Day, Christmas, and New Year's Eve.
• Choose a brut champagne, not one labeled "extra dry". 

FAQs

Other Cocktails Made with Vodka

• Sparkling cranberry cocktail
• Caipirinha
• Pineapple coconut cocktail
• Rosewater cocktail

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BEST Vodka Champagne Cocktail

This Vodka Champagne Cocktail comes together with just 5 ingredients and is crisp, bubbly, elegant, and delicious. It makes the perfect drink for Christmas, New Year's Eve, and Valentine's Day!

Course:Drink

Cuisine:American

Prep Time 5 minutes minutes

Cook Time 0 minutes minutes

Total Time 5 minutes minutes

Servings 2

Calories188.5 kcal

Author Valentina Dimitrova

Equipment

• 1 cocktail shaker
• 2 flute glasses

Ingredients

• 3 ounces vodka OR 6 tablespoons. SUBSTITUTE: Dry gin
• 1 ounce red currant syrup OR 2 tablespoons (use more for a sweeter cocktail). SUBSTITUTE: It sweetens our champagne cocktail and gives a beautiful pinkish color when mixed with the liquors and lemon juice. It will have more of a light reddish color if mixed with cranberry, strawberry, or raspberry juice.  You may use a superfine sugar or simple syrup instead but it will alter the final color of your drink.
• 1 ½ ounce freshly squeezed lemon juice OR 3 tablespoons -- SUBSTITUTES: strained, sugar-free cranberry, raspberry, strawberry, or cranberry juice
• 6 ounces Brut Champagne OR ⅔ cup. SUBSTITUTE: Prosecco, or other dry sparkling wine. For a bubbly non-alcoholic drink, use ginger ale or a sparkling raspberry cider such as Sparkling Rosé or Sparkling Blush.
• Fresh raspberries and thyme sprig for garnishing OPTIONAL (You may use a twisted lemon peel, or a cherry maraschino instead)
• Ice cubes

US Customary - Metric

Instructions

• Combine the vodka, red currant syrup, and juice in a cocktail shaker. Fill the shaker with ice, cover, and shake well until the outside of the shaker is very cold. It takes about 20 seconds!
• Divide the mixture between 2 champagne glasses and top each with champagne. Garnish with 1 or 2 raspberries each and enjoy! (TIP: If you want, you can also rub the inside of a lemon peel around the rim of the glasses, giving your cocktail drink an extra citrusy freshness and flavor.)

Nutrition

Calories: 188.5kcal | Carbohydrates: 13.3g | Protein: 0.1g | Fat: 0.1g | Saturated Fat: 0.01g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.01g | Sodium: 7.2mg | Potassium: 97.7mg | Fiber: 0.1g | Sugar: 11.2g | Vitamin A: 1.3IU | Vitamin C: 10.6mg | Calcium: 9.1mg | Iron: 0.4mg

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This post was first published on December 26, 2012.