Drinks

Mimosas

Name: Mimosas
Prep time: 10 min
Total time: 10 min
Yield: 8 glasses per bottle
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 1 (750 ml) bottle dry sparkling wine, such as brut cava or prosecco, well chilled; 3 cups orange juice, well chilled; 1 (750 ml) bottle dry sparkling wine, well chilled; 1 1/2 cups orange juice, well chilled; 1 1/2 cups cranberry juice cocktail, well chilled; 1 (750 ml) bottle nonalcoholic sparkling apple cider, well chilled; 3 cups orange juice, well chilled; Fresh cranberries, thin orange slices and small rosemary sprigs

Orange juice and cold sparkling wine, poured into tall glasses for Christmas brunch. Here you get the classic, a rosy cranberry-orange version and a sparkling cider version with no alcohol, so everyone at the table can raise a glass.

Makes: 8 glasses per bottle
Prep: 10 min
Ready in: 10 min

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Ingredients

For classic mimosas

1 (750 ml) bottle dry sparkling wine, such as brut cava or prosecco, well chilled
3 cups orange juice, well chilled

For cranberry-orange mimosas

1 (750 ml) bottle dry sparkling wine, well chilled
1 1/2 cups orange juice, well chilled
1 1/2 cups cranberry juice cocktail, well chilled

For sparkling cider mimosas, no alcohol

1 (750 ml) bottle nonalcoholic sparkling apple cider, well chilled
3 cups orange juice, well chilled

For garnish, if you like

Fresh cranberries, thin orange slices and small rosemary sprigs

Steps

Make one kind or all three. Start with cold bottles and cold juice, and chill the glasses too if you have room in the refrigerator. Cold bubbles last longer, and ice would only water them down.
To open the sparkling wine, take off the foil and wire cage, drape a dish towel over the cork and hold it firmly. Slowly turn the bottle, not the cork, until the cork eases out.
For classic mimosas, tilt a flute and pour the wine slowly down the side until the glass is half full. Top it up with orange juice. The two mix as you pour, so there is no need to stir.
For cranberry-orange mimosas, stir the orange juice and cranberry juice together in a pitcher. Pour the wine into each flute until it is half full, then fill the glass with the juice.
For sparkling cider mimosas, pour the orange juice into each flute until it is half full, then slowly add the cider. Let the foam settle before you top it off.
Add a few cranberries, an orange slice or a small rosemary sprig to each glass and serve right away, while the bubbles are lively.

Good to know

Give the bottles at least 3 hours in the refrigerator, or about 30 minutes in a bucket of ice and water. You can stir the two juices together the night before, but pour the bubbles only when you are ready to serve, since a mixed pitcher goes flat fast.
For a party, set the chilled juices in pitchers and the bottles in an ice bucket and let guests pour their own. Keep the cider on its own side of the table so anyone avoiding alcohol can find it easily.
For a drier glass with no alcohol, use nonalcoholic sparkling wine or plain sparkling water in place of the cider. Sparkling white grape juice is a sweeter choice.
Blood orange or grapefruit juice can replace some of the orange juice. If you squeeze your own oranges, plan on about 8 for 3 cups of juice.