Lovers well celebrate the holiday without unnecessarylibations have long appreciated the benefits of cocktails. Delicious drinks that create a light mood and do not lead to rapid intoxication, managed to enter our lives somehow imperceptibly, but confidently. Many people have mastered the skills of an experienced bartender and have gotten their own book of recipes, in which compositions of favorite drinks are recorded. Not the last place in it is occupied by the Mimosa cocktail. Absolutely not heavy drink, ideally corresponding to New Year's or wedding mood, subdued fans of cocktails and by right became an honorable element of a festive table.
Historical reference
Curious, but accurate information about the originthere is no cocktail. The most popular is the version according to which the Mimosa cocktail was invented and first presented to the world by the bartender Frank Meyer, who worked in 1925 in the bar of the Paris Ritz Hotel. However, another intricate theory seems more interesting. London bartender chef Mac Harry is involved in it, who invented the line-up four years earlier in search of a way out of the impasse. A client asked for a Bellini cocktail, and there was no peach puree in the assortment of the bar. Having shown ingenuity, the bartender offered an alternative in which oranges participated.
Maybe that's why in England a cocktailMimosa is better known as Buck’s Fiz. That was the name of the club served by the inventive Mac Harry. In the rest of the world, it is still better known under the name of a flower, because it is very consistent with its shade. Not surprisingly, the drink has received such wide popularity. As you know, classic cocktails gain international recognition in the event that they have a simple composition. In this regard, "Mimosa" can be considered unsurpassed. By tradition, it consists of only two components.
Cocktail "Mimosa": a classic recipe
In a cocktail glass orange juice and champagne are poured. However, when preparing a cocktail, a number of conditions are required.
- Juice must be exclusively fresh. Fresh is done immediately before it is poured into a glass. Its replacement with juice from the package is not allowed.
- Champagne is taken semi-dry or brut. This is justified: the sweetness of the orange should be softened by the sourness of the wine.
- Коктейль «Мимоза» подаётся хорошо охлаждённым.To achieve the desired effect, either the components are placed in the refrigerator in advance, or ice cubes are placed in the glass. However, there is a subtlety. When the glass is cool enough, the ice is removed from it. You can go the third way - pre-freeze well the glass itself.
If you believe the first version of the origindrink, then in the cocktail "Mimosa" should also add a few drops of citrus liqueur, which is based on brandy. For example, "Triple Sec." For decoration, leaves of fresh mint, orange slices and its skin are usually used. There is no objection to the thin sugar rim around the edge of the glass.
Variations of "Mimosa"
The favorite cocktail is modified by bartenders in a big variety. Of the most famous variations can be mentioned:
- Крем-коктейль «Мимоза».Two volumes of orange juice mix well with a half dose of cream fatter. At the end of the champagne is added. Its volume is equal to the portion of cream. In the decoration of the most harmonious will be citrus - peel, peel or circles.
- "Mimosa" at Christmas. Champagne is poured twice as much as white cranberry juice. Red and green sugar is used to decorate the glass.
- Grapefruit cocktail. Here, orange juice just changes to grapefruit. The rest fits the tradition.
Basically, with juices, the bartender can play asprompts him to taste, fantasy. No less successful is the Mimosa cocktail with champagne and pomegranate juice. The pear version has been approved by many. But with a cherry filling drink somehow did not catch on.
Non-alcoholic versions of the cocktail
Although Mimosa is an adult drink,The younger generation can also offer it. Only in sober performance. Children love Fauxmosa - a cocktail based on orange juice and lemon or lime "pop". You can replace it with "Sprite" or "Fanta." But in the latter case, the taste of lemonade too merges with the taste of the citrus component.
