21 Christmas Champagne Cocktails to Make for the Holidays
You’re going to love these easy Christmas Champagne Cocktails! With seasonal flavors and a festive look, these recipes are great to serve at any holiday party or when you just want to sip a bubbly beverage. Pop those bottles!
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Wine Cocktails are a fun way to change up your holiday happy hour vibes. Cocktails with champagne are fizzy and feel elegant even when they are super simple to make. They’re a fun and celebratory way to usher in the season!
Get festive with Christmas Champagne Cocktails
Whether you use champagne, Cava, prosecco or sparkling wine (they’re basically all the same), these easy cocktail recipes are great for Christmas.
This type of wine is a great cocktail mixer because it adds a touch of sweetness and a fun hit of bubbles.
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This collection includes classic champagne cocktails with just a few ingredients and also seasonal ideas that look and taste like Christmas.
These champagne cocktails for Christmas are fun to serve at parties or anytime you want to share a festive drink with friends and family.
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Champagne Christmas Cocktails
Using seasonal ingredients, fruits, herbs and flavors, you'll find new twists on classics that find a way to use this sparkling wine for a delicious outcome. Browse these creative ideas and get ready to toast the season with any one of these crowd-pleasing champagne cocktails.
Christmas Pear Champagne Cocktail
Keep it simple yet elegant with this 2-ingredient holiday cocktail of pear brandy and chilled champagne. Choose your most sparkly flute and rim it with superfine sugar for a festive touch. Add in the pear brandy before topping it with champagne. It's a sparkling way to celebrate the season!
Blood Orange Mimosa Recipe
The seasonal citrus of freshly squeezed blood oranges takes the place of classic orange juice in this holiday mimosa. The blood oranges make a bold statement in this beautiful cocktail that pairs with champagne and fresh rosemary for a delicious Christmas sip that's certain to be a hit at your next holiday event.
Peppermint White Christmas Cocktail
Minty, sweet and fizzy, this cocktail is guaranteed to bring the Christmas cheer. Champagne flutes are rimmed with crushed peppermint candy before adding in white creme de cacao. Top it off with chilled champagne and a red and white candy cane for a festive finish.
Grapefruit and Sage Champagne Cocktails
Grapefruit and sage are flavors of the winter season and here, they combine in this sweetly tart cocktail that's on point for the holiday season. Infuse your homemade simple syrup with fresh sage leaves. Make the syrup ahead and chill it well. When ready to make the cocktail, add fresh grapefruit juice, simple syrup, and Angostura bitters to a shaker with ice. Strain into your glasses and top with chilled champagne. Garnish with fresh sage leaves.
Easy Kombucha Mimosa Recipe
This simple Kombucha Mimosa is a unique twist on a mimosa. Skip the juice in favor of any flavor of the fermented beverage. I love the way dark cherry tasts but any flavor is delicious!
Blackberry Champagne Punch
Break out of traditional red-hued cocktails for the holidays and try this sweetly tart punch that combines grapefruit slices, fresh blackberries, Grand Marnier liqueur, brandy and champagne for a make-ahead effort that just needs a good chill before serving. Pour over crushed ice in your best champagne flutes and garnish grapefruit wedges and blackberries for a lovely touch.
Ginger Champagne Cocktail
Sparkly ginger is right at home in this champagne cocktail that brings the spicy with the addition of cinnamon and nutmeg, for good measure. Freshly grated ginger is a must for the simple syrup. Strain it and add this gingery elixir to a glass before topping with champagne. Easy, sparkly and Christmasy.
Cinnamon Pear Mimosas
Cinnamon sticks add just the right spice to this pear juice that's infused overnight in the fridge for maximum flavor. When ready to serve, fill your champagne flutes with the luscious pear juice and top with chilled champagne or prosecco. Garnish with a slice of pear or a dash of ground cinnamon for that extra special touch. It's a holiday mimosa that's perfect for a brunch or dinner.
Christmas Champagne Cocktail
Make a big batch of this Christmas cocktail with just 4 ingredients. In a large pitcher, add cranberry juice, orange juice, pineapple juice and champagne. Serve over plenty of ice and garnish this fruity and bubbly cocktail with fresh orange slices and cranberries. Beautiful!
Apple, Pear and Pomegranate Sangria
Big batch party sangria takes a festive turn with seasonal fruits of apple and pear in a base of dry white wine. Ground nutmeg and whole cloves add an appropriate spicy flavor . Refrigerate to chill and when ready to serve, fill flutes with the sangria mixture before pouring in the champagne. Garnish with pomegranate seeds for color and holiday charm.
Sparkling Fig Cocktail with Champagne Recipe
Simple elegance is what you'll achieve with this easy cocktail that's perfect for your holiday celebrations. Muddle fresh figs, vodka and sugar to help the figs release their tasty juices. Strain into your glass and top with champagne. Alternately, skip the straining and let the figs act as a garnish in the glasses. Easy!
Festive Poinsettia Cocktail
Named after the most well-known Christmas flower, this cocktail lives up to its moniker with a merry red shade, thanks to cranberry juice and fresh cranberries. Simply add Grand Marnier and cranberry juice to a champagne flute before topping it off with the bubbly. Drop in a few fresh cranberries and don't forget to add the greenery with a fragrant sprig of rosemary.
Grapefruit Champagne Punch
Make this party punch for a tangy kick to help celebrate the holidays. It's a lively sip made with freshly squeezed grapefruit juice, vodka, elderflower liquor and Prosecco for a fizzy finish. Rim your glasses with sugar, fill with ice and pour in the punch!
Vanilla Cranberry Mimosa
This vibrant red cocktail will be a jolly addition to your holidays. It's a delicious combo of vanilla vodka and cranberry juice that gets its effervescence from champagne. Shake the vodka and cranberry juice over ice for the perfect chill before straining into your flutes. Top with champagne and garnish with fresh cranberries. It's an easy cocktail to make on the fly and it's on point for all the winter holidays!
Kir Royale
With its deep hue and sweet finish, this blackcurrant flavor from Crème de Cassis mingles with bubbles in this easy Kir Royale cocktail that's always in style. The liqueur made from macerated black currant offer this exceptional garnet shade that automatically qualifies it as a holiday spirit. The liqueur goes in first followed by champagne for this easy offering.
Apple Cider Mimosa
This seasonal cocktail offers a delicious sipping opportunity that's flavored with the sweet combination of apple cider and champagne. Add the holiday sparkle by rimming the flutes with cinnamon sugar before pouring in this apple-inspired mimosa beverage.
Champagne Margarita
For your tequila loving guests, serve them this sparkling margarita for a festive touch. Rim the margarita glass with salt, naturally, and fill with ice before adding tequila, lime juice, and triple sec. Stir gently and top with champagne.
Jammy French 75
Turn a lemony French 75 cocktail into a seasonal delight with the simple addition of jam. Choose your holiday flavor and add it to a cocktail shaker filled with ice, gin, and lemon juice. Shake and strain into your glass before topping with champagne. Add the appropriate fruit or a sprig of fresh rosemary for garnish.
Frose Champagne Floats
Plan ahead with these frozen cocktails that need a night in the freezer to make the perfect chilled cocktail. Pour a frose mixer into ice cube trays for their session in the freezer. When ready, mix the cubes with cranberry and lemon juice in a blender until smooth. Fill your glasses halfway with champagne and then add a scoop of the icy sorbet mixture on top. Garnish with sugared cranberries.
The Classic Champagne Cocktail
Keep it easy, elegant and on point by adding a dash of Angostura bitters over a sugar cube and topping with champagne. The sugar cube will keep the bubbles going for a delightful effect. Add a lemon peel as a charming garnish on the rim of the glass. It's the perfect cocktail with which to toast the holiday season.
Bourbon Champagne Cocktail
Fresh blackberries help to sweeten up this sparkling wine cocktail that also has bourbon. This is a fun holiday cocktail to make for any party!
Champagne cocktails feel elegant but shouldn’t just be saved for special occasions. Try a few of these recipes out while enjoying the holiday season. They pair perfectly with gift wrapping and holiday movie watching.
Frequently Asked Questions
Sparkling wine can only be called champagne if it was actually made in the French region of Champagne. Any other sparkling wine is usually made in the same tradition but called something different. Prosecco is typically what they call it when it’s made in Italy. Cava comes from Spain. They are pretty much interchangeable.
Champagne is a great base for all kinds of flavors. From fruity flavors like blackberry, oranges, and strawberry to floral flavors from St. Germain, it pairs well with a lot of liqueurs and syrups.
Supposedly if you hang the neck of a metal spoon or fork into an open bottle of champagne and store it in the fridge, the bubbles will remain intact. I’ve not tried this. I prefer to use a champagne stopper which also keeps the fizz.
While using sparkling wine is a cocktail ensures that you can use a bottle that isn’t super pricey, you always want to use something that you would like the flavor of when sipped on its own. A few reasonably priced options are La Marca, Mumm and I’m oddly obsessed with sparkling wines from New Mexico. Also, Trader Joe’s sparkling wines are inexpensive and delicious.
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