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Apple Cider Spritz

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Apple Cider Spritz

Apple cider spritz. (Recipe: Christine Sismondo; Photo: Erik Putz; Food styling by Ashley Denton; Prop styling by Christine Hanlon)

This celebration of the annual apple harvest is a twist on a champagne cocktail. It’s made with sparkling dry cider instead of the usual bubbles, giving it a slightly lighter and fresher quality.

Ingredients

  • 1 oz Boulard Calvados Pays d’Auge VSOP

  • 3/4 oz St-Germain elderflower liqueur

  • 3/4 oz fresh lemon juice

  • 4 oz Brickworks Ciderhouse Rosé Cider

  • 1 apple fan, or slice (for garnish)

Instructions

  • Add calvados, elderflower liqueur and lemon juice to a cocktail shaker filled with ice and shake for 30 seconds. Strain into a coupe glass, top with cider and garnish with an apple fan on a pick.

You’ve got options

Almost any dry pink cider will work in this recipe, most fruit and/or floral liqueurs can be swapped in for St-Germain, and you can even use fruit brandy instead of calvados.

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A National Magazine Award-winning writer, Christine Sismondo has been writing about spirits, cocktails, bars, and history for publications including Chatelaine, Sharp and the LCBO's Food & Drink for over twenty years. She’s also the Academy Chair for Canada East for World’s 50 Best Bars, author of America Walks into a Bar (2011), Prohibition, a six-part podcast series for Wondery’s American History Tellers and, most recently, Cocktails, A Still Life.

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