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    The Palme d'Or Champagne Cocktail
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    The Palme d'Or Champagne Cocktail

    Champagne, cognac-soaked sugar cube, Angostura & gold leaf

    A golden trophy you can drink

    The Story

    The Palme d'Or is the highest prize awarded at Cannes — a golden palm leaf that represents the pinnacle of creative achievement. The classic Champagne cocktail, invented in the 1860s, is the most prestigious drink in the canon: a cognac-soaked sugar cube dissolving slowly into bubbles, releasing waves of bitters. Crowned with gold leaf, this is a drink that says 'winner' — and tastes like one too.

    Prep: 3 minYield: 1 cocktail

    Ingredients

    • 5 oz dry Champagne
    • 1 sugar cube
    • 2 dashes Angostura bitters
    • Cognac
    • Edible gold leaf
    • Lemon twist

    Preparation

    1. 1.Soak a sugar cube in Angostura bitters and a splash of cognac.
    2. 2.Place in a Champagne flute.
    3. 3.Slowly pour chilled Champagne over the cube.
    4. 4.Float edible gold leaf and add a lemon twist.

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