Everyone loves to enjoy a few cocktails on Valentine’s Day! Day 4 of ‘Ten Days of Valentine’s Day‘ has ten of the most romantic cocktails from Maria Hunt, aka The Bubbly Girl. Maria’s adventures in bubbly are chronicled on her site, which is a destination for cocktail and food recipes designed for entertaining, information on great wines to try, and fun events– like her private wine and food classes where people discover how sparkling wines are great matches for everyday food.
Flirtini: This cocktail which is like a Cosmopolitan with champagne and pineapple added, was popularized on Sex & The City. It was developed for actress Sarah Jessica Parker by a bartender at Gustavino’s in NYC.
Champagne Bath: This sexy cocktail lets you indulge in a rose bubble bath with your clothes on. Then again, it’s probably more fun sipped while sitting in a bathtub, either alone or with company.
Loving Cup: This is a vintage style cocktail that’s like the cups and punches made in the pre-Prohibition cocktail era. It’s a bit of work, but worth it for a party or someone you want to impress. Borage is hard to find at this time of year so try using violas pansies raised without pesticides. Add to the romantic effect by using heart-shaped ice cube trays.
Love In The Afternoon: The piquant flavor of tangerine, combined with cooling mint and calming rose water, makes this cocktail ideal for a relaxing dreamy midday potion. In the movie Le Divorce, set in Paris, a similar combination was described as the perfect drink to sip before romance.
Soul Kiss Cocktail: This fruity whiskey cocktail was printed in the circa 1936 Just Cocktails bartending guide; the Soul Kiss was still considered quite the smart cocktail by the early 1960s.
French Kiss: Many cocktails have similar names and a variety of different ingredients, but this simple drink is the original and a great to sip before dinner.
Between The Sheets: This Prohibition-era cocktail is said to have been considered rather vulgar for its time according to David Wondrich of Esquire.com, what with the suggestive name and the over-abundance of alcohol.
Maiden’s Prayer: This drink actually refers to a piano exercise that was all the rage in the late 1800s, according to the illustrious David Wondrich. In the early 1900s, a drink was created with the same name; its purpose was to help a date progress more smoothly. Perhaps it should be called the young gentleman’s prayer.
Thug Passion: Rapper Tupac Shakur shares the recipe for this passionate libation in the first lines of his song by the same name.
Femme Fatale: From Raffles Hotel Le Royal in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. In 1967, Jacqueline Kennedy visited Cambodia to fulfill a lifelong dream of seeing Angkor Wat. While residing at Hotel Le Royal, she admired Prince Norodom Sihanouk’s own jazz composition, The Evening I Met You, sipping a rouge-colored Champagne cocktail in the Elephant Bar. Decades later, during the refurbishment process of Raffles Hotel Le Royal, her cocktail glass was discovered still bearing the imprint of her lipstick. To commemorate her visit to Phnom Penh this elegant Champagne cocktail is reborn as “Femme Fatale.”
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