Ah, Friday. How do I love thee? Making this cocktail for this ‘Freixenet Friday’ post really happy. As I layered the drink in the flute the dark ruby hue changed to a light vibrant pink cheering me up from a dreary week in Boston. My mood changed like the color changing as I finished my cocktail.
I picked the Pom Vivant cocktail on the Freixenet website from their cocktail recipe options. The cocktail features pomegranate juice, which of course is available year round, but the fruit is in season from September through February. I love when I can enjoy something that goes with the season.
Their Pom Vivant recipe makes 6 cocktails with an entire bottle. While Price and I can easily split a bottle, or I can have it all myself, I decided to scale the recipe down to make 1 drink.
The Pom Vivant
makes 1 cocktail
Ingredients
- 2 oz unsweetened pomegranate juice
- 1 teaspoon simple syrup
- 1 teaspoon orange juice
- 1 bottle (750ml) Freixenet Cordon Negro Extra Dry
- Orange zest (optional)
Process
- Layer the pomegranate juice, simple syrup and orange juice in a flute glass.
- Fill the rest of the champagne flute with Freixenet.
- Add orange zest, to garnish.
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This sounds like the pom mimosa I have planned for Thanksgiving! I wish I had one now. I definitely prefer mimosas to bloody mary.
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I follow them!
I like a super spicy bloody mary.
I followed Freixenet on twitter: valceratops
Hi, it’s mimosas for me!!
I tweeted: https://twitter.com/#!/bostonrookie/status/137894076140896257
Mmmm — if I’m choosing between a bloody mary and a mimosa, I’ll go with the mimosa. But I really like a sweeter cocktail, like a Bellini, especially if it uses a more unique fruit base. This Pom cocktail could be a winner for me!
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Mimosas please!!! I’d love one right now even
always mimosas (the drink is delicious and shares a name with a good friend) but i’m not opposed to any kind of boozy coffee drink either.
following Freixnet on twitter @maybefrugal
In the third paragraph you started saying “I feel that the weekends…” but left the thought unfinished. Was that the cocktail taking effect? ^_^
As for brunch, I’ll take the mimosa, or a Bloody Mary made with gin (alternatively called a Bloody Margaret, a Ruddy Mary, or a Spicy Red Snapper).
umm yeah that sounds about correct. (I made the cocktail friday morning before going to work. best friday morning ever!)
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