Cava is a perfect summer drink. The Spanish sparkling wine goes well with light summer foods – seafood, cheeses, grilled chicken, salads, you name it . But as everyone knows, a bottle of sparkling wine is never the same the next day. A nice tip is therefore to start or end the dinner with a drink mixed with any leftover cava.
Here are three summer drinks with cava as a base, to make sure no good drops go to waste.
Fläderspritz
Ingredients
- 2 cl elderflower liqueur (feel free to substitute elderflower juice, if available)
- 2 cl torr vermouth
- 2 cl lemon juice from fresh lemon
- 1 fistful of mint
- Cava
- Is
Do the following
- Chill a wine glass and then place some ice cubes in it. Squeeze the lemon.
- Measure 2 cl of elderflower liqueur / pork juice, 2 cl of dry vermouth and 2 cl of lemon into the glass.
- Take a handful of fresh mint and place in the glass. Mix gently around the ingredients.
- Top the glass with cava and decorate with a lemon slice or mint sprig.
Raspberry Fizz
Ingredients
- 4 cl gin
- 2 cl raspberry liqueur (feel free to substitute with raspberry juice or fresh muddled raspberries)
- 1 cl limoncello
- 3 cl citronjuice
- 1 cl sugar syrup
- Cava
- Is
Do the following
- Chill a cocktail glass and fill a shaker with ice. Measure 4 cl of gin and 2 cl of raspberry juice into the shaker. If you have fresh raspberries, it’s perfect to muddled some instead.
- Pour 1 cl of limoncello, 3 cl of lemon juice and 1 cl of syrup into the shaker. Put the lid on and shake well.
- Strain the contents of the shaker through a bar strainer.
- Top with cava and decorate with some fresh raspberries or a slice of lemon.
Watermelon Sugar Lime
Ingredients
- 3 cl gin
- 2 cl persicilli round
- 10 cl vattenmelonjuice (eller mixad vattenmelon)
- 2 cl citronjuice
- Cava
- Lime
- Is
Do the following
- Chill a highball glass and then fill it with ice.
- Measure out 3 cl gin, 2 cl peach liqueur, 10 cl watermelon juice and 2 cl lemon juice.
- Top up the glass with cava and decorate with a slice of lime.
- Stir gently with a spoon.
