Mimosa (cocktail)
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A Mimosa is a cocktail
-like drink composed of one part champagne (or other sparkling wine
) and one part thoroughly chilled orange juice
. It is traditionally served in a tall champagne flute with a morning brunch
as hair of the dog
or to guests at weddings. .
A Buck's Fizz is a similar cocktail, but with twice as much orange juice as champagne.
Cocktail
A cocktail is an alcoholic mixed drink that contains two or more ingredients—at least one of the ingredients must be a spirit.Cocktails were originally a mixture of spirits, sugar, water, and bitters. The word has come to mean almost any mixed drink that contains alcohol...
-like drink composed of one part champagne (or other sparkling wine
Sparkling wine
Sparkling wine is a wine with significant levels of carbon dioxide in it making it fizzy. The carbon dioxide may result from natural fermentation, either in a bottle, as with the méthode champenoise, in a large tank designed to withstand the pressures involved , or as a result of carbon dioxide...
) and one part thoroughly chilled orange juice
Orange juice
Orange juice is a popular beverage made from oranges. It is made by extraction from the fresh fruit, by desiccation and subsequent reconstitution of dried juice, or by concentration of the juice and the subsequent addition of water to the concentrate...
. It is traditionally served in a tall champagne flute with a morning brunch
Brunch
Brunch is a meal eaten between breakfast and lunch. The word is a portmanteau of breakfast and lunch.-Origin of the word:The 1896 supplement to the Oxford English Dictionary cites Punch magazine which wrote that the term was coined in Britain in 1895 to describe a Sunday meal for "Saturday-night...
as hair of the dog
Hair of the dog
"Hair of the dog" is a colloquial expression in the English language predominantly used to refer to alcohol that is consumed with the aim of lessening the effects of a hangover. The expression originally referred to a method of treatment of a rabid dog bite by placing hair from the dog in the...
or to guests at weddings. .
A Buck's Fizz is a similar cocktail, but with twice as much orange juice as champagne.