Name: Alfonso
Total time: 3 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 1 Superfine sugar; 4 Aromatic bitters; 15 ml Rouge aromatised wine; Brut sparkling wine

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Flute glass

Ingredients:
1 cube	Caster/ Superfine/Baker's special sugar (white)
4 dash	Angostura Aromatic Bitters
1/2 fl oz	Dubonnet/French rouge aromatised wine
Top up with	Brut champagne/sparkling wine
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Garnish:

Lemon zest twist

How to make:

Coat sugar cube with bitters and drop into glass. POUR Dubonnet and then champagne into chilled glass.

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Brut champagne/sparkling wine – Sulphur Dioxide/Sulphites

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Review:

Herbal variation on the classic Champagne Cocktail

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History:

Named after the deposed Spanish King Alfonso XIII, who first tasted this drink while exiled in France.

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