Name: French 75
Total time: 3 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 15 ml Lemon juice; 1 1&frasl;2 barspoon Powdered sugar; 45 ml Gin; 75 ml Brut sparkling wine

Ingredients

1/2 fl oz

Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)

1 ¹⁄₂ barspoon

Powdered sugar (white sugar ground in mortar and pestle) (or use 5ml of 2:1 sugar syrup per spoon)

1 1/2 fl oz

Hayman's London Dry Gin

2 1/2 fl oz

Brut champagne/sparkling wine

How to make

Glassware

Prepare

Select and pre-chill a FLUTE GLASS.

Prepare garnish of lemon zest twist.

Method

STIR powdered sugar with lemon juice in base of shaker until sugar dissolves.

Add gin and SHAKE with ice.

FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.

TOP with sparkling wine and briefly stir. (Or pour half the sparling wine into the glass first to help reduce foaming and eliminate need to stir.)

Garnish

EXPRESS lemon zest twist over the cocktail and use as garnish.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Alcohol content:

We don't have enough information to calculate the alc./vol., but based on known ingredients, this recipe contains at least:

21.7 grams of pure alcohol

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Brut champagne/sparkling wine — Sulphur Dioxide/Sulphites

Comments & Discussion

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trendomexico Premium Member 2w

OMG lets get out of here granadine! applejack go to your house. This is the perfect French 75! I used Moet and Monkey 47. Is amazin'. Easy as lemonade, fun as a charleston, contemporary but classic. I really can't get why all the other variations: oddly enough just data the drink into forgotten eras. This is perennial.

Robert Spain 30w

Crisp and refreshing. I used cava, but nest time I'll try with a good quality champagne, as I suspect it will improve it significantly.

John Taylor 1y

I made an "Italian 75" (although strictly speaking it was an Aussie/"Italian" 75) using Michinbury Prosecco I had left over and using rich syrup. Not bad but will try again with an Champagne-style Australian sparkling

Mark 1y

Tasty it is! Dry and crisp with the gin being much present.

Catherine Wright 2y

Made these for Bastille Day. Used caster sugar and what a difference. I don't normally make champagne cocktails as I think good champagne is perfect on its own. Got a cheaper champagne.

jay gavin 2y

2oz gin
1/2 oz 2:1 simple
1/2 lemon juice
3oz bubbly

Richard Burgess 2y

Mr Difford, you have been far too humble and not yet linked your own recipe for the French 75 on this page!

Simon Difford Verified User Premium Member 2y

Thanks, Richard. I've added a link to my recipe.

Lesley Gable 2y

Made a riff on this ... instead of the sugar/sugar syrup used 7.5 ml of passion fruit liqueur.

Frederic D. Premium Member 2y

We made the regular version and a vaguely Asian-inspired one, with yuzu juice and Bombay Sapphire East, and both were delicious (and quite dangerous). I had previously overlooked this cocktail, but wow am I glad I corrected this omission.

Yossi Burg 2y

Boom Boom - c'est magnifique! Perfect afternoon drink. My partner had just opened a bottle of dry Prosecco and it worked perfectly- next time when the Brut is popped...