Directions
With the Papeete cocktail, we enter arrogantly into the hot aperitif market. Finally, we can sip a new, amazing sparkling cocktail which is not the usual Martini cocktail, Spritz, Hugo or Moscow Mule.
The Papeete cocktail was born to cheer up your new aperitifs or even to make your brunches unique and stylish. It is quite light, graceful, very fragrant and intriguing. Nothing phantasmagoric, it fits into the ranks of classic sparkling already led by Champagne cocktail, Kir Royal, Bellini, and Mimosa.
It looks like a Rossini, but in reality, it is very different, the Rossini is prepared with strawberry juice, this with strawberry syrup and the difference is abysmal.
The ingredients of the Papeete cocktail: sparkling wine, strawberry and lavender syrup and a sprig of thyme, that’s it, that’s all, there are no spirits, but only sparkling wine as alcohol. You can also use prosecco for a more casual drink.
The name is a tribute to the splendid corner of paradise of the Pacific, the northern area of the island of Tahiti, which is halfway between the Americas and New Zealand, distant and unreachable, a magical place that has bewitched Paul Gauguin, who chose it as the residence of his last years of life.
Well, that’s all! To make lavender & strawberry syrup the recipe is always the same, just add a teaspoon of dried lavender flowers to the bottle. Remember to shake it before using it. It is not very practical to leave lavender flowers since they could clog the spout.
Leave the flowers to infuse from morning to evening, filter with a colander and bottle again: very simple, but the combination of strawberry and lavender is amazing and not many other ingredients are needed to make a delicious and elegant sparkling cocktail.
Ingredients and doses to make the Papeete cocktail
- 10 cl of Spumante or Prosecco
- 2 cl of strawberry and lavender syrup
- 1 sprig of thyme
- 2 dash of angostura
- no ice
How to make the Papeete cocktail
First of all the syrup, then make sure that the bottle of sparkling wine is very cold, it would be better not to add ice to the cocktail: just keep the wine at 8 degrees.
Slap the thyme and put it with the syrup in the glass and stir gently; leave to infuse for 20 minutes.
Pour the sparkling wine and mix gently.
Garnish with a strawberry and serve.
You should remove the thyme for a “cleaner presentation”, we left it to show it in the photos, but it would only be a mess.
Suggested food pairings
Parmigiana ravioli, spaghetti with clams, chicken tikka masala, Chicken Cacciatore, Vitello Tonnato, truffle risotto, pasta alla carbonara, paella mixta.
Sparkling cocktails you should try
French 75 cocktail, Spritz, Mimosa, Hugo cocktail, Pirlo, Champagne cocktail, Bellini, Rossini, Tintoretto, Pino cocktail, Negroni Sbagliato.
