Combine a fine Champagne and a great vodka (like Stoli) with strawberries and you have a fantastic drink called the Accomplice. This is a great cocktail for elite celebrations and, especially, New Year's Eve parties. I like that it's served in a cocktail glass as opposed to a Champagne flute because it allows the bubbly to swell in the wider glass. Not to mention it's much easier to rim a cocktail glass with sugar, which is a necessary finishing touch for this and works best with a brut or extra brut for that sweet-dry combination that is stunning.
Ingredients:
- 1 oz simple syrup
- 2 oz Stolichnaya vodka
- 1/2 oz fresh lemon juice
- Champagne
- 3 strawberries
- superfine sugar for rimming
Preparation:
- Muddle three strawberries and simple syrup in a cocktail shaker.
- Add the vodka and lemon juice.
- Shake well.
- Strain into a sugar-rimmed martini glass.
- Top with Champagne.
