Saturday, June 6, 2026

Recipe: Champagne-mead cocktail

Silver Hand Meadery makes a seasonal mead fermented with a honey blend, cider and spices such as vanilla, cinnamon and cloves. (Courtesy Silver Hand Meadery)
Silver Hand Meadery makes a seasonal mead fermented with a honey blend, cider and spices such as vanilla, cinnamon and cloves. (Courtesy Silver Hand Meadery)

Champagne-Mead Cocktail

There are two ways to go about making this one.

  • Mix equal parts (50-50) chilled champagne and Silver Hand Meadery’s “Soak Up the Sun,” a semi-sweet mead made with orange-blossom honey. Take a slice of orange zest (without the fruit) and rub the membrane side around the rim of the glass, to release the oil. Or…
  • Mix equal parts (50-50) chilled champagne with “Scarborough Fair,” a mead infused with rosemary and thyme. Garnish with a sprig of rosemary. (optional)

Serve cocktails in a glass with a bowl that is larger than the rim, like a wine glass, so you can inhale the aroma as you drink.

Recipes courtesy Silver Hand Meadery

Joan Quigley
Joan Quigley
Joan Quigley is a former Miami Herald business reporter, a graduate of Columbia Journalism School and an attorney. Her writing has appeared in the Washington Post, TIME.com, nationalgeographic.com and Talking Points Memo. Her recent book, Just Another Southern Town: Mary Church Terrell and the Struggle for Racial Justice in the Nation’s Capital, was shortlisted for the 2017 Mark Lynton History Prize. Her first book, The Day the Earth Caved In: An American Mining Tragedy, won the 2005 J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award.

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