Lose Your Shoes Cocktail

Serves
makes 1 cocktail
Time
5 minutes

MATT TAYLOR-GROSS

Published on December 22, 2015

Bartender Kaiko Tulloch riffs on the Champagne cocktail with a more floral and herbal version at Lucky Liquor Co. in Edinburgh. The name for the dangerously delicious drink comes from a customer who claimed she would lose her shoes if she had a couple more.

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Ingredients

For the hibiscus vodka:

¹⁄₂ oz. hibiscus tea
1 bottle vodka

For the cocktail:

¹⁄₂ oz. hibiscus vodka
¹⁄₂ oz. rose liqueur
¹⁄₄ oz. yellow Chartreuse
1 sugar cube
Champagne, preferably Cremante de Bourgogne Blanc de Blancs
Grapefruit peel, to garnish

Instructions

Step 1

Make the hibiscus vodka: Pour the vodka into a large bowl, then stir in the tea and let steep for 2 hours. Pour the vodka through a fine strainer back into the bottle and refrigerate until ready to use.

Step 2

Make the cocktail: In a chilled champagne flute, stir the hibiscus vodka with the rose liqueur, chartreuse, and sugar cube. Top with Champagne and twist grapefruit peel over the top before serving.

Make the hibiscus vodka: Pour the vodka into a large bowl, then stir in the tea and let steep for 2 hours. Pour the vodka through a fine strainer back into the bottle and refrigerate until ready to use.
Make the cocktail: In a chilled champagne flute, stir the hibiscus vodka with the rose liqueur, chartreuse, and sugar cube. Top with Champagne and twist grapefruit peel over the top before serving.