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French 75
- Serves
2
- Difficulty
Easy
By Denise Gee
Published 2007
This cocktail pays homage to France’s two powerful weapons—guns and champagne. The French 75mm field gun was a hit overseas during World War I, with American soldiers returning home to praise the small cannon’s success in battle. By around 1920, a drink with the same name began to surface in New Orleans’s French Quarter. You’ll find this to be a sublimely elegant summer drink, especially when served in vintage champagne glasses. (Shown here are Historic Natchez Collection reproductions of a
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