Ingredients
3/4 to 1 teaspoon Angosture bitters
1 cube sugar
5 ounces chilled sparkling wine
Twist of lemon peel
Instructions
Put a few drops of bitters onto the sugar cube and place it in a Champagne flute. Add the sparkling wine and the rest of the bitters and garnish with lemon peel.
Excerpted from A Revival of Bitters? Sweeeet! by Charles Perry. The article originally appeared in the January 25, 2006 issue of The Los Angeles Times.
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