Sparkling · Brunch · Winter

Puccini

Fresh mandarin juice in the flute, cold Prosecco poured slowly over it. Sweeter and rounder than a Mimosa, and gone too quickly.

Base: Prosecco
Glass: Champagne flute
Method: Build
Strength: 6.5% ABV

Ingredients

100 mlProsecco1 swap
Any dry sparkling winehigh
Little change
50 mlMandarin Orange Juice1 swap
Fresh tangerine or clementine juicemedium
Very close, slightly sharper

How to make

Technique

Build · 10–15s

Building straight in the glass keeps it simple and preserves any fizz.

Pour the mandarin orange juice into a mixing glass with ice, then add the Prosecco.
Stir gently and pour into a chilled flute.

Serve

Glass

Champagne fluteAlso fine: Coupe glass, Wine glass

Garnish

None

Taste & nutrition

6.5%ABV

102kcal

0.86Drinks

StrengthLight

Sweet to dryOff-dry

Estimated from ingredient amounts and assumed ABVs — not a lab measurement.

Good to know

Squeeze the mandarins to order — bottled juice turns the drink flat and syrupy.
Chill the glass first; there is nothing here to hide behind.

History

PlaceVenice, Italy

One of the fruit variations named in the classic Bellini family, carrying the name of the composer Giacomo Puccini. The Venetian habit of swapping the fruit and renaming the drink after an Italian artist started at Harry's Bar and never really stopped. Mandarin makes the sweetest of the family, which is why it reads as a winter and morning drink.

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