Midnight Pomegranate Toast

Name: Midnight Pomegranate Toast
Yield: 1 drink
Ingredients: 4 oz (120 ml) NA sparkling wine, chilled; 1 oz (30 ml) pomegranate juice; ¼ oz (7.5 ml) fresh lemon juice; 1 strip orange peel

The stroke-of-midnight pour: alcohol-free sparkling wine with a little pomegranate, a twist of orange and a squeeze of lemon, in a flute.

Alcohol-free. Made with alcohol-free bottles that may carry up to 0.5% ABV.

Make it

You’ll need

4 oz (120 ml) NA sparkling wine, chilled
1 oz (30 ml) pomegranate juice
¼ oz (7.5 ml) fresh lemon juice
1 strip orange peel

Garnish: The strip of orange peel, and three pomegranate seeds sunk in the glass.

Method

Pour the pomegranate juice and lemon juice into a chilled flute.
Top slowly with the sparkling wine, tilting the glass so it keeps its bubbles.
Squeeze the orange peel over the top, skin side down, and drop it in.

Make ahead. For a table of ten, stir 10 oz of pomegranate juice and 2½ oz of lemon juice together an hour ahead, chill it, and pour 1¼ oz into each flute before the bottles open at 11:59.

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Order something like it

Drinks in the same style, or with the same flavours, on menus we’ve checked:

Strawberry Fields at Baleia, South End ($12)
Bright & Early at Capo Restaurant & Supper Club, South Boston ($9)
Spritz (N/A) at Capri Italian Steakhouse, South End
Sunset Fizz at Grana at The Langham, Boston, Downtown ($14)

Allergens and caffeine

No major allergens, and no caffeine.
Alcohol-free sparkling wine is still wine in its making and can contain sulfites.

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The bottles

Leitz Eins Zwei Zero Sparkling RieslingAmazon

The tools

Cocktail Kingdom Leopold JiggerAmazon
Hand citrus pressAmazon

From the store

Pomegranate juice, Fresh lemon juice, Orange peel.

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How we checked it

Dry Rabbit originals are developed and checked with AI, against the 42 tested recipes in The Dry Rabbit Cocktail Guide: sweetness and acidity per ounce, sweet to sour, dilution and the drink’s size against drinks made the same way, every ingredient’s alcohol, and whether you can buy it. One that falls outside the book’s range is reworked before it’s published.

The check’s notes on Midnight Pomegranate Toast

Built and topped, like the book's Esplanade Spritz. Sparkling wine is the whole drink, so pomegranate and lemon only tint and sharpen it: sweetness 0.10 and acidity 0.18 a finished ounce, sweet to sour 0.54, inside the book's built drinks (0.05 to 0.20, 0.01 to 0.17 with the check's margin, and 0.32 to 2.62), and 5.3 oz in a flute, no ice. Pomegranate is tart, so only an ounce goes in. Sweetness depends on the bottle: a dry alcohol-free sparkling wine is assumed. Pomegranate juice, lemons and oranges are at every supermarket; the sparkling wine is on the Bottle Shelf. Alcohol-free sparkling wine can contain sulfites, and the page says so. Under 0.5%.

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