MELON COOLIA

MELON COOLIA

1 ounce Midori Liquor

1 ¼ ounce simple syrup

1 ¼ ounce sour mix

2 ounces Champagne

Garnish with maraschino cherry

Midori and a cool fall breeze. If that sounds like a good afternoon to you, be sure to do it right with a MELON COOLIA cocktail. It combines Midori with champagne, and the melon liquor shines as bright as it looks. I got the recipe from In the Land of Cocktails.

To make the MELON COOLIA, put the ingredients above into a cocktail shaker (those individual-sized champagne bottles sold in grocery stores work well), add lots of ice, shake well, and strain into a cocktail flute. Garnish with a maraschino cherry and drink immediately, while it’s still cold.

Though it features the sweet melon taste of Midori, the MELON COOLIA uses sour mix to cut the sweet down to a pleasant level and the it’s one of those cocktails that can be drunken quickly. It’s probably the best Midori cocktail I've had yet. And it would have been even better with a higher quality champagne. I only wished I’d had some vanilla ice cream or peach pie to have with it. Then I would really have been feeling as happy and COOLIA as a cucumber.

Drink Up^

Cocktail Connie