Stoli Accomplice

Combine a fine Champagne and a great vodka (like Stoli) with strawberries and you have a fantastic drink called the Accomplice. This is a great cocktail for elite celebrations and, especially, New Year's Eve parties. I like that it's served in a cocktail glass as opposed to a Champagne flute because it allows the bubbly to swell in the wider glass. Not to mention it's much easier to rim a cocktail glass with sugar, which is a necessary finishing touch for this and works best with a brut or extra brut for that sweet-dry combination that is stunning.

Ingredients:

• 1 oz simple syrup
• 2 oz Stolichnaya vodka
• 1/2 oz fresh lemon juice
• Champagne
• 3 strawberries
• superfine sugar for rimming

Preparation:

1. Muddle three strawberries and simple syrup in a cocktail shaker.
2. Add the vodka and lemon juice.
3. Shake well.
4. Strain into a sugar-rimmed martini glass.
5. Top with Champagne.

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