Unicorn 75
Color-Changing French 75
The Unicorn 75 is a crisp, bubbly vodka drink that perfectly combines the clean, light profile of a vodka French 75 with some of the botanical notes of the gin classic. The result is a fresh drink that’s not too heavy and not too stark.
Ingredients
- 1.5 oz Unicorn Butterfly Pea Vodka
- ¾ oz lemon juice
- ½ oz simple syrup
- 2 oz sparkling white wine
- Ice
Instructions
Pour chilled Unicorn Butterfly Pea Vodka into a champagne flute. Add fresh lemon juice and simple syrup to a cocktail shaker, fill with ice, and shake until cold. Strain over vodka. Top with sparkling white wine. Garnish with lemon.
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TIME
< 5 minutes
SERVINGS
1 cocktail
DIFFICULTY
Beginner
NUTRITION
– 146 calories
– Gluten-free
– 3 g carbs
– 1g sugar
*Nutrition information is based on averages. Different brands of ingredients vary slightly.
Color-Changing Unicorn 75
Bartenders will chill gin (or vodka) with lemon juice and simple syrup when making a classic French 75, but the Unicorn 75 puts the all-natural color-change of butterfly pea flower on full display in this vodka drink.
Make sure your color-changing vodka is chilled because it’s going straight into the flute. The natural, bright blue shade will transform to a light purple when lemon juice and simple syrup are strained over. Bubbles from the sparkling wine will help blend and transform the vodka drink cocktail.
History of the French 75
As with most cocktails, early iterations of the French 75 are referenced and recorded as early as 1922. The current recipe (and name) were printed in England, in 1927.
Success in Great Britain became success in the U.S. as the 75 appeared in famous hotels and movies. The drink appears in Casablanca and two John Wayne films, in the ‘40s and ‘50s.
Somewhere along the way, likely during vodka’s rise to fame in the U.S., people started substituting vodka for gin, and the French 75 got a crisp, clear relaunch. Now, the Unicorn 75 restores a hint of botanicals that gin lent to the drink, and adds a completely unique visual experience as well.