Mixed Drinks with Wine and Sekt

Anyone looking for new, sometimes exotic flavours can create wonderful mixed drinks with wine, sparkling wine, spirits and other ingredients.

Facts

  • 4cl

    Orange juice

  • 2cl

    Grenadine

  • 1cl

    Lemon juice

  • top up with sparkling wine

    and serve as "German Glory"

Here are a few recipe ideas for a successful mix with Wine and Sekt.

Hawaii classic

    6 cl Scheurebe Spätlese
    4 cl pineapple juice
    4 cl orange juice
    1 cl peach nectar
    1 tbsp lemon juice
    2 cl peach liqueur

Shake the ingredients briefly in a shaker with 3 ice cubes. Pour into a long-drink glass and add crushed ice or 4 ice cubes. Garnish with a slice of lime and a slice of pineapple or peach quarter.

Midnight magic

    6 cl noble-sweet Riesling
    2 cl brandy (preferably a Riesling brandy from the winegrower)
    2 cl pineapple juice
    1 tbsp lemon juice
    Riesling sparkling wine brut

Shake the Riesling with the brandy, pineapple juice and lemon juice in a shaker with 3 ice cubes. Pour into a long-drink glass and top up with sparkling wine. Garnish with a slice of pineapple.

Kir Imperial

    2 cl raspberry liqueur
    Chasselas or Pinot Blanc

Pour the liqueur into a 0.2 litre wine glass and top up with the chilled wine.

Kir (aperitif)

    2 cl Crême de Cassis
    grey or white Burgundy

Pour the cassis into a 0.2 litre wine glass and top up with the chilled wine.

German Glory (aperitif)

    4 cl orange juice
    2 cl grenadine
    1 cl lemon juice
    Pinot Blanc sparkling wine brut

Stir the juice and grenadine well in a champagne glass with 3 ice cubes or 2 tablespoons of crushed ice. Top up with sparkling wine and stir once slowly. Garnish with half a slice of orange.

Hollywood

    3 cl orange liqueur
    3 cl grapefruit juice
    10 cl Riesling or Pinot Blanc sparkling wine brut

Shake the liqueur with the juice and 3 ice cubes in a shaker. Pour into a champagne glass and top up with the sparkling wine. Garnish with half a slice of orange.

What does mixability mean?

Miscibility of an ingredient with other spirits, drinks or juices, especially regarding flavour and aroma aspects. Please not: Wine brings along its own flavours.

with goat's cheese Courgette and chanterelle salad

with goat's cheese

  • 2 ganze Zucchini
  • 3 EL Rapsöl
  • 1 kleine Schalotte
  • 300 Gramm Pfifferlinge
  • 1 Msp. gemahlener Piment
  • 2 Bund Rucola
  • je 1/2 Bund Kerbel u. glatte Petersilie
  • je 3 EL Walnuss- u. Rapsöl
  • 4 Stück Ziegenkäse-Taler
  • 1 Prise Zucker
  • nach Belieben Salz & Pfeffer

Salad:

Wash the courgettes and slice thinly. Place in a bowl and mix with the oil.

 

Heat a grill pan and fry the courgettes in batches until golden brown. Season with salt and pepper, place in a bowl.

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<p>Peel and finely dice the shallot. Clean the chanterelles, wash if necessary and pat dry. Depending on size, cut in half if necessary.

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<p>Sauté the shallot in a pan until translucent. Add the chanterelles and fry vigorously for 3 minutes while stirring. Season with salt, pepper and allspice. Add to the courgettes. Wash the rocket and spin dry.

 

Dressing:

Wash the herbs, shake dry. Pluck the leaves, blend finely with both types of oil and vinegar in a blender or with a hand blender. Flavour with salt, pepper and sugar. Pour over the courgette and chanterelle mix and mix loosely with the rocket. Arrange on plates, sprinkle with goat's cheese.

  • Pinot Blanc (trocken)

with dry sparkling wine Sparkling wine and lime dessert

with dry sparkling wine

  • 300ml Winzersekt
  • 4 Limetten
  • 100g Zucker
  • 30g Speisestärke
  • 100g Butterkekse
  • 50g ungesalzene Butter
  • 2 Eiweiße
  • 50g grieschicher Joghurt
  • 150g Schlagsahne

Pour the sparkling wine and sugar into a pan. Chill the remaining sparkling wine. Wash 1 lime with hot water and finely grate the zest. Halve the lime and 2 others, squeeze out the juice and mix with the cornflour. Pour everything into the pan and bring to the boil briefly. Remove the pan from the heat and chill the cream in the fridge.

 

Fill the shortbread biscuits into a freezer bag, crush with a rolling pin and place in a bowl. Melt the butter in a pan, pour over the crumbled shortbread biscuits, add a pinch of salt and mix well. Leave to cool briefly, divide half into large wine glasses and press down firmly.

 

Cut the lime into slices. Beat the egg whites with salt until stiff. Stir the yoghurt into the chilled champagne and lime cream. Whip the cream until stiff and fold into the cooled cream, one after the other, together with the beaten egg whites. Spread half over wine glasses, add another layer of shortbread biscuits and finish with a layer of cream. Garnish with lime slices and pour in the remaining sparkling wine. Toast and enjoy!

  • Riesling (trocken)
  • Pinot Blanc (trocken)

with pumpkin and white wine sauce Pasta with pumpkin and white wine sauce

with pumpkin and white wine sauce

  • 750 Gramm Butternut-Kürbis(se)
  • 3 kleine Zwiebeln
  • 2 Zehen Knoblauch
  • 1 Becher Crème fraîche
  • 250 ml trockener Weißwein
  • 500 ml Gemüsebrühe
  • 25 Gramm Parmesan oder ähnlicher Hartkäse
  • 400 Gramm Spaghetti oder andere Nudeln
  • nach Geschmack Salz, Pfeffer, Zucker
  • 4 EL Kürbiskerne, evtl. gehackt
  • nach Belieben Muskat, Thymian

Sauté the garlic and onions until translucent. Dice the butternut squash and add, season with pepper and sugar. When the cubes are still firm, pour in the white wine and vegetable stock. Continue cooking until the squash is firm to the bite.

 

In the meantime, cook and drain the pasta.

 

Add the thyme, nutmeg, salt and crème fraîche to the boiling pumpkin, bring to the boil and thicken. Stir in the parmesan and season to taste. You can also crush some diced pumpkin to make the sauce sweeter.

 

Arrange the pasta on plates and top with the pumpkin sauce.

Sprinkle with pumpkin seeds.

  • Scheurebe (trocken)

with pear wedges Chicken breast strips

with pear wedges

  • 500 Gramm Hähnchenbrustfilet
  • 2 reife Birnen
  • 200 ml Birnensaft
  • 100 ml Sahne
  • 1 ganze Zwiebel
  • 4 EL Olivenöl
  • nach Belieben Salz & Pfeffer

Cut the chicken breast fillet into strips. Peel the onion and cut into cubes. Heat the olive oil in a pan and fry the meat in it. Add the diced onion and season with salt and freshly ground pepper.

 

Wash and peel the pears, remove the skin, cut into wedges and sauté in the pan. Deglaze with the pear juice and allow to reduce slightly.

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<p>Finally, add the cream and season to taste.

  • Müller-Thurgau (halbtrocken & feinherb)
  • Kerner (halbtrocken & feinherb)