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.

a Christmassy dessert Plum roaster with cinnamon ice cream

a Christmassy dessert

  • 1 kg Zwetschgen (frisch oder TK)
  • 100 Gramm Zucker
  • 0.5 TL gemahlener Zimt
  • Eine Prise Nelkenpulver
  • 50 ml Pflaumenschnaps
  • 50 Gramm dunkler Rohrzucker
  • 2 EL alter Balsamicoessig
  • 200 Gramm Zucker
  • 4 Eigelb
  • 500 ml Sahne

Plum rings:

Wash, deseed and quarter the plums. Spread the sugar evenly in a non-stick pan and melt slowly over a medium heat. Increase the temperature and immediately add the fruit, schnapps and spices. Stir until the mixture caramelises.

Stir in the muscovado sugar and balsamic vinegar, spread onto a cold plate after approx. 3 minutes.

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<p>Cinnamon ice cream:

Combine the sugar and egg yolks and stir the two ingredients over a bain-marie until frothy.

Whip the cream, then carefully mix both mixtures and add three teaspoons of cinnamon. Carefully mix the cinnamon into the mixture again.

Pour the finished mixture into any (cake) tin or small dish, cover with aluminium foil and place in the freezer for at least three hours.

 

Place the plums on four deep plates or small bowls, cut off 2 – 3 ice lollies each and place on top, serve immediately.

  • Gewürztraminer (trocken)

with shrimps Pumpkin soup

with shrimps

  • 1 kleiner Hokkaido-Kürbis
  • 1 Zwiebel
  • 5 cm Ingwer
  • 2 EL Butter
  • 750 ml Gemüsebrühe
  • 300 ml Kokosmilch
  • 12 mittelgroße Shrimps
  • 2 EL Olivenöl
  • Eine Prise Salz & Pfeffer

Peel and dice the pumpkin, onion and ginger and sauté in the butter.

 

Deglaze with the vegetable stock and sauté for about 15 to 20 minutes until soft.

 

Sauté the shrimps in a little olive oil and leave to cook over a low heat for a few minutes. Place on wooden skewers and keep warm in aluminium foil.

 

When the vegetables have been steamed until soft, blend finely with a hand blender. Stir in the coconut milk and season with salt and pepper to taste.

 

Serve the soup in large cups and garnish with the shrimp skewers.

 

Freshly baked white bread goes well with this.

  • Muskateller (halbtrocken & feinherb)
  • Federweißer (brut nature)

the "Frankfurt Green Sauce" Quiche with herbs

the "Frankfurt Green Sauce"

  • 200 Gramm Mehl
  • 100 Gramm Butter
  • je 1 Bund Kräuter für Frankfurter Grüne Sauce (Petersilie, Kresse, Kerbel, Borretsch, Sauerampfer, Schnittlauch, Pimpernelle)
  • 100 - 125 Gramm Schwarzwälder Schinken
  • 7 ganze Eier
  • 125 ml Sahne
  • 100 Gramm Frischkäse
  • 1 EL Zitronensaft
  • nach Geschmack Salz & Pfeffer

Knead the flour and butter with 4 tbsp water and a teaspoon of salt to form a smooth dough. Line a mould with it and leave to cool for 30 minutes.</p

 

<p>Hard boil 4 eggs. Wash, drain and finely chop the herbs from the Frankfurt green sauce. Cut the ham into wafer-thin slices and spread on the pastry base. Chop the hard-boiled eggs into small

and spread over the top. Mix the 3 eggs, cream and fresh cheese and season with 1 tbsp lemon juice, salt and pepper, then fold in the herbs. Spread the mixture over the pastry base.

 

Bake at 180 °C (gas mark 4) on the middle shelf of the oven for about 30 minutes.

  • Riesling (trocken)

with cinnamon and sugar Odenwald apple soufflé

with cinnamon and sugar

  • 1 kg Äpfel
  • 250 Gramm Semmelbrösel
  • 125 Gramm Zucker
  • 2 EL Butter
  • 1/2 TL Zimt
  • 1 Msp. gemahlene Nelken
  • 50 Gramm Rosinen
  • 100 ml trockener Weißwein
  • 1 EL Rum
  • zum Bestreuen Zimt & Zucker

Sauté the breadcrumbs, butter, spices and 2 tbsp sugar in a pan. Peel the apples and cut into slices. Sauté in white wine with rum and sugar until the liquid has almost evaporated.

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<p>Fill the greased springform tin alternately with the breadcrumb mixture and apples (bottom and top layer of breadcrumb mixture).

 

Bake for one ½ hour at 140 °C. Sprinkle with cinnamon and sugar.

  • Riesling (lieblich)