9/5/2023 0 Comments Relax wine mimosa![]() European celebrities were frequently written about in interviews as sipping on a mimosa (Including our friend, Alfred Hitchcock!) and the popularity among the European elite helped spread them to the states. In 1961, the Sydney Morning Herald reported that “The Queen, the Duke of Edinburgh, and the Queen Mother all have adopted a Champagne cocktail they call mimosa.” The French have been drinking a version of the mimosa forever-champagne, orange juice, and a touch of Cointreau. The British royal family loved the mimosa as a pre-dinner drink, and are largely responsible for setting the drink on a track to dominate brunch tables everywhere. Very few have been able to certify the authenticity of this story, and it may just be that Hitchcock was on trend, not the father of it. Apparently, after a rough night, he and a friend were in a bar in San Francisco and they quelled their hangover with the bright and boozy cocktail. The King of Horror himself, Alfred Hitchcock, has also been credited with the invention of the mimosa. Mysteriously, Meier released a book in 1936 called Artistry of Mixing Drinks, and while he listed the drink, he didn’t take credit for it. Four years later, in 1925, Frank Meier, a bartender at the Ritz Carlton Paris, mixed equal parts orange juice and sparkling wine and likely named it after the flowers of the Acacia dealbata tree in Europe. The classic mimosa that we know and love today is a little heavier on the sparkling wine than Buck’s pours, but they were essentially the foundation for the cocktail as far as most people are concerned. In the early 1920’s, you could find a version of the classic brunch drink at Buck’s Club in London called the Buck’s Fizz. ![]() The true origins of the mimosa are lost to history-but that doesn’t mean there aren’t plenty of legends going around. It’s National Mimosa Day and you know what that means-sit back, relax, and crack open a bottle of champagne before noon because no one can judge you today! ![]()
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