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"There are three intolerable things in life; cold coffee, lukewarm Champagne, and overexcited women." Orson Welles

In keeping with the article above, this weeks cocktail article will discuss the venerable classic champagne cocktail. This cocktail has a very established history, going back as far as the 1850's and dinner parties at that time. The first time it really got a good public outing, however, was probably Mark Twain's 1930's work, ‘A Champagne Cocktail and Catastrophe'. It's not all about catastrophe, however; as Mr Twain said, ""Too much of anything is bad, but too much Champagne is just right".

“The troglodytes of western South Carolina coined 'jump stiddy' for a mixture of Coca-Cola and denatured alcohol (usually drawn from automobile radiators); connoisseurs reputedly preferred the taste of what had been aged in Model-T Fords.”
HL Mencken