A sunny sip for springtime Sundays.
March 15th, 2009
Created after I hurriedly grabbed a bottle of white wine for cooking a risotto with only to discover Moscato d’Asti was a sweet bubbly - no good for my risotto, and bound to sit sadly in the fridge going flat.
As an impoverished gourmet, I couldn’t let that happen, so in the grand tradition of morning-after-champagne-cocktails, I employed the citrus maneouver. My current citrus of choice is the meyer lemon, which combines all the best parts of a kumquat (mild, sweet rind), a lime (floral bouqet), and a lemon (lemonyness). The juice of one of my meyer lemons mellowed out the Moscato, whose sweetness in turn brought out the full flavor of the lemon. A spritz of club soda on the top brought the drink from ‘puckering’ to ‘quenching’.
