Champagne Mai Tai

Make your Mai Tai sparkle! The bubbly lightens things up, and we'd suggest avoiding an overly aggressive rum here.

Ingredients:

• ¾ oz Almond Orgeat Syrup
• 1 ½ rum
• ½ oz orange liqueur
  
• 1 oz lime juice
  
• 2 oz champagne
  

Instructions:

• Add all ingredients except sparkling wine to a cocktail shaker
• Add ice and shake hard for 10 seconds
• Pour champagne into a rocks glass filled with crushed ice
• Strain shaken tin contents into the glass and stir
  

Glass:

• rocks

Garnish:

• mint
  

Photo:

 Scott Kallstrand