Ingredients
½ cup blackberries
½ cup water
2 tablespoons honey
1 teaspoon lemon zest
3 tablespoons lemon juice
2 tablespoons holy basil laves
¼ cup elderflower liquor
Sparkling Rose
Lemony Basil Sugar*
Directions
Make a simple syrup but thicker like a puree syrup with the blackberries water and honey, let cool. Blend with fresh basil, lemon juice and zest, strain and chill. In a champagne flute add ½ ounce elderflower liquor and ½ ounce blackberry stuff, fill with a dry sprakling rose. Garnish with a fresh blackberry rolled in the sugar
*Lemony Sage Sugar- combine 1tablespoon turbinado sugar, 2 teaspoons lemon zest and 2 teaspoons finely chopped fresh sage and moisten with lemon bitters or lemon juice. Mix well