Sip, Savor & Celebrate: Summer-Inspired Mimosas

As champagne is the universal drink for celebrations, mimosa variations are always a fun way to jazz up any seasonal event. Join Marinalife in raising a toast to 25 years and check out the following recipes that remind us of some of our favorite things — warm sunshine, sweet summertime and celebrating good times on the water with loved ones!

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Orange Creamsicle Mimosa 

This sweet summertime treat can easily become your next party drink by just adding champagne!  

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Ingredients:

4 oz. champagne or prosecco

½ oz. vanilla vodka

2 cups orange juice

1 cup half and half

1 teaspoon super-fine granulated sugar

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Instructions:

Fill a shaker with ice and add orange juice, half and half, sugar and vanilla vodka and shake well. Strain ingredients into a champagne flute and slowly fill glass to the top with champagne or prosecco.

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Mermaid Mimosa 

As this beloved breakfast beverage has many variations ranging from the Tiffany Mimosa to the Poinsettia, this aquatic green version is perfect for sweet-toothed seafarers. 

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Ingredients:

4 oz. champagne or prosecco

1 oz. Blue Curaçao

1 oz. melon liqueur

2 oz. pineapple juice

Sugar and simple syrup for rim

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Instructions: 

Fill a shaker with ice and add Blue Curaçao, melon liqueur and pineapple juice and shake well. Strain ingredients into a champagne flute and slowly fill glass to the top with champagne or prosecco. For sugared rim, use empty champagne flute before filling contents into glass and fill one plate with simple syrup and one plate with rim. Circle rim of glass in simple syrup then immediately into sugar until it sticks.