Elevate your holiday with a Sparkling Purple Gin Cocktail! Empress Gin & Elderflower Liqueur make this champagne cocktail a party favorite. With only 5 ingredients, it's elegant and sparkly, but super easy to make.
The holiday season is the perfect time for a pretty purple gin cocktail! Like our Clementine Champagne Cocktail, this hand crafted Empress Gin cocktail hits all the right notes for entertaining. We like to make a few to share when our guests arrive, so we can all sip together as we catch up and cook!
The delicate, citrus flavors make it a great pairing for traditional Thanksgiving dishes. We love it with our famous Apple Cider Roasted Brussels Sprouts, but its clean flavors make it easy to sip with just about anything you're nibbling on as you prepare the holiday meal.
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Ingredients
- PURPLE GIN: EMPRESS 1908 GIN is what gives this cocktail its pretty color
- ELDERFLOWER LIQUEUR: we used St Germain French Elderflower Liqueur
- GRAPEFRUIT JUICE: fresh squeezed is best
- CHAMPAGNE: SPARKLING WINE or PROSECCO can be used
- EDIBLE FLOWERS and SAGE: (to garnish)
see recipe card for quantities.
What is Empress 1908 Gin (Purple Gin)?
Empress Gin has the most beautiful, all-natural indigo hue that is derived from butterfly pea flower and other botanicals: juniper, rose, coriander seed, grapefruit peel, ginger root, cinnamon bark. It has a mild, classic flavor.
When you add tonic water or citrus (in this case grapefruit juice and champagne) to Empress Gin, it transforms from vivid indigo to a delicate soft violet pink.
How to make a purple gin cocktail
- Chill a martini glass or a coupe glass by filling it with ice and water while mixing the drink.
- Place Empress Gin, grapefruit juice and Elderflower Liqueur in a cocktail shaker with ice. Cap and shake for 30 seconds.
- Pour ice water from glass. Using a strainer, pour cocktail into glass. Then add sparkling wine.
- Garnish with organic (edible) flower or grapefruit peel.
Tools you need
- COCKTAIL SHAKER
- COCKTAIL STRAINER
- COUPE GLASSES, WINE GLASSES, OR MARTINI GLASSES
- COCKTAIL PICKS
This post is sponsored by our friends at Empress 1908 Gin. All opinions are our own.
FAQ
We love these coupe glasses to create a fancy, festive look. You can also use wine glasses or champagne glasses.
Yes! It will taste similarly, but your drink will be pink/orange. The Pea Flower Indigo gin is what creates the purple hue.
Due to the complicated flavor profile of this drink, there is no mocktail version. We recommend trying our Lavender Lemonade instead.
Edible flowers can be found at farmers' markets or in the produce section at large gourmet food markets (near the packaged herbs).
More Empress Gin cocktails
Lavender Lemonade Cocktail: a light and refreshing sip made with limoncello, lemonade and homemade lavender simple syrup.
Spring Fling Gin Cocktail: this beautiful twist on a classic gin and tonic, this cocktail is a work of art in a glass
Festive Empress Gin Fizz: our most popular holiday cocktail, this sweet and sparkling stunner is made with fresh cranberries and ginger beer
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Sparkling Purple Gin Cocktail recipe
Elevate your holiday with a Sparkling Purple Gin Cocktail! Empress Gin & Elderflower Liqueur make this champagne cocktail a party favorite.
- Total Time: 45 minute
- Yield: 1 drink 1x
Ingredients
- 1 ½ ounces Empress Gin
- 1 ounce Elderflower Liqueur (we used St Germain Elderflower Liqueur)
- 1 ½ ounces grapefruit juice
- 3 ounces sparkling wine, champagne, or prosecco
Instructions
- Chill a martini glass or a coupe glass by filling it with ice and water while mixing the drink.
- Place Empress Gin, grapefruit juice and Elderflower Liqueur in a cocktail shaker with ice. Cap and shake for 30 seconds.
- Pour ice water from glass. Using a strainer, pour cocktail into glass. Then add sparkling wine.
- Garnish with organic (edible) flower or grapefruit peel.
- Prep Time: 5 minutes
- Cook Time: n/a
- Category: cocktails
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 cocktail
- Calories: 239
- Sugar: 17.3 g
- Sodium: 10.4 mg
- Fat: 0.1 g
- Carbohydrates: 17.6 g
- Protein: 0.3 g
- Cholesterol: 0 mg
Keywords: Empress Gin, Empress 1908 Gin, purple gin, indigo gin, elderflower liqueur, violet, cocktail, Thanksgiving, holiday, champagne, prosecco
Erin Middlebrooks says
Where do you get the beautiful glasses you used for your drinks?
★★★★★
Jackie says
Hi Erin,
Thanks for stopping by!! We got these coupe glasses at CB2. We love them too! Cheers!
Sum says
Where did you get edible flowers from and little garnish sticks?? Please
Jackie says
Hi Sum,
thanks so much for stopping by! We bought the edible flowers in the produce section of our local market (Giant Eagle), near the herbs. The garnish sticks are either from Sur la Table or Williams Sonoma. We hope you enjoy the cocktail! Cheers!