Sparkling Strawberry Shrub
This cocktail is best served over jumbo ice cubes. You can make jumbo ice cubes in a square or ball shaped ice cube mold in your freezer.
Ingredients
- 1 cup strawberries, capped and chopped
- 1 cup water
- 1 1/2 cups extra fine sugar available at Fresh Market
- 1/2 cup rice wine vinegar
- rosé sparkling wine
- 2 large ice cubes
- Rosemary sprig or fresh mint sprig and strawberry for garnish
Instructions
- Muddle the strawberries with a muddler or wooden spoon in a mason jar. Add water and sugar and stir to combine. After the sugar has begun to dissolve, add the rice wine vinegar and stir to combine all of the ingredients.
- Cover and refrigerate. The shrub can be stored, tightly covered, in the refrigerator for up to one week.
- To make the cocktail: Place one ounce strawberry shrub in a cocktail glass. Add ice cubes. Stir and top with rosé sparkiling wine and give it another little stir. Garnish with rosemary or mint sprig and fresh strawberry.