Orange juice, then sparkling wine — and the order is most of the recipe.
beClink Editorial·August 11, 2026
Time
2 min
Serves
1
Base
Sparkling wine
Glass
Flute
Two ingredients, no equipment, and almost all of the difference comes down to temperature and the order you pour in. The one adjustment worth making without alcohol is the ratio: dealcoholized sparkling wine runs sweeter than the bottle it is modeled on, so a little less juice keeps the drink from tipping over into breakfast dessert.
We used Lyre’s Classico Grande Sparkling Wine. Swap it for any of these.
From your kitchen: orange juice, orange wedge, rosemary sprig.
In this glass
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Make It Yours
Peach
Peach purée instead of orange, and it becomes a bellini. Use less — purée is heavier than juice.
Grapefruit
Sharper, and it handles a sweeter sparkling better than orange does.
Pomegranate
A tablespoon in the bottom of the glass. Mostly for the color, and it works.
Sparkling tea
In place of the wine. Tannic and genuinely dry, and it stands up to the juice rather than disappearing under it.
Less juice
Take it to 30ml. Closer to a wine you are drinking than a juice you have lengthened.
A splash of aperitif
10ml of bitter orange in the bottom of the glass. Turns a mimosa into something you would serve after noon.
Bitters
Two dashes on top. The cheapest way to make a two-ingredient drink taste considered.
How to Serve & Pair
In a cold flute, immediately. A mimosa poured and left on a counter for five minutes is a different drink, and the loss is all bubbles. If you are serving several, pour the juice into every glass first and top them one at a time.
Common Questions
What is the right ratio?
Equal parts is the traditional build. Here it is worth going a little heavier on the wine — around three parts sparkling to two parts juice — because dealcoholized sparkling already carries more sweetness than the original, and an equal measure of orange juice pushes the whole glass sweet. Taste your bottle first and adjust from there.
Which sparkling wine should I use?
The driest one you have. A bottle labeled brut in this category sits roughly where an off-dry wine would, so anything sweeter than that will fight the juice. Sparkling tea is the drier option again if you want the drink to taste of something other than orange.
Can I make a jug for a crowd?
Not a jug, but you can get close. Pour the juice into every glass ahead of time and keep them cold, then top each one from the bottle as people arrive. Mixing the two in advance costs you the bubbles, and the bubbles are the reason anybody wants one.
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