Measurements [metric]
- One bottle of sparkling wine
- Creme de cassis
- Champagne flutes, the more narrow the better
In each champagne flute, fill one-third with creme de cassis. Top with sparkling wine.
One bottle of sparkling wine will make six to eight kir royale.
Substitue white wine for the sparking wine for a kir.
My Lieblingsgetränke. My Tante Heidi introduced me to these when I lived with her and Onkel Ernst while working for IBM. Often, Heidi and I would finish a bottle of champagne together, then I would carefully walk down the two flights of winding stairs to my room on the ground floor.