French 75

Description
The French 75 is a cocktail of gin and champagne flavoured with lemon. Named after the powerful French 75-millimeter howitzer cannon, this potent cocktail is made by combining gin or brandy, lemon juice and cracked ice in a glass and filling it with champagne.
 * French 75 from the Wikibooks Bartending Guide—original source of recipe, licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License
 * Serves: 1

Ingredients

 * 1½ oz (40 ml) gin
 * 2 tsp caster (superfine) sugar
 * 1 tbsp lemon juice
 * Champagne

Garnish

 * cherry or orange slice

Directions

 * 1) In a flute or collins glass add the gin.
 * 2) Top with a half flute of sparkling wine or champagne.
 * 3) Add sugar (it will fizz up so make sure the flute isn't full yet) then top off with more sparkling wine.