Meritage Taste Off: Ginger Pomegranate Champagne Cocktail

Ingredients

1 cup Pomegranate Juice

1 Tablespoon Sugar (I used ½ Tbs)

1 ½ inch fresh ginger, peeled and sliced thinly

4 Tbs orange juice

1 tsp per flute Triple Sec, Cointreau or Grand Marnier (we used Triple Sec)

1 750 ml bottle brut sparkling wine, chilled

Directions

Combine pomegranate juice, sugar and ginger in a saucepan over high heat; reduce to 1/3 cup, stirring intermittently.  Refrigerate (I made this several days in advance and kept the ginger slices in the liquid until just before serving.)

In each champagne flute, pour 4 tsp pomegranate syrup, 1 Tbs orange juice, 1 tsp orange liqueur.  Top off with sparkling wine.