No. 02

Prosecco CocktailsBellini

Name: Bellini
Prep time: 5 min
Total time: 5 min
Yield: 1 drink
Cuisine: Italian
Ingredients: 4 oz Bella Principessa Prosecco DOC, chilled; 2 oz white peach purée

Harry’s Bar, Venice

2Prosecco

1white peach

White peach purée topped with Prosecco, one part to two1, in a chilled flute with no ice. Stir once, and let the colour do the decorating.

By Michael Goldstein · 5 min read

The recipe

Flute · no ice

Drinks

Pour it

4 ozBella Principessa Goldchilled
2 ozWhite peach puréechilled; fresh, frozen or bottled

Poured with the Gold, our Brut: the classic Bellini. Swap in the Rosé, our blush Prosecco DOC Rosé, also Brut: the peach picks up a red‑berry perfume.

Poured with the Rosé, our blush Prosecco DOC Rosé, also Brut: the peach picks up a red‑berry perfume. With the Gold, it’s the crisp classic.

Tap each step as you go.

Salute.

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Why white peaches?

They give the soft pink the drink is named for. Yellow peaches make a deeper orange, tarter drink. Lovely, but a different one.

Which Prosecco for a Bellini?

A dry, fresh one. The peach brings the sweetness; she brings the lift. Pour the Pink for a blush‑pink, berry‑edged Bellini.

GoldDOC Brut

Bella Principessa Prosecco DOC Rosé Brut

PinkDOC Rosé Brut

The Prosecco in this recipe: Bella Principessa, at ProseccoWine.com.

The Story

The drink people fly
to Venice to order.

A colour you can taste.

Giuseppe Cipriani created it at Harry’s Bar in Venice, sometime between 1934 and 1948, and named it for the soft pink in the paintings of Giovanni Bellini2. It’s the only cocktail named after a painter’s palette.

Two ingredients, one temptation.

Somewhere along the way, someone reached for the peach schnapps, and a legend became a sugar rush. The real one is softer, fresher and pinker. That’s the whole secret.

Your turn.

You’re here because you had one somewhere wonderful and want that feeling at your own table. Peel two peaches, chill a bottle of Bella Principessa, and set out the good flutes. Venice travels.

Behind the Bar

Four ways
to lose the pink.

Errori da Evitare

Bella Principessa Social Club

Peach schnapps

Sweeter, stronger, and nothing like the original.

A blender on high

It whips in air and the drink foams over. Press or mash the peaches.

Ice in the glass

Chill the purée, the wine and the flute instead.

A pitcher made early

Keep the purée cold and add the Prosecco as you pour.

Salute.

Variations

The Bellini
family.

RossiniStrawberry purée.PucciniFresh mandarin juice.

✻TintorettoPomegranate juice: the painter’s red.

×6For a crowdOne bottle makes six, with about 1½ cups of purée.

Bellini questions.

What is in a Bellini?

White peach purée and Prosecco. That’s all.

What’s the ratio for a Bellini?

One part peach purée to two parts Prosecco.

Is a Bellini served with ice?

No. Chill the ingredients and the glass instead.

Why Prosecco and not Champagne?

The Bellini was born in the Veneto, Prosecco’s home. Prosecco’s light fruit lifts the peach; Champagne’s toasty notes compete with it.

Please enjoy responsibly: 21+ only, and plan a safe way home.

Sources

Any brand named here belongs to its owner and is named only to describe the recipe; Bella Principessa is independent of those brands and their owners.

Written by

Michael Goldstein

Founder and Creative Director, Bella Principessa

He believes the best introductions happen over a glass, and that time with family and friends, old and new, is the real luxury. He writes here about the brand and the people who share it.

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