Video: How to Make Agua de Valencia (aka Your New Fave Cocktail)

Also known as Valencian Water, this cocktail made with fresh orange juice, champagne, vodka, and gin can be served in a pitcher. The name Valencia comes from the Valencia orange named after the city in Spain, but they are actually grown in America. The Valencia orange is a hybrid fruit, a cross between a local orange variety and a sweet orange from Spain. This cocktail is simple to make and only gets better as it sits and hangs out in the fridge. And follow along here! 

Yvette Marquez-Sharpnack is the blogger and recipe developer behind MuyBuenoCookbook.com, where she honors her Mexican heritage through Latin foods. She is the co-author of Muy Bueno: Three Generations of Authentic Mexican Flavor (also available in Spanish), a recipe developer for Betty Crocker, and a regular contributor to Parade.com.

Recipe from Latin Twist: Traditional & Modern Cocktails by Yvette Marquez-Sharpnack and Vianney Rodriguez reprinted courtesy of Hippocrene Books, Inc.