Medio y Medio Recipe
Half sweet sparkling wine, half dry white: a light, bubbly Uruguayan aperitif that drinks like a soft champagne.
- Category: Popular
- Glass: Wine glass
- ABV: 11%
- Difficulty: Easy
Ingredients
- Sweet sparkling white wine90 ml
- Dry white wine90 ml
How to Make It
- Chill both wines until they are very cold.
- Pour equal parts dry white wine and sweet sparkling wine into a chilled wine glass.
- Do not stir — let the bubbles do the mixing.
- Serve immediately as an aperitif.
Garnish
None — served plain and very cold
The Story
The mix is said to have been created at a bar in Montevideo's Mercado del Puerto in the late 19th century; its name simply describes the fifty-fifty proportion, and it is still poured there today.
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