Kir Royale in POV — a refined French classic built on just two ingredients: crème de cassis and Champagne. It’s a sparkling variation of Kir, a drink named after Félix Kir, the former mayor of Dijon, who helped popularize cassis with white wine in Burgundy. The Royale version swaps wine for Champagne, making it lighter, brighter, and more celebratory.
In this POV video, you’ll see the full build step by step: chilled flute preparation, measured crème de cassis, gentle topping with Champagne, and the final balance between sweetness, fruit, and bubbles without overhandling the drink.
The POV format is useful because it shows the exact hand movements, bottle control, pouring angle, and service rhythm from the bartender’s perspective — the details that usually get lost in regular cocktail tutorials.
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Enjoy cheff 🍾
The classic kir drink was invented in burgandy when the wine producers could not drink their Chardonnay as it was sold to consumers , so they grew aligote to drink for themselves (the only other white grape allowed to grow in burgandy). However the aligote they grew wasn’t very good so they added cassis to the wine as the berries also grew locally to try and make up for the poor taste.
Eventually this turned into Kir Royale!