royal or royale (sometimes even exaggerated into imperial)
From The Oxford Companion to Spirits & Cocktails
designates, in the lexicon of mixed drinks, an existing drink that has been enhanced by adding wine, and particularly champagne, to it.
See champagne cocktails, punch.
Wondrich, David. Punch, or The Delights and Dangers of the Flowing Bowl. New York: Perigee, 2010.
By: David Wondrich
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Thomas Rowlandson’s 1810 print of the West India Docks, the center of Britain’s rum trade.
Wondrich Collection.
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Thomas Rowlandson’s 1810 print of the West India Docks, the center of Britain’s rum trade. Source: Wondrich Collection.
This definition is from The Oxford Companion to Spirits & Cocktails, edited by David Wondrich (Editor-in-Chief) and Noah Rothbaum (Associate Editor).