Pomegranate-Champagne Punch

Ingredients

• 1 ice block
• ½ cup water
• ½ cup sugar
• 2 750-ml bottles brut Champagne
• 1 ½ cups white rum
• 1 ¼ cups pomegranate juice
• 1 large lemon
• + 2 more ingredients
• • Pomegranate seeds
  • Fresh mint leaves

Bring 1/2 cup water and sugar to boil in small saucepan, stirring until sugar dissolves. Simmer 5 minutes. Cool syrup completely. Combine Champagne, rum, and pomegranate juice in punch bowl. Add enough syrup to sweeten to taste. Mix in lemon slices, pomegranate seeds, and mint leaves. Add ice blo...

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