Rum · Shake · Flute · 5 min
Air Mail
Also known as Airmail.
Aged rum, lime and honey topped with sparkling wine: a Daiquiri that has gone to a party. It was in print by 1941.
What's in it
- 30ml (1 oz) Aged rum
- 15ml (½ oz) Lime juice
- 15ml (½ oz) Honey syrupor honey loosened with a little warm water
- 60ml (2 oz) Sparkling wine
How to make it
- Chill a flute.
- Shake the rum, lime juice and honey syrup hard with ice.
- Strain into the flute and top slowly with sparkling wine.
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What cocktail can I make?Where it came from
The name probably nods to the airmail service that began linking Havana with the United States in 1930, and the earliest known recipe is thought to be in a Bacardí promotional booklet from the early 1930s. W.C. Whitfield printed it in his 1941 book Here's How, remarking that it ought to make you fly high, and it reappeared in David Embury's The Fine Art of Mixing Drinks and Esquire's Handbook for Hosts. After decades out of sight it came back in the 2010s, helped by The PDT Cocktail Book.
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