Air Mail

Air Mail
Yields1 Serving
Prep Time2 mins

Rum and champagne is an unusual combination but one which works well in this 1940s cocktail.

 60 ml golden rum
 15 ml honey syrup
 15 ml freshly squeezed lime juice
 150 ml brut champagne
1

Add ice to a mixing jug.

2

Add rum, honey syrup and lime juice to the jug and stir thorouhgly.

3

Pour, unstrained, into a highball gass.

4

Top off with champagne.

Drinks historian David Wondrich has said this cocktail randomly popped up as if by "spontaneous generation". Its name though is easily explaned: "Way back when, airmail was the last word in getting something from point A to point B. And in fact, this one'll do just that to you, but quick. So quick that, if we were inclined to take such liberties, we'd rename it the 'Email.'"

[cocktail-ingredients]

Ingredients

 60 ml golden rum
 15 ml honey syrup
 15 ml freshly squeezed lime juice
 150 ml brut champagne

Directions

1

Add ice to a mixing jug.

2

Add rum, honey syrup and lime juice to the jug and stir thorouhgly.

3

Pour, unstrained, into a highball gass.

4

Top off with champagne.

Air Mail

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