Classic cocktail
Air Mail
A 1930s Bacardi recipe later printed in Esquire. Gold rum, lime, and honey shaken and topped with Champagne.
- Glass
- Highball glass
- Method
- Shake
- Difficulty
- Easy
- Ingredients
- 4
Ingredients
- 1½ oz Aged Rum, gold rum such as Appleton or El DoradoMore Aged Rum cocktails
- ¾ oz Fresh Lime Juice
- ¾ oz Honey Syrup, scant; 2:1 honey to water
- 2 oz Champagne, topMore Champagne cocktails
Garnish: Lime wheel
How to make it
- Add the rum, lime juice, and honey syrup to a shaker with ice.
- Shake until well chilled.
- Strain into a chilled highball glass and top with Champagne.
- Garnish with a lime wheel.
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