Air Mail

A Prohibition-era cousin of the Daiquiri, the Air Mail builds a gold-rum sour over honey and fresh lime, then lifts the whole thing with a float of chilled champagne. It first surfaced in a Bacardí promotional pamphlet around 1930 and reached print in W.C. Whitfield's "Here's How" (1941), whose note promised it "ought to make you fly high." Bright, honeyed, and effervescent, it drinks lighter than its proof suggests.

RefreshingClassicCarbonated

Ingredients

  • 1 ozAged Rum
  • 0.5 ozLime Juice(freshly squeezed)
  • 0.5 ozHoney Syrup(2:1 honey to water)
  • 1 ozChampagne(chilled, to top)

Garnish: Lime Wheel

Preparation

shaken · Coupe · None

  1. 1.

    add

    Combine the aged rum, lime juice, and honey syrup in a shaker with ice.

  2. 2.

    shake

    Shake hard until well chilled.

  3. 3.

    strain

    Double-strain into a chilled coupe.

  4. 4.

    top

    Top with chilled champagne and stir gently to combine.

  5. 5.

    garnish

    Optionally garnish with a lime wheel.

Flavor Profile

fizz
44%
dilution
43%
sweet
35%
fruity
26%
citrus
21%
sour
21%
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