Punch bowls are perfect for when you’re hosting an event (which will happen again one day), and the thought of making everyone an individual cocktail makes you want to climb up a tree and live there. Now, top everything with your sparkling wine, give your cocktail a brief stir with your bar spoon, and garnish with a lime wheel. We prefer Champagne because it’s one of the most delicious things on earth - but any dry sparkling wine like prosecco or cava will be great as well. You should have room for about 3 more ounces of liquid (give or take an ounce) in your glass - and that’s where the sparkling wine comes in.
The flavor should still come through in the final cocktail.Īfter you shake, pour the contents of your shaker into a highball filled to the rim with ice. Yes, that’s a little shorter than usual, but we’re going to be topping this drink with sparkling wine, so we don’t actually want this rum mixture to be too waterlogged. Next, you’re just going to give everything a good shake. Unlike a white rum, it’ll bring some spicy/carmely notes to the table - but if you just have dark rum, that works too. 5 ounce honey syrup to your shaker.įor an Airmail, we like any good, amber-colored rum with a little bit of age on it. Just be sure to actually measure equal parts honey and hot water (and not just eyeball it), or the ratio is going to be off, and your cocktail won’t taste right. So take equal parts honey and (very) hot water, then stir until your honey is dissolved. Why honey syrup? Because honey on its own isn’t really going to dissolve in your cocktail.
Put half an ounce straight into your shaker. So many great cocktails start with fresh lime juice.