Mango Tango

1.5 oz Mango Pureé

1.5 oz Silver Rum or Cachaça

1 oz Orange juice

0.5 oz Lime juice

2-3 tsp. simple syrup or agave nectar

Combine ingredients with crushed ice in a cocktail shaker.  Beat lightly. Strain and pour into a chilled, sugar-rimmed Martini glass.  Garnish with a citrus twist.

Caipirinha*

2.5 oz fresh squeezed Lime juice

2.5 oz Cachaça

3 Tsp. Sugar or Simple Syrup

Mix ingredients vigorously to dissolve the sugar.  Serve over crushed ice in tumbler. Garnish with mint.  *This cocktail rewards personalization - adjust ingredients to suit your taste.

Bloody Madras

1.5 oz Orange juice

1 oz Silver Rum or Cachaça

1.5 oz Blood Orange juice (may substitute Cranberry or Pomegranate juice)

Mix Orange juice and Cachaça or Rum with ice in a tall glass. Slowly pour the Blood Orange on top.  Garnish with citrus twist and/or wedge of Blood Orange.

Brazilian Wax

(Courtesy of Ivan Passos, Co-founder, JPVCo, home of Weber Haus cachaça

2 oz Cachaça

1 oz Pineapple juice

1 oz Club Soda

Triple Sec (according to taste)

Mix Cachaça, Pineapple juice and Triple Sec with ice in a tall glass. Pour in the Club Soda last to preserve the bubbly.

Painkiller

(Courtesy of Oxford Toussaint, ex-bartender of S/V Yankee Clipper, currently bartender on Petite Saint Vincent

2 oz Rum (Spiced)

3 oz Pineapple juice

1 oz Cream of Coconut

1 oz Orqnge Juice

Serve on the rocks, stir, then grate nutmeg on top.  Finish the presentation by filling the straw with an overproof rum.

The Old Mill Gold Rum Pumpkin Spiced Cider

(Courtesy of H. Malarkey Wall, President of The Old Mill Golden Rum)

In a handled latte mug mix:

0.5 oz Pumpkin syrup (Torani preferred)

1.5 oz  Gold Rum

1 Packet hot apple cider

Fill with Hot water

Sprinkle with cinnamon and nutmeg

Whipped Cream is optional

Enjoy!

‘Ti Punch ((Martinique creole for “Petit Punch”))

1 Fresh Lime

1/8 teaspoon Simple Syrup or Agave Nectar

1 1/2 oz. overproof Agricole rhum blanc

Slice one or two sections of rind from a fresh thin-skinned lime or two.  The slices should be almost twice as wide as a twist, and contain only a small amount of the lime pulp and juice..  You’re primarily interested in the bitter lime flavor from the rind, and secondarily the lime juice itself.  Twist the lime rind into a short glass to release its oil, and toss the rind into the glass.  Add the simple syrup.  Or substitute agave nectar for a bit more complexity (even though it is untraditional).  Add the rhum, then stir and slightly muddle the mix, enabling the alcohol to release the lime oils.  Add ice, rest for 2-5 minutes allowing the ice to melt slightly and the flavors to marry.  Stir gently and sip.  Warning - a proper ‘Ti punch is refreshing but packs a wallop - think of it as a Martinique Martini.  As the saying goes; “One is alright, Two is too many, and Three is not enough!”