# Air Mail

Lightly aged rum, lime, and concentrated honey form a bright Cuban sour before Champagne turns it into a long, sparkling drink over ice.

Strength: 19% ABV before dilution

## Ingredients

- 45 ml [Aged rum](https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/aged-rum.md) — Use a lightly aged Cuban-style molasses-column rum, one to three years old.
- 15 ml [Fresh lime juice](https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/fresh-lime-juice.md)
- 15 ml [Honey syrup](https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/honey-syrup.md) — Use a concentrated syrup made with three parts honey to one part water by weight.
- 50 ml [Champagne](https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/champagne.md) — Use thoroughly chilled Brut Champagne.

## Glassware

Highball glass

## Garnish

- Mint sprig — Use a small fresh mint tip.

## Method

1. Shake the rum, fresh lime juice, and honey syrup with cubed ice until thoroughly chilled.
2. Fine-strain into a chilled highball glass filled with fresh cubed ice.
3. Top with the Champagne and lift once gently from bottom to top with a bar spoon.

## Related drinks

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- [Nui Nui](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/nui-nui.md): Aged rum, orange, and lime carry cinnamon, vanilla, allspice, and bitters in one of Donn Beach's most aromatic and spice-led tropical drinks.
- [Queen’s Park Swizzle](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/queens-park-swizzle.md): A high-octane Trinidadian swizzle that drives dark Demerara rum through fragrant mint, lime, sugar, and aromatic bitters.
- [Russian Spring Punch](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/russian-spring-punch.md): Cassis and lemon give vodka a vivid blackcurrant-sour core before dry sparkling wine stretches it into a cold, dangerous party drink.
- [Hotel Nacional](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/hotel-nacional.md): An elegant Cuban rum sour whose restrained pineapple, apricot, and lime suggest the tropics without sacrificing the spirit beneath them.

## References

- Canonical page: https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/air-mail
- Photograph: https://stirred.fyi/assets/cocktails/air-mail-70d66a05.webp
- Recipe source: https://www.diffordsguide.com/cocktails/recipe/27/air-mail