Name: Martinique Fizz
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 15 ml Lemon juice; 2 barspoon Powdered sugar; 30 ml Light gold rum 1-3yo; 20 ml Rye whiskey 50% abv; 15 ml Aged agricole rhum; 45 ml Soda (club soda) water

Martinique Fizz
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Serve in a Highball (max 10oz/300ml)

Ingredients:
¹⁄₂ oz	Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
2 barspoon	Powdered sugar (white sugar ground in mortar and pestle)
1 oz	Light gold rum (1-3 year old molasses column)
²⁄₃ oz	Straight rye whiskey (100 proof /50% alc./vol.)
¹⁄₂ oz	Rhum J.M. Terroir Volcanique
1 ¹⁄₂ oz	Thomas Henry Soda Water

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How to make:

Select and pre-chill a Highball (max 10oz/300ml) glass.
Prepare garnish of lemon slice wheel.
STIR lemon juice and sugar in base of shaker until all the sugar has dissolved.
Add other ingredients and SHAKE with ice.
FINE STRAIN into ice-filled glass.
TOP with soda and briefly stir.
Garnish with lemon slice wheel.

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

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Review:

Select the right glass [a "highball glass" means no larger than 10oz], appropriate and delicious rums, and take time to properly dissolve your powdered sugar, and you've a banging "short cocktail served long."

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History:

An adaptation of a 1930s cocktail from New York City's Hotel Martinique.

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Simon Sedgley

4th May at 14:12

A wonderfully refreshing cocktail. We added a 5ml float of Falernum at the end, with just a gentle final stir.

Robert Spain

28th February at 22:03

I quite liked the rye popping out among the rums. I used St James ambre, St Teresa and Balcones.

Collin Westgate

18th January at 00:28

This one's really unbelievable. With the combo I used (Real Mccoy 3 year rum, Rittenhouse Rye, and Baie Des Trésors - Fruits of the Rain), this drink comes out tasting primarily of that french-oak cask note from my aged rhum. It's almost like a french-oak cask soda, if such a thing were to exist. If you're as much of a fiend for that flavor as I am, this is an amazing easy sipper for it.

Paul Spreitzer

22nd August 2023 at 00:34

I'm thinking this may have been more refreshing on a warm afternoon, but I felt that the soda water made this one a bit too watery for me. I love the interplay of rye and rum (and rhum!), so that was enough to get me to try it again -- next time with 3/4 or 1 oz of soda water instead.

John Hinojos

14th July 2023 at 00:35

Outstanding. Perfect on a warm afternoon. We are big rum/rhum drinkers and found this wonderful.
Used a local California rye, Barbados gold rum, and Rhum JM from Martinique. While you can taste the various alcohols it is very easy to drink.

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