Name: You've Got Mail
Prep time: 4 min
Total time: 4 min
Yield: 1
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 60 ml Cachaça; 15 ml Orange juice (freshly squeezed); 15 ml Lime juice (freshly squeezed); 7.5 ml Sugar syrup 'rich' (2 sugar to 1 water, 65.0°Brix); 7.5 ml Honey syrup (3 honey to 1 water); 50 ml Champagne/sparkling wine brut

Serve in a

Collins glass

Photographed in an

UB Koto Collins 35cl

Garnish:

Orange slice wheel

How to make:

SHAKE first 5 ingredients with ice and fine strain into ice-filled glass. TOP with sparkling wine.

2 fl oz	Cachaça
1/2 fl oz	Orange juice (freshly squeezed)
1/2 fl oz	Lime juice (freshly squeezed)
1/4 fl oz	Sugar syrup 'rich' (2 sugar to 1 water, 65.0°Brix)
1/4 fl oz	Honey syrup (3 honey to 1 water)
1 2/3 fl oz	Brut champagne/sparkling wine
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Recipe contains the following allergens:

Brut champagne/sparkling wine – Sulphur Dioxide/Sulphites

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Review:

Superbly refreshing - cachaça and citrus with flavoursome honeyed richness, invigorated with sparkling wine.

History:

Adapted from Dave Wondrich's riff on the classic Airmail.

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Nutrition:

One serving of You've Got Mail contains 219 calories.

Alcohol content:

1.6 standard drinks
14.23% alc./vol. (28.46° proof)
22.1 grams of pure alcohol

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