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Cherry Mojito

Name: Cherry Mojito
Total time: 5 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 14 fresh Mint leaves; 40 ml Light gold rum 1-3yo; 20 ml Cherry brandy; 15 ml Lime juice; 7.5 ml Sugar syrup 'rich' (2:1); 15 ml Soda water

Difford’s Guide

Discerning Drinkers (14)

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Ingredients
14 fresh	Mint leaves
1 1/3 fl oz	Light gold rum (1-3 year old molasses column)
2/3 fl oz	Cherry (brandy) liqueur
1/2 fl oz	Lime juice (freshly squeezed)
1/4 fl oz	Sugar syrup 'rich' (2 sugar to 1 water) 65.0°Brix
1/2 fl oz	Thomas Henry Soda Water

How to make

Glassware

Serve in a Collins glass

Prepare

Select and pre-chill a COLLINS GLASS.
Prepare garnish of mint sprigs bouquet.

Method

Gently MUDDLE mint in base of shaker (just to bruise).
ADD first 4 ingredients to glass and two-thirds fill with crushed ice.
CHURN (stir) with bar spoon.
Fill glass with more crushed ice and briefly CHURN.
TOP with soda.

Garnish

Garnish with mint sprigs bouquet.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Alcohol content:

We don't have enough information to calculate the alc./vol., but based on known ingredients, this recipe contains at least:

16.4 grams of pure alcohol

History

One of many cherry riffs on the classic Mojito. This one by yours truly in December 2021.

More cocktails by Simon Difford

Review

A Mojito with a touch of cherry. Beware, this is no cherry bomb and those looking for something fruitier and sweeter should add 2.5 to 5ml (½ to 1 barspoon) sugar syrup.

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Leslie Premium Member 1y

PS: thanks for the hint about the sugar syrup in the Mojito article, I love my drinks on the tart side but this one needed the 1/4oz to allow you to taste the cherry, just as you said. I can personally attest to the lovely difference it makes! 😉

Leslie Premium Member 1y

This was adorable but confess I switched out the Cherry Heering for MacGuinness Cherry “Brandy” because Cherry Heering makes me think of and taste cough medicine. Perfect application for the pretend stuff, lovely on a sweltering tropical afternoon (even though we are many latitudes north of the tropics)!

Chris Dimal 2y

Heretical, but I like this better than a Mojito. I just find that the lightly muddling, then churning works better than just either separately. Suits a lukewarm winter (which is common in many parts of Asia), or a Christmas in the southern hemisphere.