Photo and recipe by Les Moyens du Bar
Brazil's emblematic cocktail, the Caipirinha, like many cocktails, has medicinal origins... containing a lot of lime juice, the vitamin C fought scurvy...
Ingredients
- 4 wedges of fresh lime
- 4 pieces watermelon
- 1 oz melon syrup (Marie Brizard watermelon syrup)
- 1.5 oz lime juice
- 2 oz Cachaça Leblon
- Tonic pink grapefruit 1642
Preparation:
- Place all ingredients except the 1642 in a Highball glass .
- Using a pestle, lightly crush the ingredients to extract the flavours.
- Fill the glass with ice cubes and stir lightly.
- Topper with Tonic pink grapefruit 1642 and garnish with a piece of watermelon on a bamboo spike.
Cheers!
