The drink is similar to the Canchánchara, which consists of the same ingredients except for the sparkling wine. The mixture is then topped up with sparkling wine.
The basis for the Airmail Cocktail is a sour mixture of rum, lime juice and honey (or honey syrup), which are first shaken on ice in a cocktail shaker and then strained into a pre-cooled Cocktail glass. In the 2010s, however, the cocktail experienced another boom by being mentioned in the ‘ PDT Cocktail Book’ (2011) and by the promotion of alcoholic drinks by the brand Bacardí. In the following decades, the cocktail wasn't very popular, having been published rarely. The cocktail gained further popularity when the recipe was mentioned in the Handbook for Hosts in Esquire magazine in 1949. As far as the Airmail Cocktail is concerned, Whitfield commented on it ‘It ought to make you fly high’.
Whitfield had collected numerous drinks from the years of prohibition and provided them with comments partly in laconic style. In his recipe collections, Just Cocktails (1939) and Here's How (1941), the author W.C. In 1941, the recipe was published in a mixology book. Shortly after, the Airmail Cocktail appeared for the first time in an advertising brochure of the then still Cuba-based rum manufacturer Bacardí. Since 1925, flights were available from Key West to Havana, and in 1930, a regular airmail service was established to and from the island. Cuba, among other countries, benefited from this as a pronounced bar and cocktail culture began developing on the island in the 1920s. Because of prohibition, Americans were only able to legally drink alcohol abroad until 1933. In those years when international telephone connections were still a rarity, airmail was the fastest means of communication across national borders. in the 1920s or 1930s.Īirmail Cocktail is also a brand of ready-to-drink cocktails created and produced in Cognac (France) since 2020.Īs with the slightly older Aviation cocktail, to whose recipe there is no similarity, the name is reminiscent of aviation which developed rapidly at that time. It was probably created during or shortly after the period of prohibition in the United States of America or on Cuba, i.e. The Airmail or Air Mail (also Airmail cocktail) is a classic cocktail based on rum, lime or lemon juice, honey, and sparkling wine. When ready to serve, shake the pre-batch with ice, strain into a wine glass and top with champagne or dry sparkling wine.Airmail Cocktail, garnished with a postal stamp The cocktail can be pre-batched for same day use by combining the first three ingredients in a glass bottle and keeping the premix refrigerated. The sesame leatherwood honey syrup is prepared using the sous-vide method but for the home bartender, it can be made on a stove top. The use of sesame infused leatherwood honey syrup adds another layer to the drink that complements the venue’s Mexican food. Named after the Airmail cocktail on which it is based, the Aero Mexico tequila cocktail by Reece Griffiths, Venue Manager at Chula Sydney substitutes tequila for rum, keeping it light with fresh agave notes.
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