Sherry Caipirinha

Serve in a highball (max 10oz/300ml) glass

Prepare

1. 1 Select and pre-chill a HIGHBALL (MAX 10OZ/300ML) GLASS.
2. 2 Prepare garnish of stirrer (spoon, wooden lolly stick or stick cut from sugar cane).

Method

1. 3 Cut a ripe lime in half (from pole to pole) and remove the core from each half by cutting a V-shaped groove. (You'll need one-half of the lime per cocktail.) CHOP into wedges and each wedge chopped in half before dropping the resulting 6 or 8 lime chunks into the base of shaker.
2. 4 Add 3 bar spoons powdered sugar [or 15ml (½oz) sugar syrup 2:1] and MUDDLE.
3. 5 When sure the lime's juice is fully extracted and the sugar dissolved, ADD the sherry.
4. 6 POUR the muddled fruit, sugar and sherry into serving glass (preferably a 30cl / 10oz highball glass).
5. 7 FILL glass with small cubes or cracked ice. (If using large ice cubes, crack (rather than crush) four to five large ice cubes using an ICE TAPPER and drop into serving glass.)
6. 8 Briefly STIR before topping with more ice.

Garnish

1. 9 Serve with a stirrer (spoon, wooden lolly stick or stick cut from sugar cane) but no straws.