HOW TO MAKE A MOJITO

50ml Golden Rum
25ml Fresh Lime Juice
15ml Gomme
6 Mint Leaves
Top Soda Water

Squeeze four lime wedges into a glass and drop wedges in. Add all ingredients excluding the soda. Top with crushed ice and stir vigorously. Top with soda and garnish.

Mint Sprig and Lime Wedge

Like many cocktails, the true origins of the Mojito have been lost in the dawn of time. The origin is heavily disputed though, particularly by “La Bodeguita del medio” in Havana, Cuba. This restaurant-bar claims to be the cocktail’s birthplace, it has also been claimed that African slaves working in the Cuban sugar cane fields created the drink from “Aguardiente de cana” (literally “firewater of the sugar cane”) – a simple sugar cane alcohol. Certainly, the name “Mojito” fits this story, stemming from the word “Mojo”, meaning “to place a little spell” …. who knows where this drink originated from?