Serves one. Double for two.
Ingredients:
- ½ tsp sugar
- 8 mint leaves
- thin slice of ginger (about as round as a nickel)
- 2 oz Venturi-Schulze Verjus
- ice
- 1½ oz rum
- ginger ale or ginger beer
- 5 additional mint leaves
Mix first three ingredients and mash with the back of a spoon. Add the verjus and stir until the sugar is dissolved. Fill a highball glass with ice, strain the mixture into the glass, add the rum and stir. Fill the glass with ginger ale and stir in the 5 whole mint leaves. Viva!
Verjus is available at Venturi Schulze (visit their beautiful vineyard or shortcut it to their website). Also available at Plenty.
