From David Lebovitz
Garnish: lime wheel
Add all ingredients to a cocktail shaker filled with ice and shake until well-chilled, about 15 seconds.
Strain into a chilled coupe glass and garnish with a lime wheel.
Ernest Hemingway was fond of daiquiris, a classic three-ingredient cocktail made with rum, lime juice, and sugar syrup. Apparently, he didn’t like the sugar syrup component, so this drink was born at El Floridita bar in Havana, where Hemingway liked to drink. <i>The New York Times</i> restaruant critic William Grimes called El Floridita “a close contender with Harry’s New York Bar in Paris for the title of the most famous bar in the world.” According to Grimes’ excellent book <i>Straight Up or On the Rocks: The Story of the American Cocktail</i>, Hemingway would drink up to a dozen of these daiquiris at one sitting, made with Bacardi white rum, fresh lime, and grapefruit juice, and six drops of maraschino liqueur blended with ice and served in large goblets.