Mai Tai Recipe

• 1 ozaged rhum agricole
• 1 ozaged Jamaican rum
• 1 ozfresh lime juice (reserve the shell)
• 1/2 ozorange curaçao
• 1/2 ozorgeat

Preparation

1. 1.

   Shake all of the ingredients with 2 scoops of crushed ice for around 10 seconds. Pour unstrained into a double Old Fashioned glass. Sink the spent lime shell in the drink, then garnish with mint.

2. 2.

   TIPTrader Vic’s version would have been made with a 17-year-old Jamaican rum by Wray & Nephew—a product whose coveted status and rarity today makes it valued in the thousands at auction. Berry recommends a blend of rhum agricole and dark rum to mimic the 1980s editions of the Trader Vic’s restaurant Mai Tai. “I prefer Coruba Dark or Appleton Estate Extra 12-Year as my Jamaican rum, and either Rum JM V.O., Neisson Élevé Sous Bois, or Rhum Clement VSOP as my Martinique,” he says.