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December 04, 2008

Cocktail Recipe: The São Paulo Iced Tea

The Rumdood (née Matt Robold) talks a bit about the Leblon-sponsored Thursday Drink Night and shares his favorite, the São Paulo Iced Tea.

São Paulo Iced Tea

  • 2 oz Leblon Cachaça
  • 1 oz Absolut Peach Vodka
  • 1 oz Gin
  • 0.5 oz Cointreau
  • 0.5 oz Lemon Juice
  • 0.5 oz Lime Juice
  • 0.5 oz Simple Syrup

Shake all ingredients with ice, strain into a tall glass with ice and top with soda.  Garnish with a sprig of mint.

Matt says:

What I really enjoy about this drink is the way the strong, overripe fruit notes of the cachaca play with the citrus juice and the peach flavor of the vodka.  The drink is light and refreshing.  Winter is the completely wrong season for sipping this drink (but hello new favorite summertime drink!), but I can't stop making these and toying with little changes to the recipe to suit my mood.

It occurs to me that this is Thursday night! However, I've got some packing to do. Heading to Hong Kong and Sydney. If any of my readers know where I can have myself some good cachaça while I'm out there, let me know. Tchau 'till then...

Posted by on December 04, 2008 at 07:28 PM in Cocktails, Leblon |

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This recipe looks great. Recently I was making a regular Long Island Iced Tea but the gin w as out of reach, so I replaced with the mild LeBlon cachaca. Just as good... hard to go wrong with so many good flavors. Try making your recipe electric with a float of tequila.

Posted by: Dragos | December 17, 2008 at 08:40 PM

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