Verjus Caipirinha Highball

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.