MOJITO!

Each year on July 11th, people across America raise a glass to mark National Mojito Day. We'll be celebrating with a featured cocktail menu for two weeks, from Thursday, July 6th – Wednesday, July 12.

The mojito typically consists of white rum, sugar, lime juice, sparkling water, and mint. Of course, there's plenty of wiggle room and our bar team always hits a home run putting the Fielding's spin on classic drinks you know and love!

THE MENU

BLACKBERRY MOJITO
Selva Rey white rum, blackberry mint syrup, pressed, fresh mint leaves, blackberries, blackberry soda 16

COCONUT MOJITO
Rum Haven coconut rum, cream of coconut, pressed lime, mint syrup, fresh mint, Topo Chico 15

CLASSIC MOJITO
Havana Club white rum, mint syrup, pressed lime, fresh mint 12

MANGO MADNESS
Flor de Caña 4yr rum, mango syrup, mint syrup, fresh mint, mango, pressed lime, Mango Jarito soda, half Chamoy & Tajín rim 16

LEMON CUCUMBER BASIL MOJITO
Flor de Caña 4yr rum, basil, cucumber, lemon, mint syrup, Topo Chico 14

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A BIT OF HISTORY

In the 1500s, Sir Francis Drake landed in Havana to sack the city of its gold. The invasion was unsuccessful, but luckily for us something good did come of it. His crew were suffering from dysentery and scurvy. Local South American Indians were known to have remedies for many diseases, so a small party went ashore to Cuba and came back with ingredients for a medicine. They used aguarediente de caña, mint leaves, and the juices from sugar cane and limes to put together a tonic which turned out to be effective. We know now that the lime juice was the helpful ingredient, but the others surely made it far more palatable! A cocktail named “El Draque” using very similar ingredients was known to be popular in Cuba after that time, and supposedly named after Drake himself.

It wouldn’t have been called a Mojito in these early days, so it’s possible that the African slaves were not the ones to invent the drink, but the ones to give it its modern name. The spanish word “mojadito” (meaning “a little wet”) and the Cuban lime-based seasoning “mojo” are other possible explanations for the name. However it began, the creation of the Bacardi company in the mid 1800s was most likely the cause of its spread and growth in popularity, and then Ernest Hemmingway’s personal discovery of the drink in Le Bodeguita del medio sealed the deal for it to become one of the most popular modern cocktails. More recently, Bacardi’s advertising campaigns have centered around making Mojitos at home, and the drink featured pominently in a scene from the 2002 James Bond film, Die Another Day, as Jinx and Bond flirt outrageously by the beach. - From tastecocktails.com