Ti' Punch
ClassicRhum agricole, lime, and cane syrup, built and barely stirred. Martinique's national drink.
Spirit-forward and grassy, rhum agricole's vegetal funk cut by lime's acidity and rounded out by just enough cane syrup to soften the pour without sweetening it.
Ingredients
- 2 oz Rhum Agricole
- 1 tsp Cane Syrup
- 1 Lime Wedge, Squeezed And Dropped In
- None · optional garnish
Method
- 1
Squeeze a lime wedge into a rocks glass and drop it in.
- 2
Add the cane syrup and stir to dissolve.
- 3
Add the rhum agricole and a few ice cubes.
- 4
Stir briefly to combine.
The Story
Ti' Punch — Creole French for "small punch" — is Martinique's everyday drink, ordered at the bar with the ingredients set out separately so each person builds their own to taste: rhum agricole, a squeeze of lime, and a splash of cane syrup, nothing else. It's often called the island's answer to the Old Fashioned, built on the same logic of a spirit barely diluted, but rhum agricole's grassy, vegetal character — distilled from fresh cane juice rather than molasses — makes it taste like nothing else in the rum world.
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