Love a Daiquiri? Well, get excited because the Mango Daiquiri is here to rock your sun-soaked world. It’s a fruity, tropical take on the classic cocktail, making use of fresh, juicy mango to add another spectrum of flavour. It's the perfect sipper for warmer weather, or even through the winter when you’re dreaming of summer.
The original Daiquiri recipe dates back to the 20th century and is named for a small town on the south-eastern shore of Cuba. It's said that Jennings Coz, an American engineer, was leading an expedition in the Sierra Maestra Mountains close to Daiquiri and began experimenting with local rum. After several attempts, he hit the sweet spot and the Daiquiri was born. It travelled back to America, spread in popularity and variations began to emerge, with the first written record of a ‘Frozen Daiquiri’ being published in an electric blender recipe book in 1952.
Of course, we can’t talk about the Daiquiri without mentioning its most famous enthusiast, author Ernest Hemingway. He was a firm fixture at El Floridita, a bar in Havana, where they even named their own version of the Daiquiri after him. And although it’s impossible to know whether Hemingway ever tried a Mango Daiquiri, we're sure that he’d wax lyrical over it given a chance.
