Recipe

• 60ml white rum

• 40ml grapefruit juice

• 15ml lime juice

• 15ml maraschino

Shake with ice and strain into a cocktail glass.

Divine! What wonderful balance of flavours, what smoothness and drinkability! I could easily drink several of these in a row and not get bored.

Despite the fact that I keep a cocktail blog, I don't really have a good palate and I often can't taste hints of maraschino and so on in these drinks. But in this I can taste all the ingredients, and they all really add something special!

Some people don't like grapefruit juice. Those people won't enjoy this cocktail – it's an unmistakable flavour. That said, the bitterness is much more manageable when mixed with all the rest.

By the way, in many of these recipes I mention straining the drink into the glass. This is one where it's really important, especially if you've got juice with bits like I do. Bits are nice at breakfast time, but they really would spoil such a smooth, clean cocktail.