Recipe

• 2 parts Passoã

• 1 part Galliano (or maybe sambuca)

• 1 part lime juice

Shake together with ice, strain into a cocktail glass, and add two chunks of melon as a garnish.

I made this one up, and I'm pretty happy with how it turned out.  The famous Pornstar Martini pairs Passoã with vanilla, and while I wasn't pleased with my attempt, I figured there was something in the idea.  Enter Galliano, the liqueur I've been enjoying so much recently (see Yellow Bird and Barracuda), which has a noticeable vanilla aroma along with its main flavour of anise.  Using this as the "sweet" part of a three-ingredient sour cocktail, and going easy on the Passoã to avoid overpowering the whole thing, we arrive at the recipe above.  We were having melon for pudding, and I thought it'd go nicely.

The whole thing came together beautifully!  The flavours balance each other pretty well, resulting in a nice fruity drink, with lime to stop it getting sickly, and subtle anise to give it some depth and make it more interesting. The cool, gentle sweetness of the melon counters the tangy passion fruit and lime nicely, with the chunk of melon actually being one of the best bits after it had soaked in so much of the cocktail.

I'll definitely make this again.