The GoldenEye cocktail – a signature drink

Blackwell Rum’s signature drink is the GoldenEye Cocktail, which also happens to be the welcome drink at its GoldenEye Resort, once the Jamaican home of Ian Fleming and where he wrote his James Bond novels.

Ingredients

60ml rum

60ml pineapple juice

Lime or pineapple for garnish

For the pineapple juice

Although off-the-shelf pineapple juice is easily to come by, most are blended, and some contain added preservatives, so I highly recommend juicing your own pineapples. The easiest way to do this is by using a juice extractor. Alternatively, you could use a blender and strain the pulp using a strainer or cheesecloth.

Recipe

∙ Shake the ingredients together and strain into a chilled glass.

∙ Garnish with lime or pineapple wedge.

∙ For the South African interpretation of the GoldenEye Cocktail, I used Elephantom Rum. This dark rum is triple distilled from fermented cane molasses in a copper pot still and aged in bourbon casks. Elephantom has a rich, rounded and fruity flavour, inspired by the legend of a famous bull elephant from the Knysna Forest on the southern coast of South Africa.