Happy New Year! Before I get back to wine related topics, I thought I would share some photos from my Christmas and New Year’s holiday spent with the family in Tortola.
We had a sun-and-rum-soaked two weeks down in the British Virgin Islands. As expected, local liquor stores had limited wine inventory, so we drank rum. Lots of delicious, inexpensive, dark, spicy rums that we mixed into all kinds of juices: guava, papaya, passionfruit, pineapple.
The Painkiller is the national drink, founded at the Soggy Dollar Bar on Jost Van Dyke. The cocktail, so delicious and simple to make, just may perk up your grey, dreary January days. Here is the recipe:
2-4 oz. of Dark Rum
4 oz. pineapple juice (or 4 oz of any combo of juices you like)
1 oz. cream of coconut, preferably Coco Lopez brand
1 oz. orange juice
Shake, strain and serve over ice.
Grated fresh nutmeg on top!
Cow Wreck beach bar on Anegada
The most beautiful sailing ship I will never afford
My regret is not enough time in this hammock
CHASING THE VINE 
Wow – thanks for the splash of sunshine Lauren! Glad you had such a great time. We will defo try this cocktail. We brought back some local rum from Antigua this time last year (bought from the village post office from another era!) and have been making ‘Old Fashioned Rum Punches’ since then. You’re making us long for those beaches and blue-yellow sunsets!