Airmail Cocktail

Airmail Cocktail Story

For the salty personality out there who swears rum and champagne don’t mix, here’s a cocktail for you. First appearing in W.C. Whitfield’s 1941 publication Here’s How, the Airmail is yet another delicious and brilliant piece of marketing put out by Bacardi meant to evoke the newfound ease and luxury of correspondence by airliner. The Airmail appealed to that jet-set glamour the best way a drink can: with champagne on top. It later saw widespread popularity in American households when Esquire included it in its 1949 publication, Handbook for Hosts.