In 1898 an American engineer, Jennings Stockton Cox, led a mining exhibition in the small town of Daiquiri in Cuba. The story goes that he was entertaining guests when he ran out of gin. To keep the party afloat he went out and bought rum that was readily available in Cuba. Mixing the rum with lemons, sugar, mineral water and ice he made it into a punch. The drink is essentially a rum sour but being Cox thought it was more suitable to name it after the town they were in.

Over time bartenders in Cuba removed the mineral water and made it a single serving cocktail instead of a punch and the drink started to get popular. Thanks to F. Scott Fitzgerald’s and Ernest Hemingway’s writings about the cocktail, the Daiquiri went from a party in a small Cuban town to being famous around the world. In fact, Hemingway liked it so much he created his own version at El Floridita in Havana, the Papa Doble or the Hemingway Daiquiri, made with double the amount of rum, grapefruit juice and Maraschino liqueur.

The Pinch Glass was designed by Russel Wright in 1950.

Product information

This is one in a series of illustrations of classic cocktail recipes with a selection of the most beautifully designed glasses.

The size 40x50 cm (approx 16x20”) are signed and printed on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Bright White 310g archival paper and are sold in a limited edition of 50 prints.

The size 30x40 cm (approx 12x16”) are printed on Hahnemühle Fine Art Studio Enhanced 210g archival paper.