Garrapiñada Rum Old Fashioned Recipe

Chill glass

Place an Old-Fashioned (rocks) glass in the freezer or fill it with ice and water while you prepare the drink to chill the glass.

Combine ingredients

In a mixing glass, add 1.5 oz Diplomático rum, 0.5 oz Bombay Sapphire gin, 0.5 oz Campari, 0.75 oz Regal Rouge red vermouth, 0.25 oz simple syrup, and 2 dashes of Angostura bitters.

Add ice and stir

Fill the mixing glass with large cubed ice (enough to roughly fill the glass). Stir gently and consistently for 20–30 seconds (about 20–30 turns) until the mixture is well chilled and properly diluted (cool to the touch and faint condensation on the outside of the mixing glass).

Prepare glass and garnish

If you used ice to chill the serving glass, discard that ice and water. Place a single large ice cube in the chilled Old-Fashioned glass. Express an orange peel over the glass by holding the peel skin-side down above the drink and giving it a firm twist to spray oils across the surface; then rub the peel on the rim and drop it into the glass. Add one candied (garrapiñada) nut on a cocktail pick or drop it gently into the drink as an optional nod to the name.

Strain and serve

Fine-strain or double-strain the stirred cocktail from the mixing glass into the prepared Old-Fashioned glass over the large ice cube. Give the drink a quick gentle stir (1–2 turns) in the serving glass to marry the garnish oils. Serve immediately.

Tasting notes

The Diplomático rum provides a rich, molasses-forward base, the gin adds floral-citrus lift, Campari brings bright bitterness, and Regal Rouge contributes sweet-herbal depth. The candied nut garnish adds a crunchy, caramelized aroma that complements the rum's sweetness.