Caipirinha

1/2 lime quartered
1 oz simple syrup
2 oz cachaça
1/4 oz John D. Taylor's Velvet Falernum (optional)

Fill an old fashioned glass with cracked ice. Add the lime quarters and the simple syrup to a mixing glass. Muddle with enough pressure to release the lime juice and the oil from the skin. Add the cachaça, the ice from the old fashioned glass and the falernum. Shake well, pour the entire contents back into the old fashioned and serve.

This is Brazil's national drink, or as I like to think of it, the mojito's sexy aunt.