Cocktail

Hurricane

The Hurricane is a New Orleans rum cocktail — a tall, fruity, ruby-red drink of rum, passion-fruit syrup and fresh lemon juice, shaken and poured over crushed ice into the curved, lamp-shaped glass that gives it its name. It is sweet, tart and tropical, deceptively easy to drink for the amount of rum it carries, and the signature pour of Pat O'Brien's bar in the French Quarter. Born in the 1940s as a way to use up an excess of rum, it became one of the emblematic drinks of New Orleans and of the wider tiki and exotic-cocktail revival.

Sweet-tart20% ABV

At a glance

Signature

Passion fruit & Tropical fruit

Lemon

Strength

Strong

20% ABV

A tall, ruby-red rum sour of considerable strength, sweet and tart at once, built on the heady tropical fragrance of passion-fruit syrup with pineapple and guava notes, sharpened by fresh lemon and grounded in the warm, slightly funky molasses character of aged Jamaican rum. The crushed ice keeps it long and cold; the whole drink reads fruity and refreshing, with the sweetness of the syrup and the rum kept in check by the citrus rather than masking it.

Taste balance

SweetnessMedium

DrySweet

AcidityMedium

SoftTart

BitternessSmooth

SmoothBitter

StrengthStrong

LightStrong

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