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Spirits & Distilling

Mulata

From The Oxford Companion to Spirits & Cocktails

, a Cuban cocktail, is nowadays basically an aged-rum chocolate Daiquiri, with crème de cacao supplying the extra flavor component. See Daiquiri. In the early 1940s, however, when the drink was introduced (apparently at the Floridita), that component was supplied by Elíxir Bacardi, the Bacardi company’s proprietary 69-proof caramel- and raisin-flavored cordial. See Floridita; Bacardi;, cacao, crème de.

This definition is from The Oxford Companion to Spirits & Cocktails, edited by David Wondrich (Editor-in-Chief) and Noah Rothbaum (Associate Editor).