The Rendezvous Cocktail

This time last year we were at the Hôtel Esplanade in Grand Case, St. Martin, hanging at the pool drinking wickedly deceptive cocktails called Rendezvous, made by bartender and raconteur extraordinaire Alain. Because of our finances, we can't afford to go anywhere this year, so we decided to reprise the cocktails at home and pretend we were away.

After a week of drinking them and watching three bartenders make them, I figured out how to reverse engineer the drink and have since gone on to do my version of it:

The Rendezvous Cocktail

   3 parts Grey Goose
   1 part St. Germain
   1/2 part pastis
   4 parts guava nectar

The St. Germain is my addition. For pastis, if you are lucky enough to have brought some back from France, use that. The cheap stuff available in every supermarché is perfect. Otherwise you can use ouzo or raki or the expensive Ricard or even Pernod in a pinch. We have a bottle of Pastis de Marseille that we picked up for next to nothing (1000ml for 6€) in St. Martin.