Cognac Julep Cocktail

• 1 1/2 teaspoons superfine sugar
• 1/2 ounce water
• 6 fresh mint leaves
• finely-cracked ice, (wrap ice in a towel and pound it with a mallet, skillet, or rolling pin)
• 2 1/2 ounces Pierre Ferrand Ambre Cognac
• 1/2 ounce Plantation Vintage 2000 Jamaican Rum
• 3 or 4 sprigs of mint

1. Put sugar in a tall Collins glass, add water and stir until sugar has dissolved.
2. Add 6 fresh mint leaves, pressing them lightly with a muddler.
3. Fill the glass with finely-cracked ice.
4. Add Pierre Ferrand Ambre Cognac and stir well.
5. Add additional ice to fill glass.
6. Float Plantation rum on top.
7. Insert 3 or 4 sprigs of mint and a straw.
8. Then smile.

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Taken from www.foodrepublic.com/recipes/cognac-julep-cocktail-recipe/ (may not work)