The Mama Juana is a Dominican drink that can akes months to prepare. (It's hard not to feel lethargic when you're home all day, after all.) Do not neglect the finishing touches! Some lime juice and a lime wedge adds a citrusy jolt to this tried-and-true cocktail, which also provides the additional welcome relief of a caffeine-boost.

How will this transport me to vacation-land, you may be wondering, considering I drank this all throughout college? Well, we can guarantee the quality of the rum was not quite up to par (it rarely is outside the Caribbean) nor the attention to aesthetics. The Dominican Republic Getty Images / Marco Bottigelli Dominican Republic: Cuba LibreДЇor our next selection, we're taking it back to basics: Check out our recipe for the Cuba Libre, a famous cocktail in the Dominican Republic (as indeed it is in Cuba) that is also more commonly referred to as Rum and Coke. (Oh, and try to spring for Chairman's Reserve Rum, if possible-it's locally produced and a favorite on the island.) In general, try to order the local rum when possible-though we do recognize that these are trying times.

Keep adding grenadine until the beverage turns the color of a tropical sunset-and imagine you're enjoying one in person when you take your first sip. So it's therefore fitting that a telling difference between a regular rum punch and a Saint Lucian rum punch is that the latter has a more fiery and intense tropical coloring. (It's the only nation named after a woman on the planet.) And we are not exaggerating when we refer to it as heartbreakingly beautiful: It's impossible to over-hype the golden hour in Soufriere, when the sun sets between the Pitons, casting a fiery gold light upon the water until it sinks beneath the Caribbean Sea. Our first selection is one of the iconic cocktails created on the heartbreakingly beautiful island of Saint Lucia -which also has the distinction of being the only female country in the world. Lucia's Twin Pitons Wildroze / Getty Saint Lucia: St.

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