Terremoto (Earthquake) Cocktail Recipe
A boozy Chilean ice-cream float: sweet young white wine poured over pineapple ice cream, deceptively easy to drink.
- Category: Popular
- Glass: Highball glass
- ABV: 9%
- Difficulty: Easy
- Prep time: ~3 min
Ingredients
- Pipeño (young sweet white wine)300 ml (10.1 oz)
- Pineapple ice cream1 piece
- Grenadine10 ml (0.3 oz)
How to Make It
- Drop a generous scoop of pineapple ice cream into a large chilled glass.
- Pour the cold pipeño over the ice cream until the glass is nearly full.
- Drizzle the grenadine on top.
- Serve at once with a spoon and a straw, before the ice cream melts.
Garnish
A drizzle of grenadine over the ice cream
What it tastes like
The sweetness is pronounced and fruit notes come forward.
The technique
Built in the glass. Ice goes into the serving glass, the ingredients go on top, and you stir once if at all. Anything carbonated goes in LAST and never gets stirred; every turn of the spoon costs you bubbles. Fill the glass to the rim with ice: less ice melts faster, not slower.
Glass and ice
A tall, narrow highball. The narrowness does real work — less surface area means the carbonation lasts longer and the ice melts more slowly.
Ingredient notes and substitutes
- Grenadine
- Pomegranate syrup. Most supermarket bottles are dyed corn syrup with no pomegranate in them; reducing pomegranate juice with an equal weight of sugar takes ten minutes and changes the drink completely.
The Story
It is said to have appeared in Santiago's old taverns late in the 20th century, its name a joke about the unsteady legs it leaves behind; today it is a fixture of Chile's national holiday celebrations.
Frequently asked questions
- How is a Terremoto (Earthquake) mixed?
- It is built in the glass and served in a highball glass.
- How strong is a Terremoto (Earthquake)?
- Roughly 9% ABV as served — lighter than a beer — a long-conversation drink that takes a second round.
- Can a Terremoto (Earthquake) be made without alcohol?
- Simply leaving the spirit out does not work — the body and the bitterness go with it. The 86 alcohol-free recipes in the catalogue are built to hit that balance from the start.
- Is a Terremoto (Earthquake) hard to make?
- Easy. No bar kit required — a measure, ice and a jar will do.
The main ingredient here is also a dream symbol: Wine in a dream
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