Famously taking a keen interest in drinks Ernest Hemingway was more interested in the amount of alcohol than in a well proportioned cocktail. The Hemingway Daiquiri for instance, even though being named by the great author, was originally just a daiquiri with double the amount of rum and no sugar. Very potent but surely not a great balanced cocktail. The Hemingway Daiquiri with grapefruit juice and Maraschino liqueur is a later invention created by a bartender at El Floridita in Havana, Cuba.

The Death in the Afternoon is a different story. It really was created by Hemingway himself and got its name from his 1932 novel about Spanish bullfighting. The drink was Hemingway’s contribution to a cocktail book from 1935 called “So Red the Nose, or Breath in the Afternoon” with recipes from 30 celebrity authors.

In the book, Hemingway says: “Pour one jigger absinthe into a Champagne glass. Add iced Champagne until it attains the proper opalescent milkiness. Drink three to five of these slowly”.

The glass called Arkipelag was designed by Timo Sarpaneva in 1980.

Product information

This is one in a series of illustrations of classic cocktail recipes with a selection of the most beautifully designed glasses.

The size 40x50 cm (approx 16x20”) are signed and printed on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Bright White 310g archival paper and are sold in a limited edition of 50 prints.

The size 30x40 cm (approx 12x16”) are printed on Hahnemühle Fine Art Studio Enhanced 210g archival paper.