Forget the mojito: Experts say Ernest Hemingway's signature drink was likely something else

This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. ©2026 FOX News Network, LLC. All rights reserved. Quotes displayed in real-time or delayed by at least 15 minutes. Market data provided by Factset. Powered and implemented by FactSet Digital Solutions. Legal Statement. Mutual Fund and ETF data provided by LSEG. Ernest Hemingway scholars examine the enduring claim that the celebrated author favored mojitos in Havana, Cuba, arguing the evidence instead overwhelmingly supports other cocktails. As Ernest Hemingway's birthday rolls around each July, Florida bars from Key West to Miami Beach shake mojitos in tribute to the Nobel Prize-winning author. But Hemingway scholars say one of the writer's most enduring cocktail legends is probably just that — a legend. "His connection to the mojito is probably more myth than reality," said Mark Ott, a Hemingway scholar who has edited the "Teaching Hemingway" book series and served as a consulting editor on Ken Burns' and Lynn Novick's "Hemingway" documentary. "There's not much of a record of him drinking mojitos." The myth is often traced to Havana, Cuba's famed La Bodeguita del Medio, where a handwritten inscription attr