Name: Blackberry and Cabernet Caipirinha Recipe
Cook time: 5 min
Yield: 4 to 6 drinks
Ingredients: 1 cup blackberries; 2 medium limes, quartered; 6 ounces cachaça; 2 ounces Cabernet Sauvignon; 1 1/2 ounces freshly squeezed lime juice (from about 3 medium limes); 2 ounces freshly squeezed orange juice (from about 1/2 medium orange); 4 ounces; 2 ounces cranberry juice; Ice; Lime and orange wheels, for garnish

Why it works: Orange and cranberry match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 230 recipes. Both carry ethyl 2-methylbutyrate, which smells fruity, apple. The science ↓

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

Orange + cranberrytop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together230 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).
Lime + orangetop 4% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together937 recipes

Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).
Lime + cranberrytop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together100 recipes

Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

Swap the lime

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (orange, cranberry):

Limethe original
Lemonfits about as well
Applefits less well
Pineapplefits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against orange, cranberry. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Blackberry	1 cup (144g)	62
Orange	1 medium (131g)	62
Cranberry	1 cup raw (100g)	46
Lime	juice of 1 lime (44ml)	11

Blackberry and Cabernet Caipirinha Recipe