- 2 oz tequila
- 1 oz lime juice
- ¾ oz orange liqueur
Classic cocktail
Margarita
Tequila · Lime · Orange
Tequila, lime and orange liqueur, shaken and served on a salted rim. A daisy by another name, and the most ordered cocktail in the country.
- 1800 Tequila Reposado 750ML$31.99
- Cointreau$37.99
- all two in stock today
Nobody agrees who made it.The most repeated story has Carlos "Danny" Herrera inventing it in 1938 at Rancho La Gloria, on the road from Tijuana to Rosarito, for a guest who could drink no spirit but tequila. There are half a dozen rival claims, from Juárez to Galveston, and none of them has paperwork.
A daisy, in Spanish.The better explanation is that the drink is a Daisy, a nineteenth-century family of spirit, citrus and orange liqueur, made with tequila. Margarita is Spanish for daisy. By 1953 Esquire was printing the recipe, and by the 1970s a machine was freezing it.
Today. It is the most ordered cocktail in the United States. The bottle is the tell: a blanco keeps it bright, a reposado makes it rounder, and the orange liqueur is where a good one and a cheap one part ways.
- Tequila1800 Tequila Reposado 750ML · $31.992 oz
- Orange liqueurCointreau · $37.99¾ oz
- Lime juice, freshFrom your kitchen1 oz
- Salt, for half the rimFrom your kitchenA pinch
- Lime wheelFrom your kitchen1
Run a lime wedge around half the rim of the glass and dip that half in salt.
Add 2 oz tequila, 1 oz fresh lime juice and ¾ oz orange liqueur to a shaker with ice.
Shake hard for 15 seconds.
Strain into the glass, over fresh ice if you like it long, and add a lime wheel.
Never a bottled mix. Fresh lime and the orange liqueur are the whole drink.
Same glass, one bottle swapped
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