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Margarita

Tequila, triple sec and fresh lime, salt on half the rim so you can choose. Tart, cold and direct.

Base: Tequila
Glass: Coupe glass
Method: Shake
Strength: 24% ABV

Ingredients

50 mlTequila 100% agave1 swap
Mezcalmedium
Smoky and earthier — a different drink, but a good one
20 mlTriple Sec1 swap
Cointreauhigh
Similar, a little drier
15 mlFreshly Squeezed Lime Juice1 swap
Fresh lemon juicemedium
Slightly less floral, more tart

How to make

Technique

Shake · 10–15s

Shaking chills the drink fast while adding dilution and a light texture.

Add all ingredients into a shaker with ice.
Shake and strain into a chilled cocktail glass.

Serve

Glass

Coupe glassAlso fine: Martini glass, Nick & Nora glass

Garnish

Half salt rim (Optional).Half a rim lets you take salt or skip it on each sip.

optional

Taste & nutrition

24%ABV

170kcal

2.01Drinks

StrengthBoozy

Sweet to dryDry

Estimated from ingredient amounts and assumed ABVs — not a lab measurement.

Good to know

Use freshly squeezed juice — bottled tastes flat.

History

Year1930s–40s

PlaceMexico / US border

Created byDisputed

Tequila, orange liqueur and lime, the Margarita has many claimed inventors along the Mexican-American border in the 1930s and '40s. It is really a tequila Daiquiri or Sidecar, sometimes served with a salted rim. Countless origin tales attach it to a woman named Margarita. Whatever the truth, it became the world's favourite tequila cocktail.

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