ABILENE
LARIAT
Ropes you right in
2 ounces tequila
1 ounce Jim Beam bourbon
1 ounce lime juice
Lime slice for garnish
Pour liquid ingredients into ice-filled rocks glass. Stir and garnish.
AFTER THE
RAIN
Silver droplets, superb taste
2 ounces silver tequila
1 ounce anisette
Pour tequila and liqueur into ice-filled rocks glass and stir.
THE ALAMO
THE ALAMO
A drink to remember
2 ounces tequila
1 ounce amaretto
1 splash orange juice
Lime twist for garnish
Pour liquid ingredients into ice-filled rocks glass. Stir and garnish.
ALOHA
Laced with coconut-flavored rum
2 ounces tequila
1 ounce Malibu rum
Pineapple spear for garnish
Pour tequila and rum into ice-filled rocks glass. Stir and garnish.
APRICOT
MARGARITA
With apricot brandy and Cointreau
1½ ounces tequila
½ ounce Mr. Boston apricot brandy
½ ounce Cointreau
1 splash Rose’s lime juice
Lime wedge for garnish
Combine liquid ingredients in mixing glass. Add ice and shake. Strain into glass and garnish.
ARTICHOKE
HIGH
With an artichoke-flavored aperitif!
2 ounces silver tequila
1 ounce Cynar
Pour tequila and Cynar into ice-filled rocks glass and stir.
AZTECA
Made with a little of the best-selling rum in Mexico
2 ounces silver tequila
1 ounce Bacardi Solera
2 teaspoons orange juice
Orange slice for garnish
Combine liquid ingredients in mixing glass. Add ice, shake, and strain into glass.
BLOODY
MARIA
Mary’s saucy Mexican cousin
2 ounces tequila
4 ounces tomato juice
1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
1 or 2 dashes Tabasco
Lime slice for garnish
Pour liquid ingredients into ice-filled highball glass. Stir and garnish.
BLUE
MARGARITA
Sunny skies all the way
1 ounce silver tequila
½ ounce blue curaçao
½ ounce brandy
½ ounce lemon juice
Lemon wedge for garnish
Combine liquid ingredients in mixing glass. Add ice and shake. Strain into glass and garnish.
BORDER
CROSSING
Zips you across the Rio Grande
1½ ounces tequila
½ ounce orange juice
½ ounce pineapple juice
½ ounce Chambord
Club soda
Orange peel spiral for garnish
Pour tequila, juices, and liqueur into ice-filled rocks glass. Top with club soda to taste and garnish.
BRAVE BULL
The Mexican liqueur Kahlúa tastes of roasted coffee with a hint of chocolate.
2 ounces gold tequila
1 ounce Kahlúa
Lemon twist for garnish
Pour tequila and Kahlúa into ice-filled rocks glass. Stir and garnish.
CACTUS
Tasty and prickle-free
2 ounces gold tequila
1 ounce coffee liqueur
Club soda
Lemon twist for garnish
Pour tequila and liqueur into ice-filled highball glass. Top with club soda to taste and garnish.
CALIFORNIA
SKY
Down Tijuana way
1½ ounces silver tequila
½ ounce light rum
½ ounce blue curaçao
½ ounce fresh sour mix
Maraschino cherry for garnish
Orange slice for garnish
Combine liquid ingredients in mixing glass. Add ice and shake. Strain into glass and garnish.
THE
CHAPULTEPEC
Pushes your spirits uphill
2 ounces José Cuervo Oranjo tequila
1 ounce Grand Marnier
Orange slice for garnish
Combine tequila and liqueur in mixing glass. Add ice and shake. Strain into glass and garnish.
CHOCOLATE
TEQUILA
MARTINI
It had to happen.
3 ounces Tanteo chocolate tequila
1 teaspoon sweet vermouth
Mini marshmallow for garnish
Combine tequila and vermouth in mixing glass. Add ice and stir to chill. Strain into glass and garnish.
COCONUT
CREAM
As rich as it gets
1½ ounces tequila
½ ounce Malibu rum
½ ounce white crème de cacao
½ ounce heavy cream
Coconut slice for garnish
Combine liquid ingredients in mixing glass. Add ice and shake. Strain into glass and garnish.
COSTA MESA
Dreamed up by a Texan transplanted to Paris
2 ounces silver tequila
4 ounces cranberry juice
Club soda
Lime wedge for garnish
Pour tequila and juice into ice-filled highball glass. Top with club soda to taste and garnish.
CREMA FRÍA
Tequila, vanilla, and cream on the rocks
2 ounces silver tequila
½ ounce Smirnoff Vanilla vodka
½ ounce heavy cream
Combine ingredients in mixing glass. Add ice, shake, and pour with ice into glass.
CRESCENT
MOON
A drink for romantics
2 ounces silver tequila
1 ounce Pernod
Lemon twist for garnish
Pour tequila and liqueur into ice-filled rocks glass, stir, and garnish.
CRYSTAL
PALACE
Tinted gold
Crushed ice
1 ounce silver tequila
1 ounce Crown Royal whiskey
1 ounce Galliano
Fill a rocks glass with crushed ice and add tequila, whiskey, and liqueur. Stir.
DIAMOND IN
THE ROUGH
With an icy sparkle
2 ounces Gran Patrón Platinum tequila
2 ounces lychee juice
Juice of half a lime
1 ounce cranberry juice
1 teaspoon superfine sugar
Crushed ice
Combine liquid ingredients and sugar in mixing glass. Add ice and shake. Strain into glass filled with crushed ice.
DIVINO
Divine, thanks in part to the citrus-flavored tequila
1 ounce José Cuervo Citrico tequila
1 ounce vodka
1 ounce fresh sour mix
Lemon peel spiral for garnish
Combine ingredients in mixing glass. Add ice and shake. Strain into glass and garnish.
THE EXPLORER
In search of El Dorado
2 ounces gold tequila
1 ounce peach schnapps
½ ounce crème de cassis
Pour ingredients into ice-filled rocks glass and stir.
FOUR
SEASONS
MARGARITA
Our take on one of America’s favorite cocktails
2 ounces gold tequila
1 ounce Cointreau
1 ounce fresh sour mix
1 splash Rose’s lime juice
Lime wedge for garnish
Combine liquid ingredients in mixing glass. Add ice and shake. Strain into glass and garnish.
FROSTED ROSE
FROSTED
ROSE
Named for its rosy color
2½ ounces gold tequila
1 ounce grenadine
Lemon peel spiral for garnish
Combine tequila and grenadine in ice-filled rocks glass. Stir and garnish.
A with-salt margarita doesn’t have salt in the drink itself, only on the rim of the glass. To salt the rim, spread a tablespoon of salt in a saucer; moisten the rim of glass with a lime wedge and dip the rim into the salt. Some tequila fans prefer coarse salt, others finer salt—but neither choice makes one with-salt margarita more “authentic” than the other.
FROSTY
WITCH
Casts a spell
1½ ounces silver tequila
½ ounce amaretto
½ ounce pineapple juice
Orange wedge for garnish
Pour ingredients into ice-filled rocks glass. Stir and garnish.
GENTLE
JUAN
Coffee flavor without the jangled nerves
2 ounces tequila
1 ounce Tia Maria
Lemon twist for garnish
Pour tequila and liqueur into ice-filled rocks glass, stir, and garnish.
GOLD LEAF
The leaf? Mint.
2 ounces José Cuervo Gold
1 ounce white crème de menthe
Mint sprig for garnish
Combine liquid ingredients in mixing glass. Add ice and stir to chill. Strain into glass and garnish.
GRAPPA
TEQUILA
Tequila with an Italian eau-de-vie
2 ounces silver tequila
1 ounce grappa
Pour tequila and grappa into an ice-filled rocks glass and stir.
GREEN
IGUANA
Melony and tart
2 ounces silver tequila
1 ounce Gaetano melon liqueur
½ ounce fresh sour mix
Lemon slice for garnish
Combine ingredients in mixing glass. Add ice and shake. Strain into glass and garnish.
THE
GUADALUPE
A tequila ’n’ rum fizz
1½ ounces gold tequila
1 ounce rum
Ginger ale
Mint sprig for garnish
Pour tequila and rum into ice-filled highball glass. Add ginger ale to taste and garnish.
GULF OF
MEXICO
With blue curaçao
2 ounces silver tequila
1 ounce blue curaçao
½ ounce fresh sour mix
Combine ingredients in mixing glass. Add ice, shake, and strain into glass.
HONEYDEW
Tequila with a touch of melon
2 ounces silver tequila
2 ounces Midori
1 splash Rose’s lime juice
Club soda
Lemon wedge for garnish
Pour tequila, liqueur, and juice into ice-filled highball glass. Top with club soda to taste and garnish.
HOT SOUR
Pepper-flavored vodka supplies the heat.
1½ ounces tequila
1½ ounces Absolut Peppar vodka
½ ounce fresh sour mix
Lemon slice for garnish
Combine liquid ingredients in mixing glass. Add ice and shake. Strain into glass and garnish.
ICE PICK
Iced tea spiked with a pineapple- and coconut-flavored tequila
2 ounces José Cuervo Tropiña tequila
6 ounces tea of choice, sweetened to taste
Lemon wedge for garnish
Pour tequila and tea into ice-filled highball glass, stir, and garnish.
ICICLE
Straight tequila on ice
Crushed ice
2½ ounces silver tequila
Lime slice for garnish
Fill a rocks glass with crushed ice and add tequila. Garnish.
IRISH ECHO
Erin go bueno
1½ ounces tequila
1½ ounces Irish Mist
Lemon twist for garnish
Pour tequila and liqueur into ice-filled rocks glass, stir, and garnish.
KENTUCKY
HOMBRE
Equal parts bourbon and tequila
1½ ounces gold tequila
1½ ounces bourbon
Pour tequila and bourbon into ice-filled rocks glass and stir.
LA BAMBA
Chicano rock on the rocks?
1½ ounces gold tequila
¾ ounce Cointreau
1½ ounces pineapple juice
1½ ounces orange juice
2 dashes grenadine
Lime peel spiral for garnish
Combine liquid ingredients in mixing glass. Add ice and shake. Pour with ice into glass and garnish.
LA GRANADA
Granada = pomegranate
2 ounces silver tequila
2 ounces pomegranate juice
Club soda
Lemon wedge for garnish
Pour tequila and juice into ice-filled highball glass. Top with club soda to taste and garnish.
MARGARITA
DE GUAYABA
Guayaba is Spanish for guava.
1½ ounces tequila
1 ounce guava nectar
1 splash Rose’s lime juice
Lime slice for garnish
Combine liquid ingredients in mixing glass. Add ice and shake. Strain into glass and garnish.
MELON
MARGARITA
MARTINI
Flavored with Midori honeydew liqueur
1½ ounces tequila
½ ounce Midori
½ ounce Cointreau
1 splash Rose’s lime juice
Lime wedge for garnish
Combine liquid ingredients in mixing glass. Add ice and shake. Strain into glass and garnish.
MELON
MARGARITA
MARTINI