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The Margarita

This drink is as famous as its origins are uncertain.  Many stories are told about the invention of the Margarita, but the only hard fact we have on its early history is its first published recipe in a 1953 edition of Esquire magazine.

For this particular recipe, I’ve used the following ingredients:

  • Milagro Silver Tequila
  • Lime Juice
  • Combier Liqueur D’Orange
  • 1-to-1 simple syrup.

    Project Calcuhol's Margarita.

    Project Calcuhol’s Margarita.

 

This yields a Margarita Recipe that falls somewhere within the wide range of recipes that can be found for this drink.  The difference, of course, is that this particular recipe is custom suited to these particular products based on Project Calcuhol’s calculation.  With these choices, the resulting drink provides a very clean and bright expression of agave, orange, and lime.

A Project Calcuhol Original

This experiment takes the idea of the La Paloma cocktail (possibly Mexico’s favorite cocktail) and turns it into a more concentrated drink by replacing the grapefruit soda with grapefruit liqueur.

With a relatively simple ingredient list:

  • Herradura Reposado Tequila
  • Lime Juice
  • Combier Crème de Pamplemousse Rose,

    A Project Calcuhol Original Cocktail.

    A Project Calcuhol Original Cocktail.

 

the predicted cocktail recipe presents a focused burst of agave, lime, and grapefruit to the palate but without any roughness to it. With a fair amount of sweetness already present in the Pamplemousse and Tequila, one can execute this drink without simple syrup.