Agave Cocktails: Tequila

Paloma Cocktail

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Paloma Cocktail Ingredients

1.75 oz. Herradura Tequila Silver

0.5 oz. Fresh lime juice

Grapefruit soda

Garnish

Grapefruit wheel
Salt rim

Paloma Cocktail Preparation

For the salt rim, pour table salt onto a small plate. Run the flesh side of a grapefruit wedge along the outside lip of a Collins or a double rocks glass.

Combine all ingredients except soda in a shaker and add ice. Shake hard. Pour into serving glass and add ice. Top with Squirt, Jarritos or grapefruit soda. Garnish with a grapefruit wheel.

Paloma Cocktail Story

Few mixed drink recipes are as demanding for exact ingredients as the Paloma. Creator Don Javier Delgado Corona, owner of the family run La Capilla cantina in Jalisco, Mexico, likely wasn’t inspired by any classic cocktails: the Paloma is a quintessential highball, made with local ingredients. Still, the Paloma is a deceptively sophisticated refresher that could be easily, if regrettably, mistaken for a tequila Greyhound. An authentic Paloma, still wildly popular throughout Mexico, is not complete without a sweet, fizzy, slightly bitter grapefruit soda. Rounding out the ideal Paloma is a salt rim and lime wedge, which work together to edge out the sweetness of the soda and coax out the savory side of a quality tequila. The result is a perfectly balanced antidote to the desert sun.