Agave Cocktails: Tequila
Siesta Cocktail
Siesta Cocktail Ingredients
1.5 oz. Tequila Cabeza Blanca
0.5 oz. Campari
0.5 oz. Fresh lime juice
0.5 oz. Fresh grapefruit juice
0.5 oz. Simple syrup
Garnish
Lime wheel
Siesta Cocktail Preparation
Combine all ingredients in a shaker and add ice. Shake hard. Fine strain into a coupe glass. Garnish with a lime wheel.
Siesta Cocktail Story
Created by veteran bartender Katie Stipe during her time at Flatiron Lounge, around 2006, the Siesta is not so much a variation on a Margarita as it is of a more esoteric classic, the Hemingway Daiquiri. Campari is certainly the star modifier of this cocktail, substituting the Maraschino liqueur of a Hemingway and amplifying the vegetal side of blanco tequila. It remains one of the more enduring modern classics to arise out of the “Mr. Potato Head” approach to cocktail theory, which dictates that liquors and modifiers can be freely experimented with as long as a cocktail’s structure remains balanced.