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One of my new bottle is great black bottle of Passoa Passion Fruit liqueur. Passoa Passion Fruit liqueur is modern creature of Remy-Cointreau Company. It was launched 1986 in European market and 1994 worldwide. This bright pink liqueur has exotic sweet taste of passion fruit juice, citrus and herbs. Great thing for easy summer cocktails.

I collect some interesting cocktails with Passoa Passion Fruit liqueur:

Pink Passion

30 ml vodka
30 ml Passoa Passion fruit liqueur
1 b.s. fresh lime (lemon) juice
fill with lemon-lime soda
Build in a collins glass with ice cubes. Garnish with lime wedges.

Very sweet refreshing cocktail with great tropical taste and bright color. Admirable drink.

Next drink has great pink color and it is one of cosmos, of course.

Passionate Cosmo

40 ml vodka
20 ml Passoa Passion fruit liqueur
20 ml Cointreau
1 bsp. fresh lime juice
Shake and strain into cocktail glass. Garnish with a lime wheel.

Strong and sweet cocktail. Clear passion in the glass.

The author of next cocktail is one of my favorite barman - The Maestro - Salvatore Calabrese. Actually cocktail with that name (and similar composition) was my first post on this blog :)

Bay of Passion

30 ml vodka
30 ml Passoa Passion fruit liqueur
60 ml cranberry juice
60 ml fresh grapefruit juice
Shake. Strain into a highball filled with ice. Garnish with a maraschino cherry on the rim.

It is modern dance-club-style cocktail with interesting bitter-sweet and exotic taste. Water, sugar, alcohol - and all you need is love :)

Next cocktail is similar to tiki-cocktail. Add more kind of rum and you obtain real tiki-monster :)

Passion Dream

40 ml light rum
20 ml Passoa Passion fruit liqueur
50 ml fresh orange juice
20 ml pineapple juice
20 ml fresh grapefruit juice
1-2 tsp. grenadine
Shake and strain into ice-filled double-rocks glass. Garnish with a flag.

This tropic punch has sweet and exotic taste. Good concoction for hot summer days on the beach.

This Dale`s DeGroff creation has strange name and very … actually… perspective composotion :) Worth to try, I think!

209 East Cocktail

60 ml tequila Sauza Hornitos
30 ml Cointreau
15 ml strawberry Liqueur
30 ml fresh lime juice
Shake all ingredients with ice and strain into a chilled cocktail glass.

I use tequila Leyenda Del Milagro Reposado (100% de Agave) instead Sauza Hornitos. This cocktail is so good :) … But it is *hidden* strawberry margarita :)

Idea of this post is exploring of some cocktails named with female russian names. I found five cocktails of this kind. Taste of some female russian names. Some of this cocktails are pure and famous classiс - Ninotchka Cocktail. The Annouchka Cocktail is a signature drink of Salvatore Calabrese. This post I devoted all my female friends :)

First cocktail is famous Ninotchka Cocktail which named in honour of Gretta Garbo in “Ninotchka” movie (1939).

Ninotchka (Nintchka, Ninitchka)

45 ml vodka
15 ml light creme de cacao
15 ml fresh lemon juice
Shake. Cocktail glass.

The taste of Ninotchka Cocktail is very interesting and unusual. The combination of smooth sour taste of lemon and sweet chokolate taste of creme de cacao is great!

Recipe of Katinka Cocktail I found in The Classic Bar & Cocktail Book by J. Goodall. This is simple and interesting cocktail.

Katinka

50 ml vodka
40 ml apricot brandy
15 ml fresh lime juice
Shake. Cocktail glass. Garnish with fresh mint.

Sweet no so strong cocktail with bright apricot taste and little sourness. Admirable!

My favorite CocktailDB list another and very intriguing recipe of Katinka Cocktail: gin, cordial Medoc, green Chartreuse and Angostura bitters. Sounds great! Worth to try.

Recipe of Natasha Cocktail was founded in The Bible of bartender by F. Evsevsky.

Natasha

30 ml vodka
15 ml Cointreau
15 ml creme de banane
15 ml strawberry liqueur
Shake. Cocktail glass.

The Natasha Cocktail has very sweet candy taste. It is amazing temptation.

Annouchka Cocktail was invented by Salvatore Calabrese. It is one of his signature cocktail. It is veru simple and delicious combination of vodka and sweet bleckberry liqueur.

Anouchka

70 ml vodka
10 ml creme de mur (blackberry liqueur)
Stir. Chilled cocktail glass.

This cocktail has strong and sweet berry taste. Admirable!

Recipe of Svetlana Cocktail was found on my favorite Cocktail DB.

Svetlana

45 ml 100 proof vodka
15 ml sweet vermouth
8 ml kirsch
8 ml orange juice
Shake. Cocktail glass. Garnish with orange peel.

This strong and elegant cocktail has comlex taste of vermouth and fruit with amazing bitter note in the aftertaste.

As you know mandarine (tangerine) is one of my favorite citrus fruits. Tangerine (juice) is so rare ingredient for mixology. This interesting cocktail was found on Dale`s DeGroff site:

Tangerine Margarita

60 ml tequila (Sauza Conmemorativo)
30 ml Cointreau
15 ml fresh lime juice
15 ml fresh tangerine juice
Shake. Serve on the rocks with salt rim.

It is amazing coctail, first of all, because it is Margarita :) Great Margarita on the rocks with some piquant note of fresh tangerines. Great cocktail, but in my mind was born some fantasies:

Mandarine Margarita

60 ml tequila
30 ml Mandarine Napoleon liqueur
15 ml fresh lime juice
15 ml fresh tangerine juice
Shake. Strain over ice into old-fashioned glass with salt rim. Garnish with lime wheel.

Admirable! This cocktail has rich sunny color and interesting taste, because it is Margarita too :)

This cocktail is my special offer for all lovers on this Valentay`s Day. This recipe of Carribean Cosmopolitan Cocktail from The Joy of Mixology, Gary Regan.

Carribean Cosmopolitan

60 ml Bacardi Limon
15 ml triple sec (Cointreau)
15 ml fresh lime juice
8 ml pineapple juice
8 ml cranberry juice
Angostura Bitters, to taste (I used 3 drops)
Shake and strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with the cherry.

Admirable cocktail for Valentain`s Day has exotic taste and great look!

This MxMo XXXV theme is “Broaden Your Horizons”. I think is very interesing and perspective theme for me. My wife help me to choose a cocktail and horizons which I investigate on this MxMo. Mixing with raw egg is my new horizons! Actually I fear (and hate) raw eggs. But for this MxMo I can beat my fear.

I decide to preapare White Lady Cocktail - really classic and famous cocktail. Good story of this cocktail you may read on Esquire Drink Database. This cocktail is realy monumental. Some imbabers, for example Anthony Hogg (in book Cocktails and Mixed Drinks), pay great attention to White Lady Cocktail. It take second place (after Martini!) in Big Seven by Anthony Hogg. White Lady Cocktail has so simple and elegant composition - gin, Cointreau, fresh lemon juice and dash of raw egg white.

White Lady

50 ml gin
25 ml Cointreau
25 ml fresh lemon juice
1 bsp. of raw eqq white
Shake well with a lot of cracked ice. Strain in to cocktail glass.

White Lady Cocktail is perfect drink with really smooth taste and great texture. The perfect white foam on the top is great garnish of this cocktail.

This elegant cocktail was invented in lobby-bar Savoy Hotel (not Claridge as you may reflect!). Claridge Cocktail has very interesting and real taste. I think it is ideal on after work evening or romantic night.

Claridge

30 ml gin
30 ml dry vermouth
15 ml Cointreau
15 ml apricot brandy
Shake. Cocktail glass.

Admirable! Claridge Cocktail has unique rich sweet taste. Actually the taste of Claridge Cocktail not depend on its coldness - this cocktail has very good taste at room temperature.

Strange creation of famous tiki-bartender Don “Beach” Beachcomber. Cocktail Waikiki Beachcomber has very classic construction - main alcohol + liqueur (sweetener) + juice (mixer). Only pineapple juice demonstrate exotic soul of this cocktail :)

Waikiki Beachcomber

30 ml gin
30 ml Cointreau
30 ml pineapple juice
Shake. Cocktail glass.

Admirable cocktail with bright exotic-candy taste.

This concoction is one of the rare case to use Bols Red Orange. Unintelligible cocktail was found on Drinksmixer - a dump of strange cocktail recipe.

Bloody Sun

20 ml gin
20 ml Bols Red Orange liqueur
10 ml Cointreau
orange juice
Shake gin, orange liqueur and cointreau. Pour into a glass filled with ice cubes and fill with orange juice. Old-Fashioned glass.

It is ordinary “tropical” drink with light, sweet and citrus taste. Nothing special.

Undoubtedly Margarita is unique cocktail. This symbol of cocktails has simple composition and unlimited tastes ability. And of course Margarita is very popular cocktail, which we can find every bar. And this make Margarita cocktail most bastardised cocktail on the world.

The story of invention of Margarita is very unclear. I know about five “inventors” at least. If you interesting by this stoty, you can find some facts here.

This post about my search of Ideal or Ultimate Margarita. I started with recipe of my first Margarita.

Margarita (Salvatore Calabrese)

30 ml premium tequila 100% agava
20 ml Cointreau
30 ml fresh lime juice
Shake with a lot of crushed ice. Strain in to cocktail glass with salt rimm.

Take your favorite metal shaker. No matter boston or cobbler shaker, I think. Usually I use my cobbler shaker shaker for my Margarita. Fill shaker on 1/2 or 2/3 (depending on volume of shaker) with crushed ice. Pour tequila, Cointreau and fresh pressed, double strained lime juice. Shake hard untill shaker frost (30 sec). Strain in cocktail glass rimmed with salt. Garnish with piece of lime (optional).

Wet glass rim with a piece of lime and gentle salt it for your perfect salt rim.

Use only best 100% agava tequila for your Margarita. Only 100% agava help us to obtain excellent results. I use tequila Leyenda de Milagro for my Ultimate Margarita.

I think that sugar syrup is no good choice for Ultimate Margarita with premium tequila. I prefer to decrease of amount of lime juice for less sour cocktail. I think that crushed ice for shake is best choice for very cold and optimal diluted cocktail.

I tested several Margaitas with different tequilas (Milagro, Jose Cuervo, Olmeca). Actually only 100% agava tequila give perfect cocktail. Ordinary tequila give us mediocre result.

You may serve Margarita straight, on the rocks and frozen. I tested this three kind of Margarita for better understanding this cocktail. For my “Margarita on the rocks” I use Jeffrey Morgentaller`s recipe:

Margarita on the rocks

40 ml tequila
20 ml Cointreau
10 ml fresh lime juice
10 ml fresh lemon juice
10 ml simple syrup
Shake. Strain on the rocks, garnish with a salr rim and lime wheel.

Actually this Margarita on the rocks is admirable cocktail. This cocktail has light, smooth and refreshing taste. The balance of sour and sweet taste is perfect!

I use common recipe of Frozen Margarita from wiki.webtender.

Frozen Margarita

60 ml tequila
30 ml Cointreau
30 ml lime juice
Shake (or blend). Serve in margarita glass, salt-rimmed. Garnish with a piece of lime.

This is very refreshing sourless cocktail. I think that one or two dash of sugar syrup is great idea for Frozen Margarita. No sense to use ultrapremium tequila with this amount of crushed ice. Ordinary good quality tequila (like a Jose Cuervo Classico or Reposado) is best choice for Frozen Margarita.

Some results of this experiments are:

1. I prefer my Ultimate Magarita from ultrapremium tequila straight, with gentle salt rim, no garnish.

2. For ordinary tequilas I prefer Margarita “on the rocks” in half-salt rimmed glass with a lime wheel.

3. Garbage in, garbage out! This rule work extremely well with Margarita.

I find some interesting information about cocktail Margarita in book The Thinking Bartender by George Sinclair, which I download from George Sinclair`s blog last year. This blog is dead now… Anybody know where is George???

I use another my 100% agava tequila - Los Arango Reposado for experiments with Ultimate Margarita ratio.

2:1:1 Margarita (Francisco “Pancho” Morales)

40 ml tequila 100% agava
20 ml Cointreau
20 ml fresh lime juice
Shake with ice, and then strain into chilled cocktail glass, which is rimmed with salt.

Amazing sour less Margarita with bright tequila taste. Very good ratio for premium tequila.

3:1:1 Margarita (Margaret Sames)

45 ml tequila 100% agava
15 ml Cointreau
15 ml fresh lime juice
Shake with ice, and then strain into a chilled champagne glass (saucer style), which is rimmed with salt.

Strong and sour less Margarita. The strength obstruct tequila taste and cocktail has crude taste.

3:2:1 Margarita (Carlos “Danny” Herrera)

45 ml tequila 100% agava
22,5 ml Cointreau
15 ml fresh lime juice
Shake with ice, and then strain into a chilled champagne glass (saucer style), which is rimmed with salt.

This cocktail has interesting and well-balanced less sour citrus taste. My wife like this version very much.

1:1:1 Margarita (Danny Negrete)

30 ml tequila 100% agava
30 ml Cointreau
30 ml fresh lime juice
Shake with ice, and then strain into a chilled champagne glass (saucer style), which is rimmed with salt.

This cocktail is not bad, but tequila taste is no bright. This ratio is not for premium tequila, as for me.

In my opinion none of the described ratio is “ultimate”. I like sour and bright Margarita as my first Margarita :) This love from first sight, I think :) The taste of Margarita in ratio 3:2:3 is almost ultimate… Very close ratio has cocktail Tequila from book Cocktails and Mixed Drinks by Anthony Hogg.

Tequila Cocktail (Anthony Hogg)

30 ml tequila 100% agava
15 ml Cointreau
30 ml fresh lime juice
Shake with ice, and then strain into chilled cocktail glass, which is rimmed with salt (optional).

Admirable cocktail! This version is very close to my favorite. Sour, refresh and bright cocktail.

I drink Margarita cocktail during 2 week but find no Ultimate Margarita except my favorite first Margarita. But I purshased several new bottle of tequila. One of them is unique Leyenda de Milagro Selected Barrel Anejo, tequila aged more then 3 years under control of Mexican government (wtf?). I decide tp prepare Ultrapremium Margarita from this tequila.

/skipped by autor, for Ultrapremium Margarita see here/

For ultimate understanding construction of Margarita Cocktail I tested Margarita with juice of lemon instead lime juice. I prepare cocktail in my favorite ratio 3:2:3. For this experiment I use one of my new tequilas - Leyenda de Milagro Reposado 100% agava.

I obtain result like comparsion Kamikaze with Balalika. Cocktail with lime juice has more bright, sharp and refreshing taste. Cocktail with lemon juice has smooth and sweet taste. My choice is lime, of course.

Oh my God! The search of Ultimate Margarita is miracle and very pleasant process! Thanks God for Margarita Cocktail!