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Ideal concoction for hot summer days is Frozen Cocktails, particularly Frozen Margaritas. Actually, my favorite Ultimate Margarita I prefer only straight up, but its fruit sisters are great frozen.

Frozen Melon Margarita

45 ml tequila
30 ml Midori melon liqueur
60 ml sweet and sour mix
Blend with appropriate quantity of ice until smooth. Serve in margarita glass. Garnish with lime wheel.

De facto, it is my first frozen cocktail. It has pure-like consistence and it is ice-cold. Great smooth and light cocktail.

Frozen Watermelon Margarita

45 ml tequila
30 ml watermelon liqueur
60 ml sweet and sour mix
Blend with appropriate quantity of ice until smooth. Serve in margarita glass. Garnish with lime wheel.

The Watermelon Margarita is very popular cocktail among my guests. Frozen version is great too. Bright and delicious cocktail.

Frozen Apple Margarita

45 ml tequila
30 ml apple liqueur (or schnapps)
60 ml sweet and sour mix
Blend with appropriate quantity of ice until smooth. Serve in margarita glass. Garnish with lime wheel.

Frozen Apple Margarita is admirable cocktail. It has smooth and little sour apple taste. Great!

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 :)

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 :)

I use Webtender Wiki for new cocktails this evening. I go mad on tiki-drinks last few days and search something interesting here. And I find great idea - my favorite Mai Tai cocktail, but which made with blended scotch instead rum! Wow! Great idea, I think. And this cocktail has amazing name - Honi Honi… Another great idea - Pinky Gonzalez (Mai Tai with tequila instead rum) I find right here. It is great idea for comparsion of this cocktail.

I use my favorite motto - “Creating a drink that would be the finest drink we could make, using the finest ingredients we could find” (Trader Vic about Mai Tai`s idea) for components choice. Best scotch in my liquore cabinet is Famous Grause 12 y.o. and best tequila - Leyenda del Milagro Select Barrel Reserve Anejo. Both ingredients are ultimate spirit in my collection.

Honi Honi

45 ml blended whisky
15 ml orgeat
15 ml orange curacao
7 ml rock candy syrup
30 ml fresh lime juice
Shake all ingredients and strain in rocks glass over ice. Garnish traditionaly.

Actually it is great, well-balanced cocktail. The scotch give fascinating complex aftertaste.

Pinky Gonzalez

45 ml tequila
15 ml orgeat
15 ml orange curacao
7ml rock candy syrup
30 ml fresh lime juice
Shake all ingredients and strain in rocks glass over ice. Garnish traditionaly.

This is amazing cocktail too. It has complex sweet taste, but in color it is light brown :)

P.S. Another Honi Honi Cocktail - consist of light rum, apricot brandy and lemon juice. It will be tasted soon :)

We are happy with this cocktail today :) It is ideal concoction for romantic evening. Fast, simple and very effective.

Silver Amour-a-Rita

45 ml silver tequila
30 ml Parfait Amour liqueur
15 ml fresh lime juice
Shake. Strain into cocktail glass. Garnish with thin orange slice.

Admirable!

P.S. This cocktail I prepared with rare bottle of Jose Cuervo La Rojena. This bottle has strange label and NOM 1104 (my ordinary bottle has NOM 1122). The taste of this tequila is so different too.

If you now something interesting about this tequila, please, write this in the comments.

I am very happy now. My blog work again! Thanks to my brother (and admin of this blog) for this.

Let me celebrate this event with two my favorite shooters:

Electric Banana

1 part banana liqueur
1 part silver tequila
Build (layer) ingredients (chilled) in a shooter.

Brave Bull

1 part coffee liqueur (Kahlua)
1 part silver tequila
Build (layer) ingredients (chilled) in a shooter.

Let`s go!

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!

I am in love now :) My new love is Margarita! Margarita cocktail is my TOP-1 now. I discover this cocktail during last ten days. As result I has two new bottle of tequila and many different Margaritas.

On of my new tequila is ultrapremium Leyenda de Milagro Selected Barrel Anejo (82 USD). I use this extraordinary spirit for construction of Ultrapremium Margarita. I now, that common case anejo tequila is not right ingredient for Margarita. The spirits of this quality usually reserved for sipping, not for mixed drinks. But I purshase this tequila for one of my new Margarita in my Ultimate Margarita search.

For my Ultrapremium Margarita I use anejo tequila, fresh lime juice and Grand Marnier liqueur in ratio 3:1:1. The cost of these three ingredients is more than 125$ Not bad, as for me!

Ultrapremium Margarita

45 ml ultrapremium anejo tequila 100% agava
15 ml Grand Marnier
15 ml fresh lime juice
Shake with a lot of crushed ice, and then strain into chilled cocktail glass, which is half-rimmed with salt.

I create this individual post about Ultrapremium Margarita because this is very special cocktail. The taste of this Margarita more closer to Side Car. Actually it is great cocktail which has rich and strong taste. This cocktail is no comparable to my over Margarita.

One more margarita on my blog. This cocktail is rare chance to use watermelon liqueur. I has one bottle of it - Marie Brizzard Watermelon no so artificial as I suppose. The taste of ripe watermelon is great sign of summer, and this cocktail is drink with great summer taste arround year.

Watermelon Margarita

30 ml silver tequila
30 ml watermelon liqueur
40 ml margarita mix
Shake witk a lot of cracked ice. Serve in cocktail or margarita glass. Garnish with piece if fruit.

Margarita mix is a mix of equal parts of fresh lemon, lime juice, Cointreau and gomme syrup.

Admirable!

This modern cocktail has unusual candy taste. I think is a good choice for party-bar in summer.It is so delicious concoction with big amount of liquid and sugar. Great choice for girls on dance floor :)

Tutti Frutti

20 ml passion fruit liqueur
20 ml melon liqueur
20 ml silver tequila
100 ml cranberry juice
Shake liqueurs and tequila. Strain in ice-filled collins glass. Garnish with lime wedge.

Admirable!