Like many basic cocktails, the origins surrounding the Margarita are murky. Some declare a socialite within the late Thirties blended the drink at a home celebration. Others assert a Tijuana-based bartender devised the recipe across the identical time. No matter its origin, the Margarita has been a fixture in American cocktail tradition. In flip, bartenders have given many layered takes, modifying the drink past its three-ingredient mixture of tequila, lime juice, and orange liqueur.
However there’s a rendition that Margarita aficionados could wish to add to their recipe books: the ITALICUS Margarita. This summer time expression refreshes the famend cocktail by changing orange liqueur with ITALICUS Rosolio di Bergamotto, a low-proof bergamot aperitivo that champions Italian fragrant citrus.
This Aperitif-like spin isn’t essentially reinventing the wheel, slightly it provides a contemporary, nuanced (and Mediterranean-inspired) tackle the Margarita. The bottom of the drink is equal components tequila blanco and ITALICUS. “It’s an ideal match with agave spirits,” says ITALICUS founder Giuseppe Gallo. “It actually balances the grassy notes of tequila, including an fragrant contact to drinks just like the Margarita.”
In comparison with its counterpart of orange liqueur with an ABV spanning from 30-40 %, ITALICUS is 20 % ABV. “It’s a lower-proof cocktail that may also be loved for pre-dinner drinks however can also be an all-times [sic] excellent drink to sip on with pals over dinner, at a pool celebration, or a barbeque.” Gallo says. He finishes the recipe with a half-ounce recent lime juice, one bar spoon of agave nectar, then swaps out the salt rim for 3 inexperienced olives; “So as to add a contact of saltiness for umami style lovers,” he says.
Refresh your Margarita with a contact of fragrant bergamot from ITALICUS Rosolio di Bergamotto.
INGREDIENTS
Serving: 1
1 ounce ITALICUS Rosolio di Bergamotto
1 ounce tequila blanco
1/2 ounce recent lime juice
1 bar spoon agave nectar
Garnish: Nocellara olives.
DIRECTIONS
- Add the ITALICUS Rosolio di Bergamotto, tequila blanco, recent lime juice, and agave nectar to a cocktail shaker.
- Add ice, then shake till chilled.
- Pressure right into a coup.
- Garnish with Nocellara olives.
