Tequila & Soda

A two-ingredient highball that lets the agave do the talking: clean blanco tequila stretched long over ice with soda water and a squeeze of lime. It belongs to the same convergent lineage as the Scotch and soda and the gin and tonic — a spirit simply lengthened and lifted with bubbles, no inventor required. Bone-dry, bracing, and built in the glass in seconds, it is the low-fuss counterpoint to tequila's sweeter cousins, the Margarita and the Paloma.