A bone-dry tequila sour of blanco tequila and fresh lime, sweetened only by a restrained pour of grenadine and shot through with a generous lash of Angostura. It drinks leaner and sharper than a Margarita, the bitters and citrus snapping the grenadine's sweetness into balance while the ice keeps it cold and bracing.
Garnish: Lime Wheel
Shaken · Rocks · On the Rocks
add
Add tequila, lime juice, grenadine, and Angostura bitters to a shaker.
shake
Add ice and shake until well chilled.
strain
Strain into a rocks glass over fresh ice.
garnish
Garnish with a lime wheel.
The drink turns up in 1937, when Charles H. Baker came across it at La Cucaracha Bar in Mexico City, a spot staffed by American bartenders who had taken their trade south during Prohibition. No individual bartender is credited with inventing it, and Baker was its chronicler rather than its maker, writing it into the second volume of The Gentleman's Companion in 1939. It has since become a widely attested classic, with today's versions largely agreeing on equal measures of lime and grenadine against the tequila.