A savory, spice-laced tequila cooler, blood-red in the glass, where tomato and orange juice lend body and a soft sweetness that a spoonful of honey rounds out. Lime and Worcestershire sharpen it, while a whisper of chili and a salted rim bring a slow heat that builds over the ice.
Garnish: Chili Pepper
built · Old Fashioned · On the Rocks
rinse
Rim an old fashioned glass with salt and fill with ice.
build
Pour the tequila, tomato juice, orange juice, lime juice, honey, and Worcestershire sauce into the glass; add the sliced chili pepper.
stir
Stir well until the honey dissolves and the flavors are blended.
garnish
Garnish with a whole chili pepper on the rim.
In the early 1980s Oscar Hernández, who sold fruit from a stand in the lakeside town of San Luis Soyatlán, Jalisco, began spiking the local tequila-and-soda with sangrita, the tomato, citrus and chili mix whose name means "little blood." That crimson colour, along with street-style service in a bag sipped through a straw, gave the drink its vampire name, and its reputation spread outward from his stall by word of mouth — a story journalist Duncan Tucker later recorded. It has since become a staple across Mexico and earned a place among the IBA's official cocktails.