It’s another Tequila Sunrise

Tall cocktail with tequila and orange juice.

Ingredients:

• 30ml tequila
• 120ml orange juice (depending on the size of your glass)
• dash of Grenadine

Instructions:

Shake/stir tequila and orange juice together and pour into a glass with ice. Pour a dash of grenadine down the side of the glass. It will sink to the bottom and then rise up through the bottom of the orange juice.

Tequila is a type of spirit distilled from agave plants. To be called tequila, it has to be made in specific regions of Mexico and be at least 51% made from the blue agave. The best tequila is apparently 100% blue agave. The stuff made from 51% agave & 49% maize or sugarcane is called mixto.

Unaged tequila is clear in colour (often sold as silver tequila or tequila blanco). If it has been aged for a couple of months (in oak barrels) it is called reposado (rested) and is golden in colour. If it has been aged over a year, it is called anejo (aged), and is also gold in colour and said to be more mellow (and is more expensive).

If colour and flavour (usually caramel) have been added to make fresh tequila look and taste a bit like reposado or anejo then it is called joven (young), and often sold as 'gold tequila'.

So far, the only tequila I have ever bought is Jose Cuervo Especiál (Cuervo Gold). I'm intending to go to the Mexican Café sometime soon and try some different tequilas so I can perhaps buy something nicer next time.