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V 8 Picante Maria
How to mix a perfect Margarita?
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Ingredients:
- 2 oz silver tequila
- 1 oz triple sec
- 1 oz fresh lime juice
- Ice
- Salt (for rimming, optional)
- Lime wedges (for garnish)
Instructions:
1. Prepare the Glass:
- If desired, rim the glass with salt. Wet the rim with a lime wedge,
then dip it into a plate of salt to coat the rim evenly.
2. Fill the Shaker:
- Fill a cocktail shaker with ice. This ensures your Margarita is well-chilled and perfectly balanced.
3. Add Tequila:
- Pour 2 ounces of silver tequila into the shaker.
4. Add Triple Sec:
- Add 1 ounce of triple sec to the shaker. This orange-flavored liqueur complements the tequila and lime.
5. Squeeze Fresh Lime Juice:
- Squeeze the juice from fresh limes to obtain 1 ounce of lime juice. Fresh lime juice enhances the flavor of the Margarita.
6. Shake Well:
- Secure the lid on the shaker and shake the ingredients vigorously for
about 10-15 seconds. This ensures proper mixing and chilling.
7. Strain into Glass:
- Strain the mixture from the shaker into your prepared glass. You can use a fine strainer to remove ice chips if desired.
8. Garnish:
- Garnish your Margarita with a lime wedge on the rim for a decorative touch.
9. Serve and Enjoy:
- Your perfect Margarita is ready to be enjoyed! Sip and savor the delightful blend of tequila, citrus, and sweetness.
Ante
Very Strong ABV ( above 30% ), Potent and intense.
*Note that dilution and other factors like type and temperature of ice are not considered in this upfront calculation.
Fruity, sweet, spicy
- Apple Brandy 3 cl
- Triple Sec 1.50 cl
- Dubonnet French Vermouth 3 cl
cocktail glass
V 8 Picante Maria is a popular Vermouth cocktail containing a combinations of Apple Brandy,Triple Sec,Dubonnet French Vermouth .Served using a cocktail glassAnte Ingredients
Apple Brandy,Triple Sec,Dubonnet French Vermouth,
Ante Recipe
Stir all ingredients well with cracked ice, strain contents into a cocktail glass, and serve.
Apple Brandy
Brandy, simply put, is a distilled wine. It is categorised under Distilled Alcoholic Beverages along with Whiskey, Rum, Gin, Vodka and Tequila, but it's in a way a cross connection between Fermented liquor and distilled liquor. A Brandy typically containts 35% to 60% Alcohol by Volume ( 70-120 US proof ) and is usually consumed as an after dinner digestif.
Although Brandy is generally classified as a liquor produced by distilling wine, in a broader sense, this encompasses liquors obtained from the distillation of either pomace ( the soild remains of grapes after mashing and extraction of juice for wine making ) or fruit mash or wine.
It may be noted that Brandy like Gin is also one of the original Water of Life or eau de vie, carried over from the medieval tradition of an aquaous solution of ethanol used as a medicine.
The history of Brandy is closely tied to the development of commercial distillation in and around the 15th Century. In early 15th Century French Brandy made way for a new cross-Atlantic trade or Triangle Trade and replaced Portuguese Fortified Wine or Port from the central role it played in trade, mostly due to the higher alcohol content of the Brandy and ease of transport. However by the late 17th Century, Rum replaced Brandy as the exchange alcohol of choice in the Triangle Trade. More info on Wikipedia for the interested Brandy aficionados. Note that an Apricot Brandy can refer to the liquor (or Eau de Vie, Water of Life) distilled from fermented apricot juice or a liqueur made from apricot flesh and kernels.Triple Sec
Triple-Sec is an Orange flavoured liqueur from France. It is made by macerating sun dried orange peel in alcohol for a day or more before a three step distillation. Triple Sec has a 15% to 40% ABV.
The Triple Sec name refers to the process of distillation. Sec in French means dry or distilled and triple refers to the triple distillation process.
It's been a popular liqueur for more than 150 years, the Dutch East India Company created orange liqueurs by steeping orange peels in alcohol from the island of Curaçao and called it Curaçao liquor, and unlike Triple Sec, the Dutch added spices and herbs to the orange and Curaçao comes in a variety of colours such as clear, orange or blue. Blue Curaçao being the most used of them, in cocktails. Triple Sec is made from neutral spirits and the Orange peel used is harvested from oranges that have the skin still green, so that the essential oils are still in the skin and has not been absorbed into the flesh. This gives Triple Sec the intense flavour.Dubonnet French Vermouth
Vermouth the French for German Wermut, Wormwood in English, is an aromatic fortified Wine, flavoured with various botanicals like roots, barks, flowers, herbs, seeds and spices.
Although traditionally Vermouth was used for medicinal purposes, it has been also served as an apéritif in its modern avatar. The modern Vermouth first appeared in and around the 18th Century in Turin. By the late 19th Century it became very popular with bartenders as a key ingredient in cocktail mixology.
Martini, Manhattan, Rob Roy and Negroni were a few cocktails that Vermouth grew in popularity with. But later during the 20th Century, Vermouth slowly lost its glory and Dry Martinis and extra Dry Martinis with little or no Vermouth gained over the original Martini. Modern Martinis usually have a splash of Vermouth to add that herbacious texture to it.
Historically, there have been two Vermouth types, Dry and Sweet, but with demand variations have come up now. that include extra-dry white, sweet white, red, amber and rose.
Vermouth is produced by adding proprietory mixture of aromatic botanicals to a base wine or a base wine plus spirit or spirit only, which is usually redistilled before adding it to a base of neutral grape wine or unfermented wine must ( freshly pressed grapes and the juice ). After the wine is aromatised and fortified. it is sweetened and the end product is a Vermouth.
Dry Vermouth is what makes the character of the original Martini, and a Dry Vermouth has less sugar and is more herbacious but less spicier than Sweet Vermouth.
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