Sherry Margarita

Name: Sherry Margarita
Yield: 1 drink
Ingredients: 1 ounce manzanilla sherry; 1 ounce blanco tequila; 3/4 ounce orange liqueur; 3/4 ounce fresh lime juice; 1/4 ounce agave or simple syrup; Pinch of flaky sea salt; Ice; Lime wedge or wheel, for serving

By Rebekah Peppler

Rating: 5(105)
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Manzanilla sherry, produced exclusively in the seaside township of Sanlúcar de Barrameda in southern Spain, is extremely dry and acidic. It’s also distinctly more saline than other fino sherries (which you could also use in this recipe). Combined with a pinch of salt, manzanilla amplifies and brightens the lime, rounds tequila’s edge and allows this margarita to go down that much more smoothly.

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Ingredients

Yield:1 drink

1ounce manzanilla sherry
1ounce blanco tequila
¾ounce orange liqueur
¾ounce fresh lime juice
¼ounce agave or simple syrup
Pinch of flaky sea salt
Ice
Lime wedge or wheel, for serving

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Preparation

Step 1
In a shaker, combine the sherry, tequila, orange liqueur, lime juice, agave and salt. Add ice and shake until well chilled. Fill a rocks glass with ice. Strain the cocktail into the glass and garnish with lime.

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rachel2 years ago

Perfect summer cocktail

LindaL2 years ago

Really good. Complex, not too sweet.

George B3 years ago

This is really just 2/3 of the drink called the 'Latin Trifecta,' which adds amaro for the third ingredient. Look that one up if you liked this one.

John3 years ago

Used Cappelletti in place of the orange liquor. Was absolutely delicious.

JJ4 years ago

Any particular orange liqueur? Would Cointreau do?

Dudley4 years ago

This was excellent. We love sherry and we love margaritas. We used oloroso sherry as that is all we could quickly find in the liquor closet. We used significantly less agave than the recipe called for and it was still plenty sweet.

KAT4 years ago

OMG, this is dangerously good. My glass was empty before I even realized I was drinking it so fast!

Diana Cole4 years ago

Same here!!

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