Name: Cherry Margarita
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Reposado tequila; 15 ml Cherry brandy; 10 ml Maraschino liqueur; 15 ml Lime juice; 3 drop Saline solution 4:1

Ingredients

1 ¹⁄₂ fl oz

Reposado tequila (100% agave)

¹⁄₂ fl oz

Cherry (brandy) liqueur

¹⁄₃ fl oz

Luxardo Maraschino liqueur

¹⁄₂ fl oz

Lime juice (freshly squeezed)

3 drop

Saline solution (20g sea salt to 80g water) or merest pinch of s

How to make

Glass

Prepare

Select and pre-chill an OLD-FASHIONED GLASS.

RIM glass with salt (moisten outside edge with lime or orange juice and dip into salt).

Prepare garnish of lime wedge.

Method

SHAKE all ingredients with ice.

STRAIN into ice-filled glass.

Garnish

Garnish with lime wedge.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Cherry Margarita contains 177 calories

Alcohol content:

1.4 standard drinks
21.43% alc./vol. (42.87° proof)
19.6 grams of pure alcohol

Comments & Discussion

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Carolyn Rush 1y

Excellent!
I substituted tart cherry concentrate for the cherry liqueur, increased the tequila to 60 ml and bumped up the lime juice a titch.
It's like a margarita and a bomb pop had a baby! :)

John Hinojos Premium Member 3y

Made this again this evening and it was as wonderful as I remembered. This time did a "tiki drink" pour on the tequila (just a little over). Since cherries are just coming into season here in Southern California, we garnished with some fresh cherries. They were wonderful as they had soaked up all the flavours from the cocktail.

Christina Bickley 3y

Little too medicinal.

Pascal Seeger 3y

Tried this with 30ml Reposado Tequila, 15ml Mezcal (I like Smoky kites and cherry a lot) and upped the lime Juice to 30ml (2/3 oz.). Wasn't quite right but got better with dilution. Fells sort of off but I wouldn't be able to tell you why.

Pascal Seeger 3y

*Smoky notes

John Hinojos Premium Member 3y

I would agree, I think the smoky of the mezcal would fight a bit with the other flavours.

G. M. Genovese Premium Member 3y

Didn't research this beyond your notes here... Three attempts in this order: Cherry Heering, Ginja Mariquinhas, Luxardo Maraschino... All rather different, as one would expect... And it kind of improved with each shake, with the latter two clearly outshining the saccharine predecessor, yuck. (16 Nov 2022, 5:32a)

Simon Difford Verified User Premium Member 3y

Agreed! the introduction Luxardo Maraschino greatly benefits this cocktail so I have rejigged the recipe accordingly.

John Hinojos Premium Member 4y

Outstanding. Living in San Diego, California, always looking for a new and refreshing version of a Margarita. This has wonderful hints of Cherry with the Reposado Tequila very much forward. Also tried it with the Difford's Margarita Bitters and it just pushed it up a notch. Great flavours.

Steven Jepson Premium Member 4y

The first of the English Cherries hit the supermarkets plump juicy and tasy so had to try this one. Dreamy - I cut back the cherry brandy slightly but muddled 3 whole cherries.
A really refreshing drink with the tequila making it a sour cherry experience