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Mexican Martini (Mex-Mart)

Name: Mexican Martini (Mex-Mart)
Total time: 5 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 40 ml Reposado tequila; 22.5 ml Triple sec; 22.5 ml Lime juice; 7.5 ml Olive brine

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Ingredients
1 ¹⁄₃ fl oz	Reposado tequila (100% agave)
³⁄₄ fl oz	Cointreau L'Unique triple sec liqueur
³⁄₄ fl oz	Lime juice (freshly squeezed)
¹⁄₄ fl oz	Green olive brine

How to make

Glass

Photographed in an Urban Bar Freddo Coupe Glass

Prepare

Select and pre-chill a COUPE GLASS.
RIM glass with salt (moisten outside edge with lime or orange juice and dip into salt).
Prepare garnish of lime wedge & 3 skewered three pimiento-stuffed green olives.

Method

SHAKE all ingredients with ice.
STRAIN into pre-prepared glass.

Garnish

Garnish with lime wedge on rim and skewered olives.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Mexican Martini (Mex-Mart) contains 151 calories

Alcohol content:

1.4 standard drinks
19.87% alc./vol. (39.74° proof)
19.7 grams of pure alcohol

History

Adapted from a cocktail served at the Cedar Door Patio Bar and Grill in Austin, Texas, USA, since the early 1980s after one of its bartenders, named Ellen, was served a Margarita while on vacation in Matamoros, Mexico. Ellen took the idea back to the Cedar Door's owners, Gus and Diane Koerner and their longstanding bartender, Jim LeMond, created the recipe and added what would become the bar's signature cocktail to the menu.

Review

Not another Neo-Martini but an olive brine-enriched Margarita.

AKA: Texas Martini, Dirty Margarita

Patron Reposado Tequila 375ml - makes 9 cocktails
$26.99 $3.00 per cocktail Patron Reposado Tequila image

Cointreau L'Unique 375ml - makes 16.5 cocktails
$21.99 $1.33 per cocktail Cointreau L'Unique image

$4.33 per cocktail*

Makes a minimum of 9 cocktails.
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Comments & Discussion

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William Smith 1y

I had one, or maybe two, at the Cedar Door back in 2014. This is the drink that got me started mixing cocktails.

John Hinojos Premium Member 2y

Had this cocktail again with Mexican food. It went perfectly as it is basically a margarita with a little olive brine. Brings out a savoury flavour which goes well with the food.

John Hinojos Premium Member 3y

Went perfectly as an aperitif before a Mexican supper. The brine from the olives went wonderfully. The saltiness of the brine works well with the lime and triple sec.

Pekka Savolainen 3y

Exceptional. Just wondering what to do with leftover olives…

Jakub Piechowicz 3y

Hmm, eat?

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