Name: Metexa
Prep time: 3 min
Total time: 3 min
Yield: 1
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 1 Grapefruit peel/zest; 45 ml Americano bianco; 15 ml Tequila blanco; 15 ml Swedish Punsch liqueur

Serve in a

Coupe glass

Garnish:

Grapefruit zest twist

How to make:

Express the oils of a coin-size grapefruit zest into the base of stirring glass. Add other ingredients, STIR with ice (regal stir) and strain into chilled glass.

1 disc	Grapefruit peel/zest
1 1/2 fl oz	Americano bianco
1/2 fl oz	Patrón Silver blanco tequila
1/2 fl oz	Swedish Punsch liqueur
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Review:

Bitter grapefruit oils replace the quinine bitterness in the original 1930s version of this refreshing aromatised wine and tequila aperitivo.

History:

Adapted from Jamie Boudreau's riff on the classic Metexa which first appeared in William James "Billy" Tarling's 1937 Café Royal Bar Book

METEXA
Invented by J. E. Mouncer
1/4 Tequila.
1/4 Swedish Punch.
1/2 Lillet.
Shake.
W.J. Tarling, Café Royal Cocktail Book, 1937

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Alcohol content:

0.6 standard drinks
10.65% alc./vol. (21.3° proof)
8 grams of pure alcohol

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