Name: Mezcalita
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Mezcal; 22.5 ml Triple sec; 22.5 ml Lime juice; 15 ml Orange juice; 5 ml Agave syrup; 8 drop Margarita Bitters; 2 drop Saline solution 4:1

Ingredients

1 ¹⁄₂ fl oz

Del Maguey Vida Clásico Mezcal

³⁄₄ fl oz

Cointreau L'Unique triple sec liqueur

³⁄₄ fl oz

Lime juice (freshly squeezed)

¹⁄₂ fl oz

Orange juice (freshly squeezed)

¹⁄₆ fl oz

Agave syrup (agave nectar)

8 drop

Difford's Margarita Bitters

2 drop

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

How to make

Glassware

Prepare

Select and pre-chill an OLD-FASHIONED GLASS.

RIM glass with Tajín seasoning (moisten outside edge with lime or orange juice and drip into Tajín).

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 Mezcalita contains 170 calories

Alcohol content:

1.6 standard drinks
18.66% alc./vol. (37.31° proof)
22.1 grams of pure alcohol

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Comments & Discussion

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Morten Carlsbaek Premium Member 11w

Loved it a lot. Did double amount of orange juice, partly because of bland oranges sold in Denmark, partly because of previous comment by another here on diffords guide. And I doubled drops of saline solution and skipped Tahin on glass edge, also inspired by a comment here.
It is a warm summer late afternoon and this cocktail is so appropriate:-)

Ruth Harvey 13w

I had to use orgeat syrup instead of agave. Delicious! I will happily make it again using ingredients to the letter of the recipe.

Loz Horner 14w

Very nice. We beef up the quantity of orange a little as we really like the orange smokiness.

Cassandra Adams Premium Member 21w

A wonderful drink, but, as mezcal margaritas go, a little too sweet for our taste.

Cassandra Adams Premium Member 21w

To be more specific, we found the initial sweetness coupled with the later dry/smokiness and the tajin salt to be a tad jarring.

Sally Morgan Premium Member 26w

had to do without Tajin which I think would make it even better, but this is a stunner. There's a real smoky taste from the Mezcal which would make this a great pairing to a smoked barbecue. It's definitely getting an outing next time I'm cooking pulled pork.

Calvin Grant Premium Member 32w

Amazing what a bit of orange juice and some Tajín can do to a mezcal margarita! Marvelous!

Simon Sedgley Premium Member 32w

This brings our total of favourite Margaritas to in excess of a dozen. We always do Margaritas straight up in a Coupe glass, being very resistant to any dilution of this magnificently bold and generous cocktail.

Calvin Grant Premium Member 32w

Yeah, skip the ice.

Richard Elgar Premium Member 32w

Looks good! Seems a little weaker than the one I submitted in 2023!! The salt seems appropriate, but I'm not sure it's needed if using Tajín.
https://www.diffordsguide.com/cocktails/recipe/20117/mezcalita

Simon Difford Verified User Premium Member 32w

Thanks, Richard. I wish I'd picked up on your recipe and the Mezcalita back in 2023. My recipe has the same alcohol strength, or even a little higher than yours, due to a lower proportion of orange juice, but fewer units of alcohol due to smaller measures. Your recipe has 90ml of 40% liquor, while I try to keep to 75ml max.