Name: Rosalia Margarita
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 40 ml Blanco tequila; 10 ml Red bitter liqueur; 10 ml Lemon juice; 15 ml Rose sugar syrup

Rosalia Margarita
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Serve in a Coupe glass

Ingredients:
1 ¹⁄₃ oz	Patrón Silver blanco tequila
¹⁄₃ oz	Strucchi Red Bitter (Campari-style liqueur)
¹⁄₃ oz	Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
¹⁄₂ oz	Monin Rose Syrup

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Garnish: Lemon juice & Himalayan pink salt rim

How to make:

SHAKE all ingredients with ice and strain into chilled salt-rimmed glass.

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

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Review:

Delicately bittersweet with balancing citrus sourness and rich floral rose which combine brilliantly with the agave notes of the blanco tequila.

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History:

Created by Chiara Mascellaro for Margarita Day 2021. Votes by Discerning Drinkers on Difford's Guide led to this cocktail being declared the 2021 Margarita of the Year. (Chiara's original recipe used Martini Riserva Speciale Bitter as the red bitter liqueur.)

Nutrition:

One serving of Rosalia Margarita contains 152 calories

Alcohol content:

1 standard drinks
18.14% alc./vol. (18.14° proof)
13.6 grams of pure alcohol

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Simon Sedgley

24th September 2024 at 04:37

We felt that the aggregate volume specified in the recipe might look a tad ungenerous in our coupe glasses. So we upped the tequila to 50ml and the bitter liqueur and lemon juice each to 12.5ml. One of our rules is that the sweet must always serve the sour, not the other way around; so we dialled back the sweet to 10ml (7.5ml sugar syrup and 2.5ml natural rose essence). It's a bold Margarita and who could possibly complain about that?

Chris Dimal

30th January 2024 at 09:18

A very, very, very delicate cocktail. I did use Campari, and as a result, it actually felt like a Margarita, as Campari has more fruitiness than Martini Ambrato, with a floral, yet mineral taste, finished with a bitterness at the back end. Really nice, though I'm not sure it is 5 star material (just imho).

Simon Difford

1st February 2024 at 20:12

It’s a brilliantly simple and tasty riff on a Margarita, but I can’t argue with the Discerning Drinker community that has jointly judged the Rosalia Margarita 4.5-out-of-5.

John Hinojos

20th October 2023 at 01:32

Having lived my entire life in California and most of it in Southern California, I have had more margaritas than I can count. This was nice, but not outstanding.
Found it too sweet, even reducing the amount of syrup. Did add some Difford's Margarita Bitters and it made it drinkable, but nothing I would have again.

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justin elghanian

3rd October 2022 at 13:23

I am vegan what would the best substitute for Martini Riserva Speciale bitter be please?

Simon Difford

3rd October 2022 at 15:39

I would have suggested Campari or another such bitter but a search revealed: "Campari is vegetarian, however it is not classified as vegan."

Gregory Moreton

22nd July 2022 at 21:12

Just tried this one but substituted the Rose syrup with Lanique rose liqueur.... It works realy well but a touch of sweet could be added if neede

Cocktailpixie

4th June 2021 at 18:44

Yes! A beautiful and unexpected pleasure. Garnished with a scented pink rose petal from the garden.

Sandip Gohil

10th May 2021 at 00:36

Quite the flavour party this drink

Sally Morgan

18th April 2021 at 17:58

I’m a purist when it comes to margaritas. This is very very nice indeed. I’m struggling to call it a margarita but I’m willing to bet it will be my new best friend after another one.

Whatever you call it do try it.