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To quote a "long time Californian and frequent visitor to America's Southwest", this recipe is a classic Margarita but "with a few tweaks. Usually a silver/blanco...
Possibly the happiest I've been with a margarita that I've made myself. The perfect balance of sweet and sour. I triple checked the recipe and the comments to see if it was really supposed to be lime instead of the lemon, but the lemon does it right in spite of my expectations.
One of my favourite cocktails which I thouught would be difficult to improve on. Taylor's Velvet is good but Difford's/Bob's is better. Tonight I subbed Raicilla for Tequila and damn i know have to start rating with six stars! All hyperbole aside, Tequila fans, get some Raicilla in your drinks cabinet, you won't regret it.
Have tried this now with 1/6 and 1/4 Falernum. It's better with less. Gets a little muddled (for mine) with the extra Falernum - loses the Margarita citrus sour effect and becomes a pretty ordinary cocktail.
Very good cocktail. As for some guest it was a bit too much on the sour side, I added for them a barspoon sugar syrup. This enhanced the falernum beautifully.
Anonymous
24th August 2021 at 16:19
Thank you.
I used lime juice and Diffords falernum with a pinch of Cornish sea salt. Delicious, quite sour, definitely falls under the heading of aperitif cocktails for me.
Native Californian here! Herded the comments and upoed the falernum and it was a Bit too funky for me. Wanted to love it, but didn’t. I will try it according to the spec before rating.