Margarita cocktail

So green and fresh that it must be good for you, as well as tasting great.

A Margarita with a touch of smoky character and plenty of warming oomph. It crossed my mind that whatever "oomph" is in Spanish would be a fitting...

Spicy smoky pineapple with hints of agave and bitter orange with balancing white wine acidy.

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...

The Cosmopolitan meets the Margarita in this gloriously pink cocktail.

Just as the name promises, a cinnamon and pomegranate-flavoured Margarita.

An almond, mezcal and herbal liqueur Margarita with a touch of fire-breathing hot pepper sauce.

A refreshing riff on a Mezcal Margarita with enlivening chili heat.

A hint of chilli heat adds interest to an Apple Margarita, creating a full flavoured contemporary classic.

A cinnamon and pineapple tequila sour. The Margarita Bitters are my own addition.

Ginger liqueur replaces orange liqueur in this lightly spicy margarita.

Perhaps better billed as being a 'Pineapple and Cardamom Margarita'.

Unusually, a stirred (not shaken) drink with citrus, and depending on your jalapeños your lips could be merely warmed or scorched. Alternatively...

Two massively flavoursome spirits and two very characterful liqueurs combine harmoniously in this delicious sour.

Spicy tequila and pineapple tingle with balance and flavour.

Sip a chilli-spiced straight-up Margarita through a thin layer of devilishly red wine.

A Margarita with a Marmite rim. After all, yeast extract is slightly salty.

Lightly smoky mezcal with ginger spice and zesty citrus.

a Tommy's Margarita with coriander/cilantro and chilli spice. The "Spicy Margarita" that led the trend.

A wonderfully quince influenced Margarita.

A refreshing Margarita, with subtle ginger, pepper spice and rose notes. You can substitute half a barspoon of jalapeno oil in place of the...

A spiced margarita-style cocktail.

Margarita-like, enriched with pomegranate molasses and charged with a touch of chili heat.

Margarita-like with a wisp of peaty smoke.

Just as it says on the tin, but delicately smoky and subtly spicy.

A Mezcal Margarita with chili, ginger and pineapple, mellowed by a splash of foaming egg white.

Smoked chargrilled pineapple laced with spiced agave.

Having tried the Tommy's version of this cocktail, (which as it doesn't have an orange liqueur is actually a "Tequila Sour",) I wanted to make it...

Just as it says on the tin: a Mango Margarita with enlivening chili spice.