Name: Toreador
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Blanco tequila; 22.5 ml Apricot liqueur; 22.5 ml Lime juice; 5 ml Sugar syrup 'rich' (2:1); 2 drop Saline solution 4:1

Bocman 45w

It was truly great! I’m not a fan of tequila, but this one was surprisingly good 🌵👍
Agreed with Carolyn Rush, no need sugar syrup doesn't really need.

Carolyn Rush 45w

Wow!!!
Dee-licious!
Bumped up the tequila to 60 ml (because we like our boozes boozy) and skipped the sugar syrup; it didn't seem to upset the balance.

This could be my new favorite go-to :)

Loïc Pierre 47w

Wow.

Calvin Grant Premium Member 1y

Thoroughly enjoyed this excellent rendition while reading about the history of the Margarita cocktail.

Sally Morgan Premium Member 1y

Like the blanco tequila in this and the apricot brandy makes a subtle change from orange based liqueurs

Egg McKenzie 1y

yes good thannks

Egg McKenzie 1y

did one with 25ml tequila 25ml mezcal which was also good but as simon says you don't need that much mezcal it actually overpowered the apricot declioicsuucoous still though wtf

Dávid Ugróczi 2y

It's nice and tart upfront, earthy and honey-like after. I had no margarita bitters so I used a dash of angostura instead. Great drink.

Kane McErvale Premium Member 3y

Black Pearl in Melbourne adds a dash of mezcal to this drink. It’s a delicious addition.

Simon Difford Verified User Premium Member 3y

Great call. I tried adding a good slug and a smaller measure of mezcal along with reducing tequila to leave space for mezcal. However, I preferred my longstanding recipe with just 2.5ml mezcal to act like dashes of bitters. That drove me to add Margarita bitters - thanks! That's not to say that 1/2 a spoon of mezcal wasn't a welcome and delicious addition.

John Hinojos Premium Member 5y

I like the subtle difference between this and the traditional Margarita. Did in a traditional 2-1-1 formula, but could have used a little sweetener as our Apricot Liqueur is not very sweet.

Arild Anda 5y

Inspired by the quite booze-heavy margarita recipe of the IBA, I tried those proportions for the toreador cocktail (10-4-2 in parts that is, not ounces...). I found that very, very good. A great drink that can be tweaked and improvised upon. My favourite is still with mezcal rather than tequila. The quite fruity and only moderately
“peated” Siete Misterios Doba-Yej is just lovely for this cocktail. Haven’t found your bitters in my home market but a floral bitters added should be perfect.

1 ¹⁄₂ fl oz	Blanco tequila
³⁄₄ fl oz	Luxardo Apricot Albicocca Liqueur
³⁄₄ fl oz	Lime juice (freshly squeezed)
¹⁄₆ fl oz	Sugar syrup 'rich' (2 sugar to 1 water) 65.0°Brix
2 drop	Saline solution (20g sea salt to 80g water) or merest pinch of s

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