Celebrate Cinco de Mayo with PATRÓN, Cazadores, and Grand Marnier

Celebrate Cinco de Mayo with PATRÓN, Cazadores, and Grand Marnier! They are the trifecta of premium spirits for any Cinco celebration. Here are our favorite tequila cocktails to kick-off a fiesta or any Cinco de Mayo festivities you may be taking part in this year, with easy-to-make classics like margaritas, palomas, and shooters. Cheers!

Grand Margarita

 

Ingredients:

0.75 parts Grand Marnier Cordon Rouge (an exceptional blend of fine cognac and bitter orange liqueur)

1.5 parts Tequila

0.75 parts Fresh Lime Juice

0.25 parts Agave Nectar

Lime wheel to garnish

Salt Optional

 

Method: 

Fill a wide, shallow dish with 2-3 mm of fine salt. Cut a lime in half at the width and rub around half of the rim of a margarita glass. Cut a thin, crosswise slice from one of the lime halves for garnish. Holding glass upside down, dip wet half delicately into the salt. Shake Grand Marnier, tequila and lime juice with ice in a cocktail shaker. Strain into glass and apply lime garnish to the rim.

 

CAZADORES La Bandera

 

Ingredients:

1 oz Tequila Cazadores Reposado

1 oz Sangrita

2 oz Spicy Bloody Mary Mix

1/4 oz Orange Juice

1 oz Fresh Lime Juice

 

Method: 

Pour CAZADORES Reposado and lime juice into separate shot glasses. For Sangrita, add all ingredients into a cocktail shaker, shake and pour into a separate shot glass. Serve. 

 

CAZADORES Paloma

Ingredients:

2 oz Tequila Cazadores Blanco

1 oz Fresh Lime Juice

4 oz Grapefruit Soda

1 Pinch Salt

 

Method:

Add all ingredients into a salted highball glass filled with ice. Stir with a spoon. Garnish with a lime wedge. 

 

PATRÓN Perfect Margarita

Ingredients:

1.5 oz PATRÓN Silver

1 oz Citrónge Orange Liqueur

.75 oz Fresh lime juice

.25 oz Simple syrup

Lime wedge for garnish

Kosher salt (optional)

Method: 

Combine liquid ingredients in a cocktail shaker and shake vigorously with ice to chill. Strain onto fresh ice in a rocks glass and garnish with a lime wedge. Optionally, salt half the rim of the glass with kosher salt.

Spicy Margarita

Ingredients:

1.5 oz PATRÓN Silver infused with jalapeño*

.5 oz Flavor puree (blood orange, mango or fresh beet)

3 oz Lime juice

Salt rim

Lime wedge and sliced jalapeño for garnish

 

Method:

Combine all ingredients over ice in a shaker. Shake and strain into a salt rimmed double old fashioned glass.

*Patrón Silver infused with jalapeño: Add 2 whole jalapeños cut down the middle and deseeded into 1 bottle of Patrón Silver. Let rest for 12 hours.

Please drink responsibly.