Celebrating Cinco de Mayo with Partida Tequila Safe at Home

Celebrating Cinco de Mayo safe at home this year is new for everyone. The art of bartending is all you this year. Put on your sombrero and Zoom with your friends and family. Here at Luxe Beat Magazine we’re celebrating with our friends at Partida Tequila! They’ve been kind enough to share their favorite Cinco de Mayo cocktails with us. We heard from Sofia Partida, Partida Tequila’s National Brand Ambassador on how she’ll be celebrating Cinco de Mayo this year.

“Cinco de Mayo is the biggest Tequila holiday of the year and while this year will be much less social I believe it calls for an even bigger reason to honor our Mexican heritage. I am organizing a FaceTime “Cinco Salud” with my sisters and friends.  On the menu are two of my favorite appetizers and Tequila pairings. Shrimp Aqua Chiles with Partida Blanco Neat and Chicken Mini Tostadas with a Ponche Caballero cocktail. We will play Loteria, watch a nostalgic movie like Nacho Libre or Water for Chocolate and enjoy Partida Tequila.” – Sofia Partida

The Partida’s are one of 70,000 families in Amatitán, Mexico and whose livelihood is dependent upon tequila. Raise a glass to the Tequila families everywhere!

The Partida brands are available on Drizly and great for shaking up in your favorite cocktails or sipping neat, learn more below about Tequila Bribón, Tequila Partida, and Gracias a Dios Mezcal.

 

Ponche Caballero

Ingredients:

2 oz. Partida Reposado

1.5 oz. Jumex Tamarind Nectar

1.5 oz. pineapple juice

.5 oz. agave nectar

.5 oz. fresh lime juice

2 dashes angostura bitters

 

Combine all ingredients and shake. Strain into a rocks glass over ice. Garnish with a fresh pineapple wedge and pineapple leaves.

Tequila Partida Reposado (SRP $44.99): Earning a 97-point score and Chairman’s Trophy Award for great value and taste from the Ultimate Spirits Challenge in 2019, Partida Reposado is smooth and rich, with a signature touch of sweetness. On the nose, there are aromas of cooked agave, along with vanilla, and a touch of citrus peel and almond. On the palate, Partida is smooth and silky, with hints of butterscotch, apricot, and roasted nuts. The finish is long, sweet, with lingering vanilla and minerality. Only using fully matured 100% blue agave harvested by hand, the Reposado’s farm-to-glass approach comes through in its nuanced flavor and a perfect touch of smokiness. Partida controls its entire production process, from exclusively using their own agaves, through production and bottling. This is a highland tequila, whose piñas are grown on a single estate in the rich volcanic soil around Amatitán, and are harvested at between seven and ten years of age. The reposado is aged for six months in ex-Tennessee whiskey barrels. Partida Reposado is a Tequila you can pair with dinner, enjoy as a night cap, or make a seasonal cocktail.

Bribón Margarita  

Ingredients:

2 oz.Tequila Bribón Blanco

1 oz. agave nectar

1 oz freshly squeezed lime juice

 

Build all ingredients over ice in a shaker. Shake vigorously. Pour over fresh ice and garnish with a slice of lime.

Bribón Tequila Blanco (SRP: $24.99): Rich in agave and savory tequila, this bottle captures the essence of Bribón; a person who sets his or her own rules, someone who always embraces life no matter how wild it gets. Tequila Bribon is produced by one of the top three tequila families in Mexico, the Don-Roberto’s. They have been making high-quality tequila since 1924. Tequila Bribon is the culmination of three generations of experience working together to create a tequila that will be enjoyed by connoisseurs and novices alike.Tequila Bribon uses only fully matured 7-10-year-old agaves harvested by hand. Once harvested they are taken to the distillery where they are cooked for 18 hours at 100C to convert the starch to sugars. The cooked agaves are shredded and the juice (miel) is fermented in tanks at a consistent 32C utilizing a proprietary strain of yeast developed by Don Roberto. After fermentation, the product is double-distilled utilizing a process that combines pot-still distillate with column distillation.The end result is a tequila that is complex and sophisticated while being extremely approachable and easy to drink. It also makes a great margarita.

Gracias Mezcal Mule

Ingredients:

2 oz. Gracias a Dios Mezcal Espadín

1 oz. lemon juice

¾ oz. agave syrup

¾ oz. ginger juice

 

Top off with ginger beer. Stir and serve ingredients.

Gracias a Dios Tepextate (SRP: $75.99)  Double-distilled wild agave cultivated 20-25 years in Zoquitlán, Oaxaca. Fresh herbaceous notes followed by carnation and crystallized lemon. Bright acidity intertwines with a bouquet of mineral aromas – chalk and calcareous rock – finishing with enjoyable cooked herbs, pink grapefruit and cinnamon.

 

Please drink responsibly!