Stone Fruit Sangarita
**This is a sponsored post in partnership with Exotico Tequila intended for a 21+ audience only.
I love cocktail hybrids, don’t you? Why have a margarita and then also sangria, when you can marry them together into one stunning drink? I give you: THE SANGARITA. And because it’s summer, we’re going to make it super tasty with all the pretty stone fruits. ALL OF THEM.
Seriously, all of them. I used nectarines, pluots, plums, cherries, and a few other random hybrids that I did not know existed. Aprium? Plumcot? SIGN ME UP. I love stone fruit. SO MUCH. Wait, I forgot peaches. Dang it.
You know what I didn’t forget? The Exotico Tequila Reposado. NEVER FORGET THAT. Ever.
So what exactly goes into a Sangarita? Tequila. Lots of tequila. With a little help from rosé and some orange liqueur. And as we established: much stone fruit.
So let’s dig into making this beautiful glass of sunshine, shall we?
STONE FRUIT SANGARITA
Makes four servings.
To make the Stone Fruit Sangria (the day before):
6 oz. rosé wine, the pinker the better, IMO
2 oz. orange liqueur
3 tbs. granulated sugar
4 small stone fruits such as nectarine, plum, pluot, etc. pitted, and sliced
6 cherries, pitted and sliced
Combine all ingredients in a jar, give it a good shake, and place in fridge overnight, shaking occasionally.
To make each of four margaritas:
1.5 oz. Exotico Tequila Reposado
1.5 oz. Stone Fruit Sangria mixture (strained, reserving the boozy fruit to add later)
.5 oz. fresh lime juice
several slices of the boozy sangria fruit (or fresh slices of fruit)
Garnish: a few fresh cherries + salt rim
Prep glass by running a lime wedge around it, and dipping glass in coarse salt. Fill glass with ice.
Add ice, tequila, sangria liquid, and lime juice to a shaker, and shake until chilled. Strain mixture into glass, drop in pieces of boozy fruit, and garnish with fresh cherries.
As usual, I’m just going to add a quick little note that you should enjoy Exotico Tequila and chickens responsibly. For instance, don’t let your poultry walk all over any fruit you’re going to put in a drink or in your mouth. Do it for a tongue-in-cheek photo shoot, sure. Just be sure that any fruit that gets manhandled by a chicken gets fed TO the chicken (de-pitted first, of course), and not to human people.
And in conclusion: Exotico Tequila. Put it in your Margarita, put it in your Sangria, put it in your Sangarita. It’s versatile like that.
**This is a sponsored post in partnership with Exotico Tequila intended for a 21+ audience only.