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Tequila Sunrise

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Clean, pure blanco tequila with sweet grenadine and delicious, subtly sour orange juice makes one of the greatest of modern classic cocktails, a drink that has a surprising place in rock ‘n’ roll history.
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About this recipe

Nearly everyone has heard of the Tequila Sunrise cocktail – the name rolls off the tongue as much as the flavour flows over it. And it lives up to its name with a delightfully sunny appearance: after creating the drink pour grenadine in a circle over the top of the drink. This sinks to the bottom of the glass, creating a sunrise effect in grades of orange. There’s plenty of sun too in its 1970s West Coast origins. The cocktail was created by bartender Gene Sulit at the Arizona Biltmore Hotel in the 1930s, using tequila, crème de cassis, lime juice and soda water. However, young bartenders Bobby Lazoff and Billy Rice were working at the Trident bar in Sausalito in California in the early 1970s when they decided to make a version of their own. They kept the tequila – the Trident was one of the largest sellers of tequila-based drinks in the US – but replaced the sweet fruit of cassis, sourness of lime and length of soda with an item that covered all these bases. The ingredient was increasingly available from local orchards, and had grown in popularity through the 1960s: orange juice. The popularity of this new Tequila Sunrise was helped too by the decision of promoter Bill Graham to throw a private party in 1972 at the Trident for The Rolling Stones, who had just arrived for a major tour. Jose Cuervo put the recipe on the back of their bottles of tequila in 1973 and in the same year the Eagles recorded a song called ‘Tequila Sunrise’ for their Desperado album, sealing its popularity. Variations of Tequila Sunrise include a Tequila Sunset using dark rum instead of grenadine, a Florida Sunrise with both pineapple and orange juice, a Caribbean Sunrise with rum instead of tequila, a Vodka Sunrise using vodka instead of tequila and the non-alcoholic Red Sea Sunrise with lemonade in place of tequila.

Ingredients for

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50ml.
Don Julio® Blanco Tequila
110ml.
Orange Juice
10ml.
Cranberry Juice
1wedge(s)
Orange
➤ 2 units of alcohol per serve

Equipment

1 x
Tall glass
1 x
Jigger
1 x
Chopping Board
1 x
Ice
1 x
Knife

How to make

Fill a glass with ice.

Fill a tall glass with ice cubes.
Pour Don Julio Blanco Tequila, orange juice and cranberry juice into the glass.

Using a jigger, measure 50ml Don Julio Blanco Tequila, 110ml orange juice and 10ml cranberry juice into the glass.
Garnish with an orange wedge.

Cut a wedge of orange with a sharp knife on a cutting board and place on top of the drink to garnish your Tequila Sunrise.

Grab a bite

Get some grub in before or while you’re drinking – it slows alcohol absorption.
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Don Julio® Blanco Tequila

Using the finest agave and a time-honoured distillation, Don Julio Blanco is clear, clean tequila with hints of citrus that makes it the ideal base for a range of great cocktails.

Tequila Sunrise

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How to make

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Don Julio® Blanco Tequila

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