Chimayó Cocktail

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Chimayó Cocktail
Type: Mixed drink
Primary alcohol by volume:
Served: "On the rocks"; poured over ice
Standard garnish: slice of unpeeled apple
Standard drinkware:
Highball glass
Commonly used ingredients:
Preparation: Pour the tequila and unfiltered apple cider into glass over ice. Add the lemon juice and creme de cassis and stir. Garnish and serve.

Created by Arturo Jaramillo, owner of the Rancho de Chimayó restaurant in Chimayó, New Mexico in 1965, the Chimayó Cocktail is a tequila and apple cider based drink. Legend has it that Jaramillo was looking for use for the apples that are plentiful in the Chimayó valley when he stumbled onto what would soon become the signature drink of his restaurant.

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The Chimayó Cocktail is created by mixing 1 1/2 oz tequila with 1 oz unfiltered apple cider, 1/4 oz fresh lemon juice and 1/4 oz creme de cassis over ice. According to Eric Felten author of How’s Your Drink? Cocktails, Culture, and the Art of Drinking the touch of casis...gives the drink a pleasant, pale purplish hue and the sweetness needed to balance the tart lemon taste.

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