Cinco de Mayo Cocktail Recipes By Milagro Brand Ambassador Jaime Salas

Milagro Ancho Paloma
Ingredients:

• 1 ½ parts Milagro Reposado
• ½ part Ancho Reyes
• ½ part Fresh Lime Juice
• 3 parts Grapefruit Soda

Directions:

1. Using a lime wedge, wet the rim of the glass and salt half of the rim.
2. Add ice, Ancho Reyes, and grapefruit soda.
3. Squeeze a wedge of lime and discard.
4. Garnish with a thin grapefruit wheel.

Conquistador
Ingredients:

• 1 ½ parts Milagro Reposado
• ½ part Ancho Reyes
• ½ part Crème de Cacao
• ½ part Manzanilla Sherry
• 1 dash Angostura Orange Bitters

Directions:

1. Chill coupe glass with ice and water and set aside.
2. Combine all ingredients in a mixing glass.
3. Add ice and stir until well chilled and diluted.
4. Discard chilling ice from the coupe.
5. Strain ingredients into chilled coupe.
6. Using a vegetable peeler, remove a long piece of orange peel.
7. Express the oil over the cocktail, rub the peel around the rim of the glass, and place atop the cocktail

Ancho Margarita
Ingredients:

• 1 ½ parts Milagro Silver Tequila
• ¾ parts Ancho Reyes
• 1 part Fresh Lime Juice
• ½ part Agave Nectar

Directions:

1. Using a lime wedge, wet the rim of an old fashioned glass, salt it, and set aside.
2. Combine all ingredients in a cocktail shaker.
3. Add ice, shake, and double strain over fresh ice into the glass.
4. Garnish with a lime wedge.

Ancho Old Fashioned
Ingredients:

• 1 part Milagro Silver Tequila
• 1 part Ancho Reyes
• ¼ part Rich Simple Syrup
• 3 dashes Angostura Bitters
• 2 Angostura Orange Bitters
• 1 hand cut ice cube

Directions:

1. Combine all ingredients in a mixing beaker.
2. Add regular ice and stir for 30 seconds.
3. Strain into a double old fashioned glass over large hand cut ice block.
4. Using a vegetable peeler, remove long orange and lemon peels.
5. Express each over the top of the cocktail and rub them together around the rim of the glass.
6. Roll peels together into a rosette and place atop the cocktail.

**All drinks created by Milagro Brand Ambassador Jaime Salas

About Milagro Tequila
Founded in 1997 by Mexico City natives Daniel Schneeweiss and Moises Guindi, Milagro Tequila has quickly escalated into one of the world’s leading tequila brands with one foot in tradition and the other in the future, combining the finest old-world techniques and traditions and applying modern technologies and processes to produce a superior product. This award-winning tequila brand from William Grant & Sons captures the spirit of modern day Mexico, from its entrepreneurial founders and artisanal bottles to the ingredients and distillation process. The Milagro Tequila range consists of six expressions, with Silver, Reposado and Añejo expressions of the Core and Select Barrel Reserve ranges respectively. All Milagro expressions are distilled in both pot and column stills for the perfect balance of smoothness and agave flavor from 100% estate-grown blue agave. Milagro Silver is crisp and clear, and is renowned for its smoothness, mixability and agave-forward taste, making it perfect in the signature Freshest Margarita, made with agave nectar and fresh lime juice. All Milagro Tequilas have an ABV of 40% and retail between $24.99 and $43.99 for the Core range and $52.99 and $98.99 for the Select Barrel Reserve Range. For more information, visit www.milagrotequila.com.