UPDATE: We recently featured this cocktail at our live-audience event at Gateway Community College. You can listen to that fun show, here. (We declared it Cinco de Mayo Month!)
We’ve mixed all manner of spirit, herbs, and fruit to prosecco and cava to make sparkling cocktails, but Alex Province’s sparkling margarita is a delicious first for us. Festive and fun, it’s a most unexpected cocktail for Christmas, New Year’s Eve—or even a taco party. Think: Day of the Dead or your Super Bowl party, too.
The drink made Mark Raymond want to sing Feliz Navidad, but truth be told, when you raise this cocktail for a toast, it’s feliz everything and anything. The drink is a celebration onto itself, so pull it out for any holiday or gathering.
• ON-DEMAND: Listen to Faith and the gang discuss more celebratory 3-ingredient cocktails and sparkling wine cocktails. •
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Start off with 1/2 shot of the orange liqueur in this surprising cocktail, and taste the drink. Add up to 1/2 shot more if you think it needs it. You can use any orange liqueur you like; we used Grand Marnier.
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- 1/2 lime (zest for salt garnish, juice for cocktail)
- salt for garnishing the glass
- 1/2 shot tequila
- 1/2 shot orange liqueur Grand Marnier, Cointreau, or Triple Sec
- sparkling wine
- Zest the lime and mix zest into salt. Rub rim of champagne flute with lime wedge. Dip rim in salt to coat it lightly.
- Add 1/2 shot of tequila and 1/2 shot of orange liqueur to flute, along with a squeeze of fresh lime juice. Top off with prosecco or your favorite dry sparkling wine.
