Glassware: Chilled Cocktail Glass
Ingredients:
1 oz. Libelula Tequila
.5 oz Agave Nectar
.5 oz. Lemon Juice
5 Mint Leaves
2 oz. Marques de Caceres Cava Brut
Garnish: Lemon Twist
Directions: Combine ingredients (except for sparkling) into a cocktail shaker with ice. Shake vigorously until properly chilled then strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Top with sparkling, garnish, serve, and enjoy!
To enjoy and embrace luxury, money is required. Yet, cash might not be in abundance. The simplest option, grow it on a tree. A backyard Money Tree. While that may not exist in the real world, it doesn’t mean you can’t have a drink with styles and profiles that is deliciously easy and inexpensive to make.
This drink starts out with the most famous flavors in the entire world, tequila, citrus, and sweet. If that sounds familiar, yes – you got it – it’s the Margarita. Add some sparkling. Nothing shines like bubbles and connotates wealth! The familiar mixture of bright citrus and light sweetness paired with overlying tones of rich earth and floral flavorings, tastes like a stay at the Waldorf Astoria. The signature spark of sparkling wine cranks this from a stay at the Waldorf to a stay in a luxury Mediterranean villa. We may wish we had a money tree growing in our backyard, but you can have the next best thing with a luxury cocktail. Just don’t have too many, or you really will need a money tree to recover!
(For true luxury switch out Libelula for Don Julio 1942 and Marques de Caceres for Veuve Clicquot).
