Blanco Margarita

The benchmark. Three ingredients. No shortcuts.

2 oz Dano's Dangerous Blanco Tequila

3/4 oz Cointreau or Triple Sec

3/4 oz fresh lime juice

Combine all ingredients in a shaker with ice.

Shake hard until chilled.

Strain over fresh ice in a salt-rimmed rocks glass.

Rocks glass, salt rim, lime wheel

HECHO EN JALISCO, MEXICO -

Blanco

The agave undisguised.

The agave with nine months on it.

The agave with eighteen on it.

Lime peel. Orange peel. Both real.

The end of the meal, in a glass.

The basement, in a bottle.