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Paloma (Simple)

Long drinks and highballs · Summer

4.2 107 ratings

Ingredients

1 2/3 oz Blanco tequila
1/4 oz Lime juice
4 oz Pink grapefruit soda

How to make

Serve in a collins glass

Prepare

  1. 1 Select and pre-chill a COLLINS GLASS.
  2. 2 Optionally, RIM glass with salt (moisten outside edge with lime or orange juice and dip into salt).
  3. 3 Prepare garnish of pink (or red) grapefruit wedge.

Method

  1. 4 POUR ingredients into ice-filled glass and briefly stir.

Garnish

  1. 5 Garnish with grapefruit wedge.

Flavour profile

8.9% alc./vol. · 1.1 standard drinks · 168 calories

History

A long, fruity, and refreshing drink.

Paloma means 'dove' in Spanish. This well-known cocktail in Mexico is rumoured to have been created by Don Javier Delgado Corona, owner and bartender of La Capilla (The Chapel) in Tequila, Mexico. Don Javier notably stirred his drinks with a large knife.