Paloma Cocktail

Makes 1

This refreshing cocktail is a Mexican classic. The alcohol base is tequila (use a good quality one please!) and it is flavoured with grapefruit. You could also add a squeeze of lime if you fancy it. Rimming the glass with salt is a fun addition. If you do this, before filling the glass with ice, either run a cut lime around the rim of the glass or dip in sugar syrup, then dip in a plate of salt. 

Ingredients:

45ml/ 1 1/2 shots tequila

1/2 ruby grapefuit, juiced

15ml/ 1/2 shot simple sugar syrup (or agave)

75ml/ 2 1/2 shots Soda water

Optional: squeeze of lime

Garnish: salt rimmed glass and a slice of grapefruit or lime 

Fill a glass with ice (already rimmed with salt if using). In a cocktail shaker filled with ice, shake the tequila, grapefruit and sugar syrup (and lime if using) together until very cold. Pour into the iced glass and top up with the soda water and garnish with a slice of grapefruit.