Batanga

Glassware:

Serve in a Collins glass

Prepare:

1. Select and pre-chill a COLLINS GLASS.
2. RIM glass with salt (moisten outside edge with lime juice and dip into salt).

Method:

1. STIR salt with lime juice in base of glass to dissolve salt.
2. Add ice and other ingredients and briefly stir.

Garnish:

1. No additional garnish. (The preprepared rim is garnish enough.)

History:

Created in 1961 by the legendary Don Javier Delgado Corona, owner/bartender of La Capilla (The Chapel) in Tequila, Mexico. Don Javier famously ritualistically stirred this drink with the knife he used to cut the limes, something he did into his eighties.

The Batanga is a popular drink in Mexico, helped by being featured in an advertising campaign by El Tequileño, a tequila made close to Don Javier's bar.

Review:

Basically a Cuba Libre made with tequila in place of rum and an all-important pinch of salt.