Often served with salt on the rim of the glass, but it is optional.

Discerning tequila drinkers would balk if you mixed an Anejo into a margarita - because it's considered really good/premium and like a single malt whisky, you wouldn't want anything else mixed in there.

Tequila used could be a blanco, plata, reposado and even an anejo.

Grand margarita = Grand marnier is used instead of triple sec.

Tommy margarita is a margarita using agave syrup instead of triple sec = to bring out the agave flavour even more.

To make a Margarita Presidente (yes like the infamous Chili's one) just add some cognac.

Fruit Margarita - blend selected fruit with the basic margarita recipe.

A socialite Margaret Sames held a Christmas party in Acapulco, Mexico, in 1948, and created the first Margarita.

He added Cointreau and lime, and the unique salt rim that caught people's attention at the bar, then named his creation Margarita, the Spanish for Marjorie. Carlos 'Danny' Herrera created the cocktail either in 1947 or 1948 at his Rancho La Gloria bar in Rosarito, Mexico, for an actress called Marjorie King who drank only Tequila.Francisco 'Pancho' Morales, while working in a bar called Tommy's Place in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, was asked to make a 'Magnolia' on the 4th July 1942, but couldn't remember it so created this drink.Daniel (Danny) Negrete could have created the drink in 1936 when he was the manager of Garci Crespo Hotel in Puebla, Mexico for his girlfriend Margarita as a present.A Vernon Underwood, who had started distributing Cuervo Tequila in the 1930s may have went to Johnny Durlesser, head bartender of the Tail O' The Cock in LA, and asked him to create something using his spirit, then named it after his wife Margaret (Margarita).Could have been created in 1930 by Doña Bertha, owner of Bertha's Bar in Taxco, Mexico (unlikely as Mexicans don't typically drink margaritas).Like most cocktail histories, there are quite a number of people who have claimed to have invented it, and if you'd like to know, here they are:.The recipe called for an ounce (30ml) of tequila, a dash of triple sec and the juice of half a lime or lemon. The 1st official mention of Margarita in print in Dec 1953 was in the Esquire magazine with a quote 'She’s from Mexico, Señores, and she is lovely to look at, exciting and provocative'.In a British cocktail publication called Café Royal Cocktail Book published in 1937, the author mentions a drink called a Picador, which lists its ingredients as tequila, Cointreau and lime juice (the exact same recipe as a margarita!).It could simply be a twist on the Daisy, (a classic long drink from the 1870s made with a base spirit, lemon juice, sugar or liqueur) - as Margarita is the Spanish word for daisy.

The Margarita can be considered a Tequila Sour (Sour = base liquor, lemon or lime juice, and a sweetener), or a Tequila Sidecar (replacing cognac).

Classic margarita recipe esquire