Batanga

Batanga

  • 60 ml El Tequileno Blanco
  • the juice of half a lime
  • 120 ml Organics by Red Bull Simply Cola
  • flaked salt
  1. Salt rim the glass. Build and top to half way with the cola. 
  2. Top with ice.  Stir with a knife and leave in with a straw.

The classic tequila highball from La Capilla in Tequila town, Mexico. Yes, it’s a simple drink but you look under the hood and there is a lot going on here. The salt helps to draw flavour across the palate; you get a sweet hit from the cola, and the tequila — Don Javier at La Capilla uses El Tequileno, a mixto tequila — gives it that earthy, agave undertone. Add in a little lime; do as they do at La Capilla and use the Mexican elbow to squeeze the juice straight into the glass.