Tequila, orange juice, real grenadine sunk to the bottom.
Why you are pouring this tonight
The Tequila Sunrise is the brunch cocktail people pretend they are above and then order at every brunch they go to. Tequila, fresh orange juice, real grenadine sunk to the bottom of the glass so it bleeds up like the sun coming up over the headland at Byron at six-thirty in summer. The Eagles wrote a song about it in 1973 and now you cannot say its name without humming.
Real grenadine or do not bother. Real grenadine is pomegranate-and-sugar syrup; the bright red supermarket version is fruit cordial pretending to be something else. Liber and Co make a proper one, you can also make your own (boil pomegranate juice with sugar 1:1 for ten minutes). Fresh-squeezed orange juice, not from a carton. Pour the tequila and orange over ice, stir gently, then drizzle the grenadine slowly over the back of a barspoon so it sinks. Don’t stir again. Garnish with an orange wheel and a maraschino cherry. Pair with brunch, beach, the kind of weekend where dinner becomes optional.
What to pour it alongside
Brunch, Mexican.
Notes
Real grenadine (pomegranate-based) makes the drink. Anything else is sweet red sludge.
The recipe
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