Directions
The Palomino cocktail is a glowing twist of the legendary Paloma, the Mexican national drink made with tequila, lime juice, and grapefruit soda. Today we want to give an Italian touch to the Paloma and transform it into a cocktail with more Italian, Mediterranean, and aromatic flavors.
We do not want to belittle the Paloma. On the contrary, we want to make a variant precisely because it is an excellent cocktail with a unique flavor endowed with addictive drinkability.
Let’s see the ingredients of the Palomino cocktail: grappa instead of tequila, pink grapefruit juice, soda, limoncello, syrup, cucumber, rosemary, and sage.
It is nothing complex. It is a reasonably light aperitif cocktail in terms of alcohol content, perfect for quenching your thirst in summer.
The flavor is sharp and plays on the green, aromatic, and very fresh flavors that mix in the warm balsamic embrace of grappa. As grappa, use a young distillate, possibly not from a fragrant, fruity, and floral vine, yes, but nothing too intense or markedly smoky.
Ingredients and doses to make the Palomino cocktail
- 4 cl of Grappa
- 0.5 cl of limoncello
- 1.5 cl of sugar syrup
- 4 cl of pink grapefruit juice
- 4 slices of cucumber
- 2 sage leaves
- 1 sprig of rosemary
- a pinch of salt
- soda
How to make the Palomino cocktail
Squeeze the grapefruit, strain the juice, and put it in a shaker.
Add the cucumber slices and mash well with the pestle.
After a couple of minutes, add the salt, sage, and a few leaves of rosemary, gently caress with the pestle, then add the grappa, syrup, and limoncello, fill with ice, shake quickly and pour into a glass full of ice, filtering with strainer and a fine sieve.
Decorate with a sprig of rosemary, add a splash of soda and serve the new summer cocktail.
Other great cocktails to try as an aperitif
Negroni, Mojito, Moscow Mule, Gin & Tonic, Dark and Stormy, Daiquiri, Margarita, Spritz, Hugo, Old Fashioned, Manhattan.
