Winter & Holiday Tequila Cocktails Recipes Using 1800 Cristalino

One of PubClub.com’s favorite tequilas is 1800 Cristalino, so we’re always on the lookout for cocktail recipes using it in flavorful drinks.

Okay, we like it as a sipping tequila, too, but here are three recipes created specifically to be served around food during the holidays and wintertime, most notably for brunch, dinner and cocktail soirées.

Holiday Brunch Cocktail Recipe: 1800 Café Cristalino

Ingredients:

• 1 ½ oz. 1800 Cristalino
• 1 oz. espresso
• ½ oz. coffee liqueur
• 1 tsp. vanilla syrup

Directions: Combine all ingredients in a cocktail shaker with ice and shake vigorously. Strain into a coupe glass and garnish with 3 coffee beans and an orange twist.

Holiday Dinner Cocktail Recipe: 1800 Spiced Pear

Ingredients:

• 2 oz. 1800 Cristalino
• ¾ oz. pear nectar
• ½ oz. fresh lemon juice
• 1 oz. club soda

Directions: Combine tequila, pear nectar and lemon juice in a cocktail shaker with ice and shake thoroughly. Strain into a wine glass over fresh ice. Top with soda and stir to combine. Garnish with a pear slice and cinnamon.

Holiday Cocktail Mixer Recipe: 1800 Jalisco Mule

Ingredients:

• 2 oz. 1800 Cristalino
• ¾ oz. ginger syrup
• ¾ oz. lime
• 1 tsp. Allspice Dram
ª Splash of soda

Directions: Combine all ingredients except soda in a cocktail shaker with ice and shake vigorously. Strain into a rocks glass over fresh ice and garnish with candied ginger and a lime wheel.

1800 Cristalino is an ultra-premium clear Añejo Tequila finished in port wine casks. It is aged in French and American oak barrels, married together, then rested in port wine casks (something no other Cristalino does!). It is thenmeticulously filtered to crystal clear clarity while retaining the depth and complexity of Añejo along with the silky smoothness of a Claro. It is ABV 40% – 80 proof.

It is vailable at  ReserveBar or Drizly for $65.