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East meets west in Thai Prime‘s kickin’ cocktail featuring Junmai-style sake distilled to ice-cold purity, splashed with tequila for an extra bite. Mix in a bit of lime juice and triple sec for a margarita as worthy of sunrise as it is sunset.
Recipe
1 oz. Patrón Silver
1 oz. Tanrei Junmai sake ½ oz. lime juice
½ oz. triple sec
2 oz. sour mix
Procedure
Salt the rim of your glass.
Pour over ice and stir slowly.
In sake terminology, Junmai is pure, uncut rice wine, with the majority of the grains polished away. The threshold for sake purity used among experts, known as the “Junmai line,” refers to the percentage of rice grains remaining after polishing.
Ingredients
Murai Family Tanrei
Junmai Sake
Patrón Silver Tequila
Cointreau
Rose’s Lime Juice