**This is a sponsored post in partnership with Exotico Tequila intended for a 21+ audience only.

I love cocktail hybrids, don’t you? Why have a margarita and then also sangria, when you can marry them together into one stunning drink? I give you: THE SANGARITA. And because it’s summer, we’re going to make it super tasty with all the pretty stone fruits. ALL OF THEM.

Seriously, all of them. I used nectarines, pluots, plums, cherries, and a few other random hybrids that I did not know existed. Aprium? Plumcot? SIGN ME UP. I love stone fruit. SO MUCH. Wait, I forgot peaches. Dang it.

You know what I didn’t forget? The Exotico Tequila Reposado. NEVER FORGET THAT. Ever.

So what exactly goes into a Sangarita? Tequila. Lots of tequila. With a little help from rosé and some orange liqueur. And as we established: much stone fruit.

So let’s dig into making this beautiful glass of sunshine, shall we?

STONE FRUIT SANGARITA

Makes four servings.

To make the Stone Fruit Sangria (the day before):

• 6 oz. rosé wine, the pinker the better, IMO

• 2 oz. orange liqueur

• 3 tbs. granulated sugar

• 4 small stone fruits such as nectarine, plum, pluot, etc. pitted, and sliced

• 6 cherries, pitted and sliced

  • Combine all ingredients in a jar, give it a good shake, and place in fridge overnight, shaking occasionally.

To make each of four margaritas:

• 1.5 oz. Exotico Tequila Reposado

• 1.5 oz. Stone Fruit Sangria mixture (strained, reserving the boozy fruit to add later)

• .5 oz. fresh lime juice

• several slices of the boozy sangria fruit (or fresh slices of fruit)

• Garnish: a few fresh cherries + salt rim

  • Prep glass by running a lime wedge around it, and dipping glass in coarse salt. Fill glass with ice.

  • Add ice, tequila, sangria liquid, and lime juice to a shaker, and shake until chilled. Strain mixture into glass, drop in pieces of boozy fruit, and garnish with fresh cherries.

As usual, I’m just going to add a quick little note that you should enjoy Exotico Tequila and chickens responsibly. For instance, don’t let your poultry walk all over any fruit you’re going to put in a drink or in your mouth. Do it for a tongue-in-cheek photo shoot, sure. Just be sure that any fruit that gets manhandled by a chicken gets fed TO the chicken (de-pitted first, of course), and not to human people.

And in conclusion: Exotico Tequila. Put it in your Margarita, put it in your Sangria, put it in your Sangarita. It’s versatile like that.

**This is a sponsored post in partnership with Exotico Tequila intended for a 21+ audience only.