Tart, hot, sour and sweet … this Dirty Ancho Blood Orange Margarita is a fun new spin on the traditional drink!

Ingredients
2oz Fortaleza Blanco Tequila
1.5oz Round Pond Blood Orange Syrup
.5oz Cointreu
.5oz Luxardo Cherry
.5oz fresh lime juice
.5oz fresh lemon juice
3 dashes of Tapatio hot sauce
Ice
thyme garnish
Salt or Chile lime salt rim

First, take highball glass/margarita glass coat the rim with a lime wedge then onto plate with salt.  Coat the rim lightly!  Then take shaker pint and fill with tequila, Cointreau, Luxardo, lemon & lime juice, Round Pond Blood Orange Syrup and Tapatio hot sauce with .5 oz of freshly-squeezed lime juice.  Fill shaker pint with ice and shake.

Pour contents of shaker pint into salted rim glass and garnish with a sprig of thyme or blood orange slices.  Enjoy!

-Recipe by Brandon Macer of Napa Ca.