Now, says DeGroff, drier tequilas are the ones in vogue.
Put the ice, tequila, and dry vermouth into your shaker.
Into a cocktail shaker filled with ice, mix: 2 1/2 oz blanco tequila 1/2 oz dry vermouth Dash of Angostura bitters.
I preferred the Maria Sin Sangre, which mingles muddled cherry tomatoes with silver tequila and medium-dry sherry in a coupe glass.
For a while there, if you believed the rumors, the headlines and the desperate cries of some New York bartenders, you might have thought that the world's supply of tequila was about to dry up.
Cocktails - At the very least, your bar should have ingredients for a Martini (gin, vodka, dry vermouth, green olives), a Margarita (tequila, Cointreau, Grand marnier, limes, Margarita salt), a Daiquiri (Rum and sour mix), tonic water, and club soda.
It's a sipping tequila, or try it with vermouth (sweet and dry or all dry) plus bitters for a twist on the Rob Roy or Manhattan.
The result is a chewy, full-bodied silver tequila with a fruity finish and dry, almost tannic aftertaste.
Tequila, whiskey and other 80-proof (or higher) dry spirits form the base of a cocktail — what chicken, beef or fish are to the omnivore's dinner plate.
Blanco (or silver) tequila is almost as handy a pantry ingredient as dry sherry.
