July 5-Tommy’s Margarita

Widely seen as the “Perfect Margarita” by my family, the Tommy’s Margarita is what you get if you replaced the orange liqueur in a margarita with more agave goodness. You are basically taking a Daisy style cocktail here and un-daisying it. Basically I’m saying that the creator (Julio Bermejo) put syrup in a cocktail that was sweetened purely by liqueurs. The cool thing about this cocktail is that it has quickly become so popular that most people think of this version as the classic. This could be because restaurants have adapted this version for their house margaritas.

As previously stated this cocktail was created by Julio Bermejo of Tommy’s in San Francisco around 1987. And also as previously stated this has become the standard for margaritas for many a restaurant. But this is a little sad to me since Bermejo gets barely any credit for the scale of work he has done for these restaurants that practically outright plagiarise accidentally with out knowing. But thus is life I guess.

Full judging here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VIk-ES2kAHm5xOrHySq9DcwdiT1cSQD5g2ACFcngxNs/edit?tab=t.0