Ingredients
- 1½ ozreposado tequila
- 1½ ozmanzanilla sherry
- ¾ ozpear liqueur
- 🍋Lemon twist(garnish)
🔧 Tools
Instructions
- Add reposado tequila, manzanilla sherry, and pear liqueur to a mixing glass.
- Fill with ice and stir for 25 to 30 seconds until well chilled.
- Strain into a chilled coupe glass.
- Garnish with a lemon twist.
📜 History
La Perla was created in 2005 by Jacques Bezuidenhout at Tres Agaves restaurant in San Francisco. The drink went on to win the National Sherries of Spain cocktail competition, which brought it to widespread attention and helped cement manzanilla sherry as a versatile cocktail ingredient. The combination of reposado tequila's earthy, lightly wooded character with the sea-breeze salinity of manzanilla sherry and the delicate sweetness of pear liqueur was considered a revelation in bar circles, and La Perla remains a benchmark modern sherry cocktail more than two decades after its creation.
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