World Tequila Day 2025: Elevate your home bar game with 5 not-to-be-missed Tequila recipes

World Tequila Day 2025: Try these bold, refreshing tequila-based drinks that are perfect for summer celebrations

Raise a toast to World Tequila Day 2025 with bold, refreshing tequila-based drinks that are perfect for summer celebrations. Whether you love a zesty margarita, a fruity twist, or a spicy surprise, these easy tequila cocktail recipes are sure to impress your guests and elevate your home bar game. From timeless classics to creative new blends, we’ve rounded up five must-try tequila recipes that balance flavour and flair. Get ready to shake, stir, and sip your way through this spirited celebration with drinks that bring the heat — and the chill — to your glass.

1. Harmonizar

World Tequila Day 2025: Harmonizar

By Saurabh Das, Bar Manager at Ocho, Mumbai

• In a mixing tin, add coconut oil washed tequila reposado, green juice shrub and Lillet Blanc.
• Throw the drink 3-4 times on ice, which will give the drink a silky and airy texture. With a proper amount of dilution.
• Add 3-4 cubes of ice in the glass and serve. Place the garnish on top of the rim.

Garnish: Green juice leather

Tip: Have a bite of the leather & then sip the drink.

World Tequila Day 2025: Sizzling Java

2. Sizzling Java

By Aditya Singh, Bartender, Westin Sohna Resort & Spa

Garnish: Dehydrated Orange and Mint leaf

World Tequila Day 2025: Rainspell

3. Rainspell

By Ankit Tiwari, Beverage Manager, AnnaMaya at Andaz Delhi, By Hyatt

• Brew chamomile tea and let it cool before use. Prepare thyme and peppermint syrup.
• Infuse fresh thyme and peppermint leaves in simple syrup, cool and strain to make syrup.
• Lightly crush the cardamom pods to release aroma.
• Then add ingredients into a shaker and add ice and shake vigorously for 10–12 seconds to chill and mix well.
• Then double strain into a chilled coupe glass to remove the cardamom particles and any ice shards.

World Tequila Day 2025: Polly

4. Polly

By Mohit Badh, Bar Manager at Call Me Ten, Delhi

Glass: Highball

Garnish: Celery salt rim and grapefruit wedge

World Tequila Day 2025: Goan Pa'Lante

5. Goan Pa'Lante

By Nikit Kalla, Beverage Manager, Arts Room, Eldeco Centre, New Delhi

• Place a few fresh curry leaves into the base of a Boston shaker. Pour in the measured amount of tequila along with a few drops of saline solution.
• Gently muddle the mixture to release the aromatic oils from the curry leaves and infuse the tequila with their unique, savory essence.
• Fill the shaker with a generous amount of ice cubes to chill the mixture.
• Pour in a measured amount of soda water, which adds a light sparkle and lifts the herbal notes.
• Secure the shaker and shake vigorously for about 10–12 seconds to combine the ingredients and fully chill the drink.
• Strain the cocktail into a chilled highball glass filled with fresh ice.

Tip: Avoid over-muddling to prevent bitterness.