Agave Cocktails: Tequila
El Diablo Cocktail
El Diablo Cocktail Ingredients
1.5 oz. El Jimador Tequila Reposado
0.5 oz. Giffard Cassis Noir de Bourgogne
0.75 oz. Fresh lime juice
0.75 oz. Ginger syrup
Soda
Garnish
Lime wedge
El Diablo Cocktail Preparation
Combine all ingredients in a shaker and add ice. Shake hard. Fine strain into a Collins glass, top with soda, and add ice. Garnish with a lime wedge.
El Diablo Cocktail Story
Trader Vic, of the successful tiki-themed restaurant empire, opened a lesser known Mexican restaurant called Señor Pico’s, where the El Diablo was allegedly born as the Mexican El Diablo. The recipe appears in Trader Vic’s Book of Food and Drink, published in 1946, predating other ginger-and-lime cocktails like the Moscow Mule or Suffering Bastard. Modern interpretations place this cocktail in a highball, in the vein of a Bourbon Buck, where a concentrated ginger syrup teases out the savory, more assertive side of tequila.