Tart Cherry Lima Highball
Two ingredients over ice, topped with Lima. A weeknight drink with nothing to prove.
Tart cherry juice is dense, dark, and almost too much on its own. It wants acid and dilution, and a glass of ice and citrus-forward mineral water gives it both without any additional work.
Three minutes, no shaker, no muddling, no syrup to make. This is the build for the end of a long day, and its virtue is that you will actually make it.
The Recipe
Makes 1 · 3 minutes
Ingredients
- Ice cubes
- 2 oz tart cherry juice
- 0.5 oz agave nectar
- 5 oz Tehuacan Brillante Lima
- 1 fresh lime wheel
- 1 fresh sweet cherry
Method
- Fill a plain Collins or highball glass to the top with ice cubes.
- Pour the tart cherry juice and agave nectar directly over the ice.
- Stir gently with a bar spoon to mix the juice and syrup.
- Top with Tehuacan Brillante Lima, letting the bubbles mix the drink further.
- Garnish with a fresh lime wheel and a sweet cherry dropped into the glass.
Notes
Tart cherry, not sweet cherry juice. The label matters — sweetened cherry drink turns this cloying, and you already have agave in the glass for balance.
Stir before the top-up, not after. Cherry juice is heavy and will sit at the bottom of the glass if you leave the mixing to the bubbles.
Tehuacán Brillante is sparkling mineral water from the Tehuacán Valley in Puebla, naturally mineralized on a journey of roughly eight years through volcanic rock. Family run since 1983, Mexican owned, bottled in 12 fl oz glass. Find us at @drinktehuacan.
