Light up your New Year’s Eve night with the Cranberry Kiss Sparkling Paloma! This tequila cocktail is a delicious blend of Cenote Tequila Reposado, grapefruit juice, champagne, cranberry juice cocktail, and a few more ingredients to create the perfect bubbly sipper for the occasion! 

I partnered with Cenote Tequila to make the Cranberry Kiss Sparkling Paloma. Recipe and ideas are my own.

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The Cranberry Kiss Sparkling Paloma

Are you needing a light and bubbly cocktail to toast with for your New Year’s celebration? The Cranberry Kiss Sparkling Paloma is the answer! Made with refreshing ingredients like pink grapefruit juice, champagne, cranberry juice cocktail, and Cenote Tequila Reposado (just to name a few). This specialty paloma incorporates tart and fresh notes with a light and effervescent finish to create an exciting sipper to ring in the new year with. Find out what I used to mix up this fun, fresh, and festive libation and how you can recreate it. Cheers!

Choose Cenote Tequila For Your Cocktails

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Ingredients for the Cranberry Kiss Sparkling Paloma

• Cenote Tequila Reposado: Cenote Reposado is aged three months in American Oak Barrels, delivering a harmonious palette of vanilla, wood, spice, and vegetable. This spirit is a reposado so it boasts some earthiness and smokier notes. 
• Pink grapefruit juice: a splash of pink grapefruit juice adds a touch of tart notes to this cocktail with slightly sweet flavors. You can pick some up from your local grocery store. 
• Cranberry juice cocktail: the slightly tart and sweet notes balance perfectly with the reposado tequila. 
• Lime juice: fresh squeezed lime juice is best, but bottled lime juice will work too. 
• Agave: a squeeze of agave syrup will add some subtly sweet flavors. Honey or simple syrup can be an alternative for this ingredient. 
• Champagne: top this cocktail with a bubbly finish. Choose your favorite champagne (or brut) to add to the drink. 
• Sparkling water: in addition to the champagne, pour in your preferred sparkling water for some more bubbles.
• Sugared cranberries and rosemary, grapefruit peel: it’s optional but highly encouraged to garnish this paloma with sugared cranberries, rosemary, and a grapefruit peel.

How to Make the Cranberry Kiss Sparkling Paloma

Time to make this delicious cocktail. Start by adding Cenote Tequila Reposado, the pink grapefruit juice, cranberry juice, the lime juice, and agave syrup to a cocktail shaker with ice. Shake it until the outside of the cocktail tin is chilled. Then, evenly strain the mixture into 2 cocktail glasses. Divide the champagne and sparkling water into each glass. If desired, garnish with sugared cranberries, rosemary, and grapefruit peel. Enjoy!

More Tequila Cocktails

• Sparkling Paloma
• Apple Cider Margarita

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