Rose water paloma cocktail

If you love margaritas, you’ll love this refreshing, floral rose water paloma cocktail. A balanced cocktail with zesty pink grapefruit, fragrant rose syrup, a splash or rose water, sparkling water, and tequila of course. It pays homeage to the classic cocktail, but with a handful of botanical ingredients – you have a gorgeous garden inspired twist.

This Paloma cocktail recipe is a beautiful balance flavor between the distinctive oak flavor in tequila, fresh squeezed sour grapefruit juice, and sweet delicate floral flavors syrup. If you plan to make a delicious and unique tequila cocktail for cinco de mayo, you’re in dire need of a lesson in Palomas – and you must give this recipe a try! Don’t be surprised if you end up with a new favorite cocktail. And if love rose in your cocktails, you will love our selection of hand picked delicious rose water cocktails.

What is a paloma?

Paloma translates from Spanish to “dove”, which is very fitting for this beautiful drink. Traditionally Palomas contain tequilas and grapefruit. If you can find grapefruit sparkling water, like a traditional grapefruit soda it’s recommended in this recipe to keep it traditional. Fresca is also a great, easy to find choice.

Our spin on the traditional cocktail

Our recipe can not be considered traditional, as we used grapefruit juice, rose syrup + sparkling water instead of grapefruit soda. These are our variations of this wonderful and popular drink, which adds a refreshing take, and a perfect balance of sweet that make the citrusy flavors pop.

Ingredients

• Tequila
• Freshly squeezed grapefruit juice
• Rose water
• Rose simple syrup
• Sparkling water or sparkling grapefruit flavored water / soda
• Fresh ice

ingredients for rose simple syrup:

• Fresh organic rose petals or dried organic rose buds or petals – if whole flowers are inaccessible to you, use rose water. Instructions in recipe card below.
• Raw honey (optional – and any honey of choice will do) try rose infused honey for the most beautiful floral rose syrup!
• Water
• Sugar

Tools:

• Citrus juicer
• Cocktail shaker
• Highball glass

Step by step how to make it:

Step 1: Start by making your rose simple syrup and rose water if you’re making them from scratch.

Step 2: Squeeze your grapefruit juice into your mixer. Add your tequila, rose syrup and rose water.

Step 3: Shake and pour into a glass with ice. Leave room for sparkling water or grapefruit soda.

Step 4: Fill your glass with sparkling water or soda. Garnish and serve!

Pro tips:

• Make the rose syrup before you want to make this cocktail to give it a change to cool and thicken before using it in your cocktail.
• Use freshly squeezed grapefruit juice. It tastes so wonderful and refreshing in comparison to grapefruit concentrate juice from the bottle.

Recommended garnish:

I love a beautiful cocktail garnish. I like to garnish this gorgeous recipe with a slice of candied grapefruit, organic rose buds or a candied rose petal. 

More botanical cocktails to love:

• Pomegrante ginger whisky sour
• Jasmine greyhound
• Rose and rosé cocktail
• Lavender bees knees