
Amy Racine, beverage director at JF Restaurants, breaks down the recipe for a popular rosé cocktail called a "Spicy Maria."


<div class="block"> Amy Racine, beverage director at JF Restaurants, breaks down the recipe for a popular rosé cocktail called a &quot;Spicy Maria.&quot; </div>

Wake Up With Cheddar

Rosé Cocktail Recipe: How to Make a 'Spicy Maria' 

Welcome to Cheddar News. I'm do from Chatter Studios in New York City. Yeah. Good morning everyone. I'm Baker. Welcome back to wake up with Chatter and you know Saturday is national roses for us at my house every day. So to celebrate uh and elevate our rose drinking experience to show us how to make some mouthwatering cocktails. We're joined in studio by Amy Racine beverage director over at J F restaurants. Amy. Good to have you here. So what is about rose and how does it differ from maybe white and red wine that makes us so in love with it. It's made from red grapes and you just use a little bit of the contact from the skin to tint it, that pink color, so little bit fuller than white wine but still fresh tart fruit flavors. Great for the summer. Yeah. So why do you think rose is so closely associated with summertime? It's, it's refreshing. There usually is a little bit of like a saline quality. What you like in margaritas, margaritas in the summer um kind of the same thing. So really fresh light. If you're sitting under the summer sun, it's delicious. All Right. So let's start with the cocktails. Start with the first one that you've brought us and teach us how to make it really quickly. So, the first one we're gonna make is a very easy take on a spicy margarita with a little rose. Me too. Me too. So I have all of our classic uh margarita ingredients in here. Uh tequila quan lime juice and went to the farmers' market this morning and picked out some of these um fresh tomatoes in there. Depends how spicy you like it. I love it. I love it too. OK, I'll put another one and we're just gonna all these a little bit to break the tomatoes and get a little bit of that spice out of the jalapeno. Um Something else that makes this different is we're using rose uh rose in here. Oh Rose in a margarita. That's interesting. Yeah. So it just um like half the and a little bit more rose, nice and light and we're just going to shake this to make it a little. And what is it about? Rose in a margarita that maybe add, gives it that added time. This one in particular is from south of France. So you have these ocean winds that are being against the vines all day. So it's kind of like the salt that's around the rim. Thought about that, that add a little crispness that you need and she already salted the for us is this special salt that you've got on your hand. I use pink salt. It's just an easy way to keep it to our extra spicy farmers market Margarita, which is so good. And by the way, there's a little bit of a Christmas to that with the rose, which is that added little punch at the salty flavor. I just do a half rim of salt so your guests can do half if they want. This might be my favorite, but I know we have a second option that you brought. Yeah, we only have about a minute left. Show us this one. So this is a very easy summer spritz with a, we also have uh rose champagne, just mix that a little vodka, pour your crushed ice in and then over here this is a summer shandy or take on a Shandy rose rose. Um Some of all rose cider, you can have rose apples these days and a little con con the most important thing. I love it. And there's by the way, the recipe right there and this one really good and the garnish obviously with a a lemon on this one. What rose drinks are the most popular would you say this year? Um Well, just rose on its own south of France for sure. Um But spritzes are very popular. You can please anybody with a spritz. So I think that's a great go to if you're having a summer barbecue. I love all of summer is here guys. Our thanks to Amy Racine beverage director over at J F restaurants for all the delicious drinks and cheers to that.