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" It&amp;#039;s either good fortune or terrible timing, depending on how you look at these things, that Cinco de Mayo and the Kentucky Derby fall on the same day this year. Either way, it&amp;#039;s a fantastic excuse to drink tequila, and in ways you may not otherwise have. The agave spirit isn&amp;#039;t the first thing you&amp;#039;d think to put in a punch. But why not? It works as well as anything else, and to prove it, we asked our own David Wondrich, avowed punch acolyte, to devise a recipe good for a group. The slightly bitter grapefruit will leave guests wanting more; the melting ice will slow the onset of their broken-Spanish enthusiasms. For the Louisville half of your party: tequila julep. Yes, this also works much better than imagined. Both recipes are below. Just make sure to keep the dark stuff with the mint, the light stuff with the grapefruit, and the margarita mix under the table. And be careful, even off the track. The Tequila Punch Peel one grapefruit (preferably white, not Ruby Red) grapefruit with a vegetable peeler in as close to a single large spiral as you can get. Muddle the peel in a gallon bowl with 3/4 cup sugar and let sit for 3 to 4 hours, muddling occasionally (this will extract the fragrant grapefruit oil). Then add 3/4 cup fresh-squeezed lime juice and stir until sugar has dissolved. Stir in one bottle 100-percent-agave blanco tequila (such as Milagro Silver). Add a lot of ice and 1-liter chilled seltzer. Garnish with thin jalapeno rings. If you&amp;#039;re using Ruby Red grapefruit juice, you can throw in 1/2 cup of that as well. The Tequila Julep Put 2 barspoons superfine sugar in the bottom of a tall glass. Add 1/2 oz water and stir to dissolve sugar. Add 5-6 mint leaves and press lightly with a muddler. Wrap a tray&amp;#039;s worth of ice cubes in a clean dish towel and smash them to bits with a mallet, skillet, rolling pin, or whatever. Pack the glass with the fine ice. Pour in 2 1/2 to 3 oz good, 100-percent-agave anejo tequila (such as Herradura Anejo). Stir and add more ice (the level will have sunk). (Optional: float 1/2 oz old, rich bourbon on top.) Add 3-4 sprigs of mint and a straw. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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