On tonight's show Oisin Davis, of Great Irish Beverages, makes a Patron Margarita, entitled 'The Honeydew Margarita'. 

Oisin says, "In 1998, I was working as a doorman in a club in San Francisco. It was a crazy wee place called The Coco Club where there was a speakeasy policy after 2am. I had a wee slot to open from the inside and invite the punters in. Post work drinks, were always de rigeur. One particular night, one of the bartenders reefed out a really nice bottle of tequila she picked up when she was in Mexico and proceeded to pull a honeydew melon from the fridge. After she sliced the fruit up and cleaned it out, she muddled some good chunks of it in the shaker and mixed some lime, tequila and cointreau into it and shook the bad boy up. It tasted amazing. Until then, my only experience of cocktails was in dodgy student bars and two for 1 specials thrown out with no care on Sunday nights. But this cocktail had craft. An excellent tequila, fresh lime and melon and the sweet orange flavour of cointreau. She fine strained it and served it in an ice cold coupe glass. That was the one drink that made me rethink what could be achieved behind the bar. And it set off a rather intimate love affair of cocktails that has grown and blossomed ever since". 

HONEYDEW MARGARITA

INGREDIENTS:
50 ml of Patron Silver Tequila
15 ml of fresh lime juice
10 ml Cointreau
1 tablespoon of fresh honeydew melon

METHOD:
Chill a coupe or martini glass with some ice. Place the melon and lime juice into a shaker and muddle it for about ten seconds to break it down and mix with the lime. Then pour in the tequila and cointreau and throw in a scoop of ice. Seal the shaker and shake it hard for 30 seconds. Remove the ice from the glass and fine strain the cocktail. Sláinte!