Raspberry Picante Paloma Pitchers

Ingredients

• 3 ounces agave syrup 
• 12 ounces ruby grapefruit juice fresh red
• 1  zest of 1 grapefruit 
• 4 slices jalapeno thin
• 0.3 cup kosher salt 
• 10 ounces lemon-lime soda 
• 3 ounces juice of lime fresh
• 6 servings lime wedges for the glasses
• 12  raspberries fresh
• 12 ounces tequila blue (preferably 100 percent agave tequila blanco)

Equipment

• mortar and pestle

Directions

1. Make the cocktails: In a glass pitcher, muddle the raspberries and jalapeno, then fill halfway with ice.
2. Add the tequila, grapefruit juice, lime juice and agave. Take a second pitcher (the same size) and pour one into the other repeatedly to mix the drink together. Top it off with club soda or lemon-lime soda.
3. Make the grapefruit salt: Crush the salt and grapefruit zest together with a mortar and pestle, then spread on a plate. Run a lime wedge around the rim of each glass, then dip the glasses in the grapefruit salt. Fill with the cocktails.
4. Photograph by Kat Teutsch