The best serves are not complicated. They are considered.
When the liquid is right, you do not need to hide it behind ten ingredients or a technique that takes ten minutes to explain. You need a serve that makes sense, tastes clean, and holds up whether you are making it behind a bar at volume or at home for a few people you actually want to spend an evening with.
These are four of ours. One expression each. All of them built around the agave.
Black Cherry Margarita
The margarita is already the most ordered cocktail in the UK. That is not a problem. That is a platform.
Thiago Black Cherry takes the structure everyone already trusts and gives it something worth noticing. Deep dark fruit, a dry finish, the agave coming through clean underneath. Familiar enough to order without thinking. Different enough to ask what it was.
Ingredients:
∙ 50ml Thiago Black Cherry
∙ 20ml fresh lime juice
∙ 20ml triple sec
∙ Cubed ice
∙ Salt rim
Method:
Rim a coupe or rocks glass with salt. Shake Thiago Black Cherry, triple sec, and lime juice with ice. Strain and serve.
Espresso Martini:
The espresso martini is a classic for a reason. It is one of the few cocktails that works at the start of an evening and the end of one. Nobody needs convincing to order it.
Most espresso martinis are built on a vodka base. Clean, neutral, functional. Thiago Coffee brings something the vodka version cannot: roasted depth, a dark cacao undertone, and the backbone of 100% blue agave coming through the finish. The structure of the drink stays exactly as it should. What changes is the character underneath it.
Ingredients:
∙ 50ml Thiago Coffee
∙ 25ml coffee liqueur
∙ 50ml chilled espresso
∙ Cubed ice
∙ Three coffee beans to garnish
Method:
Shake Thiago Coffee, coffee liqueur, and espresso hard with ice until the shaker is cold. Strain into a chilled coupe. Garnish with three coffee beans.
Spicy Tamarindo Margarita
This is the one that makes people ask questions.
Tamarindo is not an unfamiliar flavour in Mexico. It is a staple. A market flavour, a street flavour, something that has been part of Mexican food culture long before it appeared on cocktail menus. Thiago Tamarindo Sour is built from that reference, not invented around it.
Pair it with jalapeño and lime and you get something that is genuinely layered. Tang, heat, citrus, and the earthy agave base underneath all of it. Complex without being difficult. Completely original without being strange.
In a bar, this is the serve people come back to order by name. At home, it is the one that makes guests think you know something they do not.
Ingredients:
∙ 50ml Thiago Tamarindo Sour
∙ 25ml fresh lime juice
∙ 2 to 3 fresh jalapeño slices
∙ Chilli-lime seasoning for the rim
∙ Cubed ice
Method:
Rim an old-fashioned glass with lime juice and chilli-lime seasoning, then fill with ice. Muddle jalapeño in a shaker. Add Thiago Tamarindo Sour and lime juice, shake hard with ice, and strain into the prepared glass.
Vanilla Paloma
The most approachable serve on this list. Also one of the most drinkable.
Pink grapefruit and lime are already a natural pairing. The vanilla expression from Thiago brings a warmth and roundness that softens the citrus without dulling it, making the whole drink feel more complete. Zero added sugar means nothing here is cloying. The agave comes through clean in every sip.
At home it is quick. At a bar it is easy to build at pace without losing anything. That combination matters more than it sounds.
Ingredients:
∙ 50ml Thiago Vanilla
∙ 50ml fresh pink grapefruit juice
∙ 25ml fresh lime juice
∙ Sparkling water
∙ Cubed ice
∙ Salt rim
Method:
Rim an old-fashioned glass with salt and fill with ice. Add Thiago Vanilla, grapefruit juice, and lime juice. Top with sparkling water and stir gently to combine.
On simplicity
These four serves exist because the liquid earns them. 100% blue agave reposado, rested in white oak, naturally flavoured, zero added sugar. When that is what is in the bottle, the serve does not need to compensate for anything.
Simple is not lazy. Simple is what happens when nothing needs to be hidden.
That is where Thiago starts. Every time.
These four serves exist because the liquid earns them. 100% blue agave reposado, rested in white oak, naturally flavoured, zero added sugar. When that is what is in the bottle, the serve does not need to compensate for anything.
Simple is not lazy. Simple is what happens when nothing needs to be hidden.
That is where Thiago starts. Every time.