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Tequila

Vicious Virgin No. 2

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A "white Mai Tai" Pago Pago variant with tequila, blue curaçao, grapefruit, and orgeat.

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Ingredients

  • fresh grapefruit juice (1.5 oz)
  • fresh lime juice (0.75 oz)
  • orgeat syrup (0.5 oz)
  • blue curaçao (0.25 oz)
  • light white rum (0.75 oz)
  • blanco tequila (0.75 oz)
  • lime wheel (1)

Instructions

  1. Add fresh grapefruit juice, fresh lime juice, orgeat syrup, blue curaçao, light white rum, and blanco tequila to a cocktail shaker with ice.
  2. Shake hard.
  3. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass (coupe).
  4. Garnish with a lime wheel.

Sources

  1. Berry, Beachbum Berry Remixed (2010), Vicious Virgin No. 2 entry, corrects the longstanding Trader Vic / 1940s misattribution and traces the tequila version to Pago Pago in Tucson, Arizona, in the 1960s; describes the "white Mai Tai" structural shape (curaçao + lime + orgeat) pivoted onto grapefruit + tequila. ↩
  2. "Tequila Tiki: Vicious Virgin No. 2." Tartines to Tikis. https://tartinestotikis.wordpress.com/2014/09/03/tequila-tiki/ (accessed 2026-05-03), published version of the Berry reconstruction; source for this file's measurement bill. ↩