Elevate Your Summer Cocktail Hour With Cointreau & Dan Levy

Cointreau and Dan Levy Give Margarita Drinkers Everywhere Exclusive Hosting Tips + Recipes

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Cointreau, the essential ingredient at the heart of more than 500 classic cocktails including The Original Margarita, teamed up with Dan Levy, award-winning writer, actor, director, and producer, to elevate summer cocktail hour with delicious Margarita recipes and entertaining tips. Levy and Cointreau give you everything you need to host your next gathering, whether it be an elevated brunch with friends or al fresco cocktail hour.

Levy and notable chefs Nyesha Arrington and Sohla El-Waylly will show viewers how they prepare to host fun and memorable at-home celebrations with Cointreau and their favorite variations of Margaritas through a three-part content series appearing on Entertainment Weekly and Food & Wine channels. In each episode, Levy will elevate cocktail hour one Margarita recipe at a time while his culinary partner shares their favorite entertaining and hosting do’s and don'ts with plenty of laughs along the way.

“Cointreau is the key ingredient in my favorite cocktails – an ice-cold Margarita and a Cosmo on the rocks in a tumbler. So when Cointreau approached me, it was kind of fated,” said Dan Levy. “Having spent the spring shooting The Big Brunch alongside some of my culinary heroes, I needed to pull-up my socks when it came to hospitality — so I chose to start this summer perfecting some cocktails to level-up any gathering."

“Cointreau is an essential ingredient in hundreds of the world’s most well-known cocktails and continues to be a staple for at-home bar carts especially when entertaining friends and family,” said Ian McLernon, President and CEO at Rémy Cointreau Americas, “ Our partnership with Dan gives consumers all of the tips they need to host any summer gathering, one delicious Margarita at a time. Dan is such a natural fit with our brand and we know our audience will love what he brings to the table this summer and beyond.”

Starting on July 28th, Margarita lovers can head to the Entertainment Weekly x Cointreau content hub to view the first video in this three-part series, watch Levy make The Original Margarita and learn more through Summer 2022.

Originally created by Dallas socialite Margarita Sames by mixing her two favorite spirits, Cointreau and tequila, while vacationing in Acapulco, Mexico in 1948, The Original Margarita has remained an iconic cocktail that consumers enjoy all around the world. You can make The Original Margarita at home with three easy ingredients: Cointreau, blanco tequila and fresh lime juice.

The Original Margarita

• Ingredients
  • 1 oz Cointreau
  • 2 oz blanco tequila
  • 1 oz fresh lime juice
• Directions
  • STEP 1: Rim your rocks glass with salt
  • STEP 2: Combine all ingredients in a shaker with ice
  • STEP 3: Shake vigorously until well chilled
  • STEP 4: Strain into a rocks glass filled with fresh ice
  • STEP 5: Garnish with a lime wheel

About Cointreau:
Cointreau is the iconic orange liqueur at the heart of more than 500 of the world’s most celebrated cocktails, including The Original Margarita, The Cosmopolitan, and The Sidecar. The House of Cointreau was founded in 1849 in Angers, France, where Edouard Cointreau perfected the recipe. Blended with sweet and bitter orange peels, Cointreau has a unique, balanced flavor beloved by mixologists and bartenders worldwide.

To learn more about Cointreau, visit www.cointreau.com or follow Cointreau on Instagram/Twitter via @Cointreau_US or Facebook via @cointreauUS.

About Rémy Cointreau:
All around the world, there are clients seeking exceptional experiences; clients for whom a wide range of terroirs means a variety of flavors. Their exacting standards are proportional to our expertise – the finely-honed skills that we pass down from generation to generation. The time these clients devote to drinking our products is a tribute to all those who have worked to develop them. It is for these men and women that Rémy Cointreau, a family-owned French Group, protects its terroirs, cultivates exceptional multi-centenary spirits and undertakes to preserve their eternal modernity. The Group’s portfolio includes high-end and singular brands, such as the Rémy Martin and Louis XIII cognacs, and Cointreau liqueur. Rémy Cointreau has a single ambition: becoming the world leader in exceptional spirits. To this end, it relies on the commitment and creativity of its 1,850 employees and on its distribution subsidiaries established in the Group’s strategic markets. Rémy Cointreau is listed on Euronext Paris.