My favourites are two classics.
1. Martini. Preferably in-and-out. Just wash the glass with vermouth, fill with cold gin and olives. Failing that, shaken with a few drops of vermouth is fine.
2. Sazerac. Absinthe, whiskey and bitters. When done right this thing is bliss.
I got a bottle of Tequila (1800 Silver) for Christmas. I drank a couple of chilled shots on the rocks so far but still have most of the bottle in my freezer. Can anyone recommend a good cocktail using Tequila? I'm open to anything except a margarita as I don't like those.
1800 is a decent silver tequila, though I usually use Don Julio for this. But shake with some vermouth and you have yourself a Tequini.
Tequila also goes surprisingly well with just sprite, or in a few juice cocktails. Tequila Sunrise is the obvious one, but I find a good solution is 45mL of Tequila, 15mL of Blue Curacao and about 90mL of Pineapple juice shaken with ice and poured into a glass goes down a treat.