[Lee Stewart]

The first-ever tequila sunrise was made at the Arizona Biltmore Hotel by Gene Sulit during the 1930s or 1940s. The original recipe featured tequila, creme de cassis (blackcurrant liqueur), lime juice and club soda. Today, it’s built with tequila, orange juice and grenadine. The modern-day version is credited to bartenders Bobby Lozoff and Billy Rice, who worked at the Trident in Sausalito, California, in the 1970s, but it was Mick Jagger who made the drink so popular. He tried it at the Trident in 1972 and liked it so much that he and his entourage started asking for it at bars across the country.