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Venus Fly Trap
The Venus Fly Trap
cocktail, made with by Ilana Savdie
Casa Dragones
Tequila Blanco
1.5 oz Casa Dragones
Tequila Blanco

1 oz freshly squeezed
grapefruit juice

0.5 oz freshly squeezed
lemon juice

1 oz lychee cordial

Add all ingredients to a shaker
with ice. Hard shake before
double straining over a large ice
cube in a rocks glass. Garnish
with half a rambutan and seed.

Artist Ilana Savdie with her cocktail
creation at Art Basel Miami, 2023

Tequila queen

A lesson in creative cocktail-making at Art Basel

Casa Dragones is known for doing his giant canvases of Penguin book
things differently. Its co-founder and covers, with each crafting a cocktail
CEO, Bertha González Nieves, is the recipe based on their practice.
world’s first Maestra Tequilera. Her But it was former Miami local
small-batch tequila brand is female- Ilana Savdie’s creation, the Venus Fly
led, and when catering to the crowds Trap, that proved a particular hit.
at December’s Art Basel Miami, the Born in Colombia, now a resident of
brand side-stepped serving the artists Brooklyn, Savdie’s riotous canvases—
in attendance, persuading them most recently seen at the Whitney
behind the bar to “art-tender” instead. Museum of American Art—vibrate
Guest art-tenders in the Casa with color and texture. So, little
Dragones tasting room of the fair’s wonder she chose the otherworldly Photos: Courtesy of Casa Dragones.
Collectors Lounge included NYC rambutan fruit to garnish her glass.
subway art king Lee Quiñones and For those who want to shake
artist-author Harland Miller, famed for things up at home, try her recipe.

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