This is a great option if you’re planning to make margaritas for a big gathering and you know your guests have different spice tolerances. Choose from mild or hot, or select both, to add to your growing collection of spicy cocktail-rimming salts. Who doesn’t love a customizable product? While there’s a beautiful simplicity of ingredients in the Hatch Green Chile Salt from Desert Provisions - just sea salt and green chiles from New Mexico - the company offers a customizable spice level to suit your preference. Pros: This salt comes in a two-pack for just $28 - a great deal for an artisan-made rimming salt.Ĭons: Because this salt comes in a small glass jar, you will need to pour it onto a flat surface or plate to rim the glass. While this method is a bit more time-consuming than a ready-to-go cocktail salt, it’s worth the umami-rich payoff. We recommend finding a good cocktail salt recipe and slowly adding this pure truffle salt to your liking. It’s infused with real Italian truffles, so tread lightly, because it doesn’t take much truffle to infuse a lot of aroma and flavor. The company hand-harvests salt directly from Netarts Bay off the coast of Oregon. Pacific North Westerners all know and love Oregon’s town of Tillamook for their delicious cheese, which is why we gravitated toward this artisan White Truffle Sea Salt from producer Jacobsen Salt Co., crafted in this storied foodie town. Pros: This White Truffle Sea Salt is made with real Italian truffles - no synthetic flavors or aromas here.Ĭons: This is very coarse, flake sea salt and will need to be ground down with a mortar and pestle or spice grinder for use on cocktail glass rims.

Ingredients: Salt, sugar, lime peel, chili pepper, and orange peel.

Because of its balance, it can even serve as seasoning salt on grilled meats to be chopped up and thrown into tacos - taking Taco Tuesday up a notch with restaurant-quality fixings. This set comes in a two-pack and each jar contains four ounces, so this will serve a good many cocktails.

The salt coupled with the sugar and the chili coupled with the citrus peels brings a very balanced flavor profile. And the Red Clay Spicy Margarita Salt has just that, with a combination of salt, sugar, lime peel, chili pepper, and orange peels.

When it comes to an all-purpose rimming salt that can magically pair itself with a wide variety of cocktails, you have to look for balance in the ingredients. Pros: This is a very balanced rimming salt with sweet, salt, and acidic ingredients.Ĭons: The small, spice-jar style packaging means you’ll have to pour the salt out to rim the glass. Ingredients: Sea salt, bourbon, and oak flavors.Dickinson should be a staple ingredient for every home bartender. Coming from seventh-generation salt makers, this artisan Craft Cocktail Salt from J.Q. The salt is finely ground and offers just a hint of bourbon and oak flavors this gives the salt an added layer of flavor depth without taking away from its purity and versatility. It’s versatile for any cocktail for which you would throw salt on the rim, plus the wide-mouth tin packaging makes application quick and easy. Dickinson makes a mean Bloody Mary salt (also featured on this list), but their Craft Cocktail Salt earns our best overall pick for its simplicity and purity in flavor.

Dickinson Craft Cocktail Salt is made by seventh-generation salt makers and is conveniently packaged in a wide-mouth tin for easy application.Ĭons: While there is a hint of bourbon and oak flavors, this sea salt is pure and simple in its flavor profile - there is no acid or sugar here.

Flavored margarita salt