1 oz Carpano Antica Sweet Vermouth
1 oz Aperol
Stir with ice and strain into a cocktail glass spritzed with Medjool date essence.
For my second drink at Eastern Standard last week, bartender Hugh Fiore said that he had a rum drink that was inspired by his trip to Manhattan's Death & Co. bar. After hearing the ingredients, it sounded like a Smith & Cross Rum version of the gin-based Negroni variant, the Contessa. Given that Smith & Cross makes most everything taste better, I was game.
Postnote 10/8/21:Hugh was most likely introduced to the Kingston Negroni that had been created less than a year before.
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Interesting - Death & Co. (here in NYC) just rolled out a new menu and on it they have a drink called the Kingston Negroni (Smith & Cross, carpano and campari).
Thank you for commenting! My notes said P.D.T./Death & Co. since he mentioned both, and I only wrote P.D.T. in this post. So this sounds very much like Mr. Fiore was influenced by!
Also, I changed (besides the bar) the name to Kingston Contessa.
No worries, if i had to guess i'm sure PDT has a variant as well (and they are only a block away from one another ...)
You know I thought the name was different when I first read the post.
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