3/4 oz Rittenhouse Bonded Rye
1/2 oz Cocchi Sweet Vermouth
1/4 oz Italicus Rosolio di Bergamotto
1/2 oz Ramazzotti Amaro
1/4 oz Benedictine
1 dash 18.21 Havana & Hide Bitters
Stir with ice and strain into a rocks glass pre-spritzed with Alice and the Magician's Tobacco Aromatics.
Two Wednesdays ago, I headed over to Backbar to see what they could do with the Angel's Envy Bourbon on their shelf; this interest began in the last few weeks as I became the Angel's Envy Whiskey Guardian for Boston. With that disclosure aside, bartender Kat Lamp opted to make Joseph Gabriel Habib's Vieux Carré riff called the Italian Leather Sofa. One of my friends on Instagram alerted me that this was named after a musical track by Cake, and it definitely seemed like the drink was shaped to match the song title. Also, a topic of conversation was the new Backbar cat mascot (see below) that is the third version of this bow tie cat design after the first two unfortunately got stolen (see cat #1 in this 2017 post and cat #2 in this 2019 post).
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2 comments:
I can't make this, but it sounds epically delicious and ache to try it one day. A beautifully slow sipper meant to be enjoyed over time.
I understand. I can't make this for lack of Italicus at home (besides the bitters and aromatic spray). It was too tasty not to write it up though.
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