sweater weather

2 oz Four Roses Bourbon (Four Roses Small Batch)
1/2 oz Averna
1/2 oz Zucca Rabarbaro (Sfumato)
1 bsp Herbsaint

Stir with ice, strain into a cocktail coupe, and garnish with an orange twist.

Two Wednesdays ago, I was perusing the Community Cocktails book from 2020 and spotted the Sweater Weather by Emily Pavela at the Whitehouse-Crawford Restaurant in Walla Walla, Washington. The recipe appeared like a mashup of a Black Manhattan and the Law of Octaves that I used to make at La Brasa (2 oz rye, 1 oz Zucca, 1 dash aromatic bitters, flamed orange twist) with an accent of Herbsaint perhaps for brightness. Moreover, I had good luck combining Averna and Zucca/Sfumato in the Caustic Negroni for the former soothed out the rougher charred bitterness of the latter.The Sweater Weather proffered an orange oil aroma over bitter and smoky notes. Next, a caramel and roast sip progressed into Bourbon, bitter herbal, caramel, and anise flavors on the swallow.