the velvet smoking jacket

1 1/2 oz Mezcal (Del Maguey Vida)
1/2 oz Falernum (Velvet)
1/2 oz Laphroaig 10 Year Scotch
1 dash Orange Bitters (Angostura Orange)

Stir with ice, strain into a cocktail coupe, and garnish with a lemon twist.Two Fridays ago, I was listening to the Bartender at Large podcast bonus Q&A session with guest Jacob Mentel of Wormwood in San Diego, and he mentioned that they did a Laphroaig-falernum Old Fashioned (2 to 1/2 oz ratio). I began perusing the web for the recipe and instead came across on Kindred Cocktails database The Velvet Smoking Jacket created at the Gander in Manhattan as published in a 2016 Travel & Leisure article. This recipe did have Laphroaig but it was a minor component to mezcal, and I decided to give it ago especially since it reminded me of the Better & Better which utilized a funky rum instead of the whisky. Once prepared, The Velvet Smoking Jacket proffered a lemon, vegetal, and smoke aroma. Next, malt and lime notes on the sip fled into mezcal, wood smoke, lime, and clove flavors on the swallow.