dirty blvd

1 1/2 oz Belle Meade Bourbon (Evan Williams Bonded)
3/4 oz Punt e Mes
3/4 oz Aperol

Stir with ice, strain into a single old fashioned glass pre-rinsed with Laphroaig Scotch, and garnish with an orange twist.Two Fridays ago, I returned to the online flashcard set for Atlanta's Paper Plane when I landed upon the Dirty Blvd. This Boulevardier riff likely named after the 1989 Lou Reed song reminded me of the bar's Bigmouth Strikes Again that I recently made, and it had the Punt e Mes-Aperol duo of several drinks including Jeffrey Morgenthaler's Bittersweet Symphony and Brian Summers' Chicago Typewriter. With the twist garnish and Scotch rinse, the Dirty Blvd greeted the nose with an orange and peat smoke aroma. Next, grape and tangerine notes on the sip wandered over to Bourbon, bitter herbal, and orange flavors on the swallow with a wisp of smoke on the finish.