rube goldberg variation #3

1 1/2 oz Buffalo Trace Bourbon (Evan Williams Bonded)
1/2 oz Mezcal Vago Espadin (Peloton de la Muerte)
1/2 oz Cardamaro
1/4 oz Apricot Liqueur (Rothman & Winter)

Stir with ice and strain into an old fashioned glass.Two Tuesdays prior, I found the Cardamaro recipe booklet pdf file on my computer and began perusing. There, I spied the Rube Goldberg Variation #3 by Ben Riddell of Nomica and The Interval in San Francisco that the brand sourced from a 2016 Instagram post on @bittersandbottles. I was lured in for Cardamaro and apricot worked well together in my Father's Advice riff, The Listening Room. I then researched the drink and found it on The Interval's menu described as, "Named for those crazy contraptions from cartoons where the ball rolls down the ramp and lands on the lever that lights the match that burns the rope and releases the trap, Ben loves drinks (and devices) with lots of crazy things happening, one after another, with a dramatic ending." In the glass, the Rube Goldberg Variation #3 invented an apricot, grape, vegetal, and smoke aroma. Next, Cardamaro's grape filled the sip which emptied out into Bourbon, smoky vegetal, bitter herbal, and apricot flavors on the swallow.