dagny taggart

1 3/4 oz Scotch (Famous Grouse Smoky Black)
1/2 oz Aperol
1/4 oz Torani Amer

Stir with ice, strain into an old fashioned glass rinsed with Ardbeg 10 Year Scotch, add a large ice cube, and garnish with a flamed (unflamed) orange twist.Two Sundays ago, I spotted a curious drink called the Dagny Taggart in a comment on KindredCocktails and traced it back to Imbibe Magazine in 2011. There, it described how it was created by Leo Rivas at Seven Grand in Los Angeles and named for the fictional heroine in Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged. The combination of Aperol and something Amer Picon-like was one that I enjoyed in the Bigmouth Strikes Again, so I was curious to see it matched with Scotch. In the glass, the Danny Taggart proffered a peat smoke and orange aroma. Next, malt and a hint of caramel on the sip opened up into smoky Scotch and bitter orange transitioning to softer orange flavors on the swallow.