gunnersbury park

1 1/2 oz Compass Box Great King's Street Scotch (Famous Grouse Smoky Black)
1 oz Carpano Antica Sweet Vermouth (Giacomo Speroni)
1 oz Cynar
1 bsp Grapefruit Juice (1/8 oz)
1 dash Bittermens Grapefruit Bitters

Stir with ice, strain into an old fashioned glass with a large ice cube, and garnish with a pinch of salt and a grapefruit twist.Two Saturdays ago, I returned to the recipes that I had garnered from a restaurant's ToastTab that contained drinks from Alcove in Boston. There, I latched onto the Gunnersbury Park that made me think of the Bitter/Little Giuseppe given the Cynar, vermouth, and pinch of salt garnish. Moreover, Scotch and Cynar have worked together rather well in drinks like Laughter in the Dark and Backward's Point; therefore, I decided to make this cocktail that I was able to date to around 2019 via one of Alcove's menus. In the glass, the Gunnersbury Park offered up grapefruit and herbal aromas to the nose. Next, grapefruit, grape, and caramel notes on the sip turned into smoky Scotch, bitter herbal, and grapefruit peel flavors on the swallow.