doctor yah-yah

1 1/2 oz Cynar
1/2 oz Green Chartreuse
1/2 oz Rhum Agricole (Rhum JM 100°)
3/4 oz Lime Juice
1/2 oz Orange Juice
1/4 oz Cinnamon Syrup
1/4 oz Donn's Spices #2 (1/8 oz Vanilla Syrup + 1/8 Allspice Dram (Hamilton's))
1 dash Angostura Bitters

Whip shake with crushed ice, pour into a Tiki mug, fill with crushed ice, and garnish with mint sprigs.Two Sundays ago, I had the idea of mashing up the Nui Nui classic Tiki drink's citrus and spices with the Cure's The Drink of Laughter and Forgetting's Cynar-Chartreuse base. For a name, I considered the New Orleans aspect of the Cure drink and dubbed this one the Doctor Yah-Yah after a voodoo practitioner known for his cures and potions that I read about in Herbert Asbury's The French Quarter book. In the Tiki mug, Doctor Yah-Yah enchanted mint, caramel, grassy, and lime aromas to the nose. Next caramel and lime notes on the sip melted into herbal, herbaceous, grassy, allspice, cinnamon, and vanilla flavors on the swallow.