demure thoughts

1 1/2 oz Planteray Stiggins' Fancy Pineapple Rum
1/2 oz Peated Scotch (Caol Ila 12 Year)
1/3 oz Campari (2 tsp)
3/4 oz Lime Juice
1/4 oz Rich Simple Syrup (Sirop JM)

Shake with ice and strain into a coupe glass. Two Thursdays ago, I recalled meeting Shawn Soole at Portland Cocktail Week this year, so I reached for his Great Northern Cocktails book. There, I latched onto the Demure Thoughts by Dinah Kisil at Calgary's Proof Cocktail Bar that read like the Daiquiri with Scotch version of the Campari Swizzle. Moreover, rum and Scotch have worked well in Daiquiri riffs like the Mr. Howell and Strangeways Daiquiri, so I was sold. In the glass, the Demure Thoughts expressed itself with a peat smoke and herbal orange aroma. Next, lime and caramel notes on the sip were mindful of the rum, pineapple, whisky, smoke, and bitter orange flavors on the swallow.