day for night

1 oz Barr Hill Gin
1 oz Avèze Gentian Liqueur
3/4 oz Dolin Blanc Vermouth
1/4 oz St. Elder Elderflower Liqueur
1 dash Bitter Truth Cucumber Bitters

Stir with ice, strain into a Nick & Nora glass, and garnish with a cucumber slice on a pick. Two Mondays ago, I ventured down to Coolidge Corner to visit Corey Campbell who was bartending at Bar Lunette. For a first drink, I requested the Day for Night that Corey described as a White Negroni variation created by Nick Mallia, one of the owners of Paris Creperie and Bar Lunette. In the glass, the Day for Night offered up cucumber, gentian herbal, and floral aromas to the nose. Next, white grape and grapefruit notes on the sip transformed into juniper and cucumber herbal flavors on the swallow. Indeed, cucumber and gentian liqueur flavors paired rather elegantly here as they did in the Little Oaxacan.