Cocchi Americano

— No. 147 —

Room 112

This cock­tail is a col­lab­o­ra­tion Reed Cahill and I came up with for Mon­day nights at Wet City where we show­case a spe­cial cock­tail menu. As it’s the 25th anniver­sary of Bad Boy Records, we fig­ured it was only appro­pri­ate to do a ‘peach­es and cream’-esque trib­ute to 112. The idea came about when Reed grabbed a bot­tle of bar­rel-aged peach white grape bal­sam­ic from local Greek vine­gar and olive oil store DEVOO. This bal­sam­ic is insane­ly com­plex and fla­vor­ful, so …

— No. 134 —

The Fencer

The Lucien Gaudin is a clas­sic but obscure cock­tail that cel­e­brates the well dec­o­rat­ed French ear­ly 20th cen­tu­ry fencer of the same name. You may notice it shares sim­i­lar­i­ties with the Negroni. Both fea­ture gin and Cam­pari. The Lucien Gaudin how­ev­er has the dis­tinct pres­ence of orange, both from the fla­vor with the Coin­treau and in aro­ma of the orange peel gar­nish. The Lucien Gaudin is a dry, crisp clas­sic that is light on its feet. Lucian Gaudin 1 oz …