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One Trick Pony

From The Cocktail Notebook · Drinks · Sours & Shaken


One Trick Pony

Le Farfalle Restaurant (bar)

Makes 2 cocktails

One Trick Pony cocktail

Rye and Amaro Montenegro brightened with blood orange and ginger—bittersweet and citrus-forward.

Ingredients
  • 3 oz Rye bourbon (Bulleit 95 Rye, Rittenhouse, or similar)
  • 1 oz Amaro Montenegro (Italian amaro/liqueur)
  • 1 ½ oz fresh lemon juice
  • ½ oz ginger simple syrup
  • ½ oz honey
  • 1 oz Monin Blood Orange Purée, or similar
Method
  1. Add all ingredients to shaker
  2. Dry shake (shake without ice) for 10 seconds
  3. Add ice to fill shaker halfway
  4. Shake vigorously for 20-25 seconds until well-chilled
  5. Double strain into chilled coupe or whiskey sour glass
  6. Garnish with expressed orange peel

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