- 1 oz reposado tequila
- 3/4 oz sweet vermouth
- 1/2 oz mezcal
- 1/2 oz batavia arrack
- 1/4 oz allspice dram
- 1/4 oz Bénédictine
- 2 dashes chocolate mole bitters
I was heating up some leftovers of this amazing soup for dinner, so I decided to find a tequila drink to go with it. If you search for “tequila cocktails” most of what you get back is some kind of margarita. BORING. I looked in the Death & Co book and happened upon this, which was apparently made up on the spot when a regular asked for something using his favorite things. Well, to quote the book: “The problem was that he likes a lot of weird shit.”
This is definitely a weird, weird drink. I used Punt e Mes instead of Carpano as suggested, which may have made it slightly more bitter than advertised. Still, this was all over the place. Bitter, smoky, with a bit of a sweet chocolate after taste.