
Here's The Aviary's original "In The Rocks" cocktail, which paid homage to the Old Fashioned. (Photo via endlesssimmer.com)
It's been well over a year since Grant Achatz's The Aviary first introduced In The Rocks, the innovative sipper that set the standard for molecular gastronomic cocktails.
But it's time for a change, now that new head mixologist Charles Joly is in charge of the beverage program. The original paid homage to the classic Old Fashioned, and the guest shattered a spherical-shaped ice cube to release the liquid contents into a rocks glass. According to Esquire's David Wondrich, The Old Fashioned was conceived in 1806, so it made sense to launch the beverage program with such a classic offering.
Joly's rendition takes on a more modern elixir, the Vieux Carre, which was born in the 1930s in a New Orleans hotel.
Says Joly:
"This is one of my favorite spirit-forward cocktails and great as the temperature cools down. It has a little more umph than its predecessor. We've developed a Peychaud's ice egg (the sphere in which the cocktail is held is made with Peychaud's bitters, a key ingredient in the cocktail). It gives the ice a pale red hue."
I don't have a photo yet of the new In The Rocks cocktail because it quietly launched late Tuesday night, but here are the ingredients:
Rittenhouse 100
Punt e Mes sweet vermouth
Pierre Ferrand 1840, 90 proof Cognac
Benedictine
Peychaud's and Angostura bitters with lemon oil
I cannot wait to try it!
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