Bartenders Choice 1: The Count of Montecristo

Since @FrozenXorg posted a cocktail recipe lately I'm stealing his shtick and doing it better. I'll be posting weekly cocktail recipes that yall should be going out to try every friday and/or saturday night . You should unironically screenshot the recipe and give it to a bartender to make (and if they ask you what to sub with, theyre dogshit and you need a new bar to visit). I'm going to begin with a cocktail I lifted straight from the best cigar lounge I've ever been to (and I really want to go back so bad) and its the lounges take on a Vieux Carre... The Count of Montecristo .

Get a mixing glass and throw in:

.75oz of Remy Martin 1738 Cognac (sub the Remy Martin VSOP if they don't have 1738)

.75oz of Woodford Reserve Rye

.5oz of Sweet Vermouth (Carpano Antica formula or Punt e Mes recommended)

1 barspoon of Grand Marnier

1 dash of Peyschauds bitters

1 dash of Angostura bitters that have been infused with black tea leaves (or just use regular ango bitters).

Once thats all in the glass, add a ton of ice and stir until chilled. Strain it out into a rocks glass with a rock in the center and garnish with a dehydrated orange wheel and a proper maraschino cherry. If neither then use an orange twist.

Since @FrozenXorg started off with a basic Old Fashioned I figured a higher end Vieux Carre would be a good start for something similar but classier. Lain is excused from trying this out as he has to report back on a specific bar Ive sent his butt to, he will learn the way of bitterschads.

Home bar chads will get the cheaper version at:

.75oz Courvoisier VS or VSOP

.75oz Rittenhouse Rye

.5oz Carpano Antica or Punt e Mes (cant go cheap here tbh)

1 barspoon of dry curacao

1 dash of Jerry Thomas' Own Bitters

1 dash Peyschauds bitters