Finally got to make good use of the photos I shot of the bottled cocktails at Saxon + Parole for my Men's Journal piece on the killer "Point Blank" cocktail at Saxon + Parole. Shot these back in May or June and they languished a bit until finding their rightful home. The rich visuas of these cocktails in the tall glass and wood cabinet behind the bar made it easy to photograph, and those photographs hard to edt.
POINT BLANK
1.5 oz. Chivas 12 Year
1 oz. Dolin Blanc Vermouth
1/4 oz. St. Germain
5 dashes Bitter Truth Lemon Bitters
Stir to well chilled, strain into coupe, top with lemon twist.
Named after the ultra-stylish 1967 John Boorman gangster movie, I can personally attest to its wicked potency of this cocktail in addition to its irrestible flavor harmonics. Just don't have more than two, or it may trat you the way Lee Marvin treats Angie Dickinson in the film: brutally.
On the ligher side of the bottle cocktail news a S + P, the El Presidente was on offer when I was shooting. Below, the mini bottles that are sent to the recipient of a gift subscription to announce their prize. These little bottles are almost cooler than the big bottles with your name amblazoned on them.
You get the drink's backstory and recipe on your little mini bottle of happiness that arrives in the mail to tell you the good news. Brilliant stuff.
The cabinet is a rogues gallery of cocktail world figures.
..although all are welcome. This has got to be one of the sweetest holiday gifts you could give a New York City drinker this year.
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