Uploaded January 2024 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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My top 3 cocktails of 2023. As we say goodbye to 2023, I thought I'd feature my top 3 cocktails from last year. Although, there were lots of contenders, I could only pick 3.
What are your top 3 occktails from last year??

Wake up Little Suze-y:

Ingredients include:
60 ml/2 oz Dry Gin
30 ml/1 oz Amaro Nonino
15 ml/.5 oz Suze
7.5 ml/.25 oz Luxardo Maraschino liqueur
2 dashes - Orange Bitters
Stir down with ice for 22 seconds
Serve "up" in a chilled cocktail glass.
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Negroni Torbato:

30 ml/1 oz Laphroaig
30 ml/1 oz Aperol
30 ml/1 oz Cynar
Stir down with ice for 20 seconds
Serve over ice in a rocks glass
Garnish with an orange rind.
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"Well, recorda-me" Old Fashioned

75 mil/2.5 oz Wheated Bourbon
10 mil/.33 oz Demerara syrup
2 Dashes - orange bitters
2 Dashes - Angostura bitters
Build in a rocks glass
Add sexy chunk of ice
Stir for 25 seconds
Garnish with a twist of orange.