Sunken City

Written By Daniel Zajic

SUNKEN CITY

  • 1 oz. / 30 ml. pineapple rum

  • 1 oz. / 30 ml. Cognac

  • ½ oz. / 15 ml. Cynar

  • ½ oz. / 15 ml. coffee liqueur

  • 2 dashes mole bitters

  • orange peel oil

METHOD
add all ingredients to mixing glass / stir with ice until chilled / strain into a chilled Nick and Nora / garnish with an expressed orange twist

ABOUT
This cocktail was created by Frederic Yarm (@fredericyarm) and is named after the Les Baxter exotica track. Yarm remade it in 2025 for a Planteray Stiggins’ Fancy Pineapple Rum competition, swapping the original old-fashioned serve with a Nick and Nora and specifying Pierre Ferrand Ambre Cognac. Pineapple rum and cognac provide a rich, tropical backbone, Cynar and coffee liqueur add depth and bittersweet complexity, and mole bitters round out the layers with subtle spice. Cheers y’all!

Daniel Zajic
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