Rum with a vieux

A complex addition to the "brown, boozy, stirred" category, the Rum with a Vieux clearly takes notes from a Vieux Carre and a Sazerac while using a blend of rum and brandy as the base spirit. 

Ingredients:

• ¼ oz Classic Gum Syrup
  
• 1 oz aged agricole rhum
• 1 oz cognac
• ¼ oz Jamaican rum
  
• 4 dashes Peychaud's bitters
• 2 dashes aromatic bitters
• 2 dashes absinthe

Instructions:

• Add all ingredients to a mixing glass with ice
  
• Stir 20 seconds and strain into a chilled coupe

Glass:

• coupe
  

Garnish:

• lemon twist

Photo:

Caer Maiko Ferguson