Cider, Spice, And Everything Nice Tea Cocktail

Name: Cider, Spice, And Everything Nice Tea Cocktail
Ingredients: 4-5 ounce cold cinnamon spice tea (oversteeped at 10 minutes); 1 1/2 ounce orleans aperitif; 1 1/2 ounce maker’s mark bourbon; 1/4 ounce lemon juice; 1/4 ounce apple cinnamon simple syrup; 5 dashes fee bros. whiskey barrel-aged bitters

Marcy Franklin|Dec. 3, 2012 11:05 am EST

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This chilled, Orleans aperitif is a dry cider-apple wine infused with basil and anise hyssop, from Vermont. Together with cinnamon spice tea, bourbon, housemade apple cinnamon simple syrup, and whiskey barrel-aged bitters, this cocktail (pictured on right) truly embraces the flavors of the season. Click here for more "tea-tails" for winter.

Servings

1

Ingredients

4-5 ounce cold cinnamon spice tea (oversteeped at 10 minutes)
1 1/2 ounce orleans aperitif
1 1/2 ounce maker’s mark bourbon
1/4 ounce lemon juice
1/4 ounce apple cinnamon simple syrup
5 dashes fee bros. whiskey barrel-aged bitters

Directions

Fill a shaker with all ingredients. Fill shaker with ice and shake. Slice an apple and place slices firmly against the inside of a highball glass, leaving some space between each slice through which to view the contents of the cocktail (pattern look like the spots of a giraffe). Carefully fill highball 7/8 full of fresh ice and strain the cocktail into the glass slowly.