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Chicago-based Sunday’s Finest Cocktails released its inaugural ready-to-drink Gold Fashioned in 2021, and the RTD satellite has ne'er been the same. With laser absorption connected producing impeccably sourced, masterfully crafted cocktails that tin beryllium enjoyed whenever and wherever, the Sunday’s Finest team—led by laminitis Robert Haynes—leapt to trade cocktail prominence with the instauration of its super-premium, classical Old Fashioned blend, created with the champion imaginable variations of its comparatively elemental ingredients (whiskey, bitters, sugar).
No alien to the cocktail world, Haynes, a Chicago bartender astatine heart, climbed the ranks astatine James Beard award-winning cocktail barroom The Violet Hour earlier shifting his absorption to assistance make Letherbee Distillers’ Bësk, a cult-classic among manufacture professionals and planetary imbibers. In 2017, helium co-founded Apologue, a enactment of award-winning liqueurs featuring palate-provoking ingredients. His introduction, with co-founders Jordan Tepper and Damiane Nickles, of the 2021 Gold Fashioned earned a Double Gold medal astatine the LA Spirits Championship and a rubric of Bottled Cocktail of the Year from Esquire.
Gold Fashioned’s 2022 iteration ups the ante connected the archetypal with a split-base blend of 3 older whiskeys for the cleanable equilibrium of richness, spice, and character: a 15y Kentucky Straight Bourbon, a 9y Kentucky Straight Bourbon, and a 6y Indiana Straight Rye. Complementing the whiskeys are Sunday’s Finest Saffron Bitters (made in-house) and people earthy Fair-Trade Demerara from Malawi. Flavor-wise, the bitters blend is anchored by hand-harvested Afghan saffron, wild-harvested French gentian root, and Seville orangish peel, which bring floral and bitter citrus apical notes that are balanced by the warmth and spice of the single-estate Ecuadorian cacao and Grade A Tahitian vanilla. Warning: One taste, and nary different Old Fashioned volition ever compare. (Move implicit Angostura-dribbled sweetener cube.)
'This year's Gold Fashioned represents the culmination of implicit a decennary spent behind the bar, meticulously moving to marque each cocktail amended than the last,” said Haynes. “Every constituent of this satellite people cocktail has been fine-tuned and is ready-to beryllium enjoyed with your friends and loved ones whenever and wherever suits you best.'
The Gold Fashioned’s customized packaging (a stately bluish and gold, bi-fold box) makes it perfect for gifting. The presumption includes a zest atomizer filled with a blend of Valencia, navel, and humor oranges, to beryllium misted implicit the poured cocktail which is ideally chilled with 1 ample crystal cube. Each 750 ml vessel ($150) contains astir 12 2 oz cocktails.
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