trash & vaudeville

1 1/2 oz Rye Whiskey (Rittenhouse)
1/2 oz Mezcal (Peloton de la Muerte)
1/2 oz Benedictine
1/2 oz Amaro Montenegro

Stir with ice, strain into an old fashioned glass with a large ice cube, and garnish with an orange twist.After posting my Oaxacan Lady on Reddit during the day and making it for a guest later that night at the C-Side Bar, I decided to riff on the Montenegro-Benedictine combination when I got home from work. I crossed a Frisco (rye-Benedictine) with an M&M (mezcal-Montenegro) and named it after a store on St. Mark's Street in Manhattan that I was reminded of in the book St. Mark's is Dead. I used to buy clothes there in the 1990s back when the edgiest clothes in Boston could only be found at Allston Beat and a few other select places. I previously had mashed up the Frisco with the Alaska for the Call of the Wild which worked well, so I went ahead with the idea. I originally made this as equal parts rye & mezcal, but I think the 3:1 works better. In the glass, the Trash & Vaudeville came forth with orange, caramel, vegetal, and smoke aromas. Next, caramel and clementine notes on the sip were transformed into rye, smoky mezcal, vegetal, orange, and herbal flavors on the swallow.