Meditations on the Aromatic Cocktail
David Embury classifies cocktails into two distinct groups: sour cocktails and aromatic cocktails. I've written in the past about sour cocktails but have been mostly silent about aromatic ones.
Until NOW, that is! It was an omission that just had to be rectified. Right? RIGHT?!
Aromatic cocktails are flavoured by some kind of aromatic wine, spirit, or bitters. Based on my (limited) experiments, I broadly categorize these drinks into: