The Gordon’s Cup is the nested Russian dolls of sour-style drinks. It’s like if you put a through the movie Inception . It takes the primary tension of its family of , and cubes it. Layered. Deeper. More.

To explain: Sours, as a family, are all about the push-and-pull. You need resistance. This is why your early fumblings in the mixological realm were likely terrible, because you combined, probably, cranberry juice (sweet) with orange juice (sweet), triple sec (sweet again) and Fireball (literally liquid candy).

This is also why it’s so satisfying when you finally get it right. There’s the same amount of whiskey in a as there is in an , but it’s leagues easier to drink, because of the magic tension of sour drinks: You take something very sour, like lemon juice, and match it with

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