The Remember the Alimony is a graduate-level Negroni. It’s a that went back to school to get its PhD. It is identifiably in the style of the Italian classic, but takes the Negroni’s most insular measures—the bitterness, the esoteric flavors—and increases all of them.

The comes to us from 2012 New York City, from bartender Dan Greenbaum and the bar he co-owned at the time called the Beagle. The Beagle was a classic cocktail bar that had a particular focus on , which is not the kind of thing you just stumble into; in his short career before then, Greenbaum had worked under some greats, first restauranteur Matthew Piacentini and then cocktail-Yoda Sasha Petraske, and quickly grew a taste for the depth and complexity that sherry can bring. He’d been to Jerez (Sherry’s namesake town, in Spain)

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