Best Sentimental Gentleman Recipe: How Make a Whisky

Iam not claiming to be the Sentimental Gentleman. Not even a little. I am merely saying that I am a sentimental gentleman. I’m sentimental about it.

Let’s back up: The Sentimental Gentleman is a . It’s a terrific cocktail actually, a robust and resonant little autumnal sipper, composed of whisky, the herbal French Bénédictine, and a (traditionally) Italian liqueur of green walnuts called nocino (“no-chee-no”). It was invented in 2012 by a bartender named Misty Kalkofen, at a bar called Brick & Mortar, in the Cambridge, Mass. neighborhood of Central Square.

All of this seems fairly straightforward, because it very much is straightforward. The only thing I have to add here is that I’m shocked to the point of embarrassment that I hadn’t heard of this cocktail before recently. It’s not j