By Type

Modern Classic Cocktails

Cocktails invented roughly since the mid-1980s cocktail renaissance that have since traveled well beyond the bar that created them and earned a permanent, worldwide spot on menus. The defining trait isn't age — some are barely 15–20 years old — but reach: a genuine modern classic is one that spread far past its city of origin and got adopted broadly by other bartenders.

Whiskey

Penicillin

Smoky, honeyed, ginger-hot — the most-copied new cocktail of the last twenty years.

Gin

Bramble

A gin sour with a bruise-purple drizzle — as pretty as it is easy.

Whiskey

Paper Plane

Equal parts, four ingredients, no garnish — one of the most-copied modern cocktails of the last two decades.

Tequila/Mezcal

Naked and Famous

Equal parts, smoky and bittersweet — modeled directly on the Last Word's structure.

Brandy/Cognac

Intercontinental

Armagnac, amaro, and maraschino, stirred — three countries, one glass.