August 13-Naked and Famous

Created by Joaqin Simo at Death and Co, the Naked and Famous is a brilliant Last Word variation that replaces almost every ingredient except the lime juice. The Gin is rerplaced with Mezcal, the Green Chartreuse is replaced with Yellow Chartreuse, the Maraschino is replaced with Aperol and the lime juice stays the same. This cocktail is the perfect representation of the falacy that a variation needs the same spirit to be related. But this cocktail has the soul of a Last Word while replaciing everything in it with something else.

This cocktail has just about every flavour desired in a drink. You get sour from the lime, sweetness and bitterness from the aperol, botanical elements from the chartreuse and smokeyness from the mezcal. I used Montelobos mezcal in this but the original is made with Vida and I would recommend that one in particular for cocktails in general. My store just so happpened to be out of it so I pivoted like Ross in Friends.

Full judging here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EP7xVb54euzfe2nxB2iS0iTtmgGTtPVZ1hD-5WKrDqw/edit?tab=t.0