Happy Valentine’s Day! Love’s Sweet Forgiveness.
Let me start by saying that I’m really not crazy about this drink’s name even though I’m the one who made it up. Three weeks ago, however, I posted a cocktail called Love’s Bitter Revenge whose flavor was (you guessed it) on the bitter side. It wasn’t really that I was being cynical about love, but rather that I wanted to pair Lillet Rouge, Cynar, and DRAM black bitters together with Bluecoat gin. I wanted today’s drink to be just the opposite of that and so I needed the name to reflect it. The …