Flavors like these aren't as far-fetched for the typical drinker as you might imagine. "You can connect that easily to the dirty martini," says Balchum of the savory caraway profile, which could conceivably help these spirits hop onto the nostalgic rediscovered-spirit trend. He doesn't care for the stuff himself, but then again he's not an old-timer like me, or like my grandmother was, for that matter. She really was right about everything.
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