Paper Plane Recipe
Paper Plane Ingredients
1 part Bourbon (I used Woodford Reserve)
1 part Aperol
1 part Amaro Nonino
1 part Lemon juice
How to make a Paper Plane
Shake all ingredients with ice and double strain into a chilled coupe or martini glass.
The Paper Plane is four ingredients in equal parts: bourbon, Aperol, Amaro Nonino and fresh lemon juice, shaken and served up. Sam Ross built it at Milk & Honey in 2008 for the opening menu of a Chicago bar and named it for the M.I.A. song that was everywhere that summer. It's become one of the few modern classics that bartenders everywhere actually know, and it's the easiest way to use a bottle of Amaro Nonino.
It drinks like a whiskey sour that went to Italy. The Aperol brings the bitter orange, the Nonino brings caramel and a little grappa bite, and the lemon keeps all of it from going sweet. Three quarters of an ounce of each is a standard pour; one ounce each is a big one. Because it's equal parts it batches without math, which makes it a good Thanksgiving drink: multiply by the table, shake two at a time.
