Name: Oaxaca Old Fashioned
Prep time: 2 min
Total time: 2 min
Yield: 1 cocktail
Cuisine: Cocktails
Ingredients: 1 ½ oz tequila; ½ oz mezcal; ¼ oz agave; 2 Angostura bitters

Philip Ward's 2007 Death & Co creation splits the base between reposado tequila and smoky mezcal, sweetened with agave nectar and rounded by Angostura — a flamed orange twist crowns the glass and turns the classic Old Fashioned template into something earthy and magnetic.

combine and stir

lowball glass

tequila

mezcal

agave

Angostura bitters

orange twist

Oaxaca Old Fashioned

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Oaxaca Old Fashioned

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