Leave it to Eric Johnson and Thad Vogler to take an odd recipe from the famed 1930 Savoy Cocktail Book and make it into a complex and balanced drink so good they keep it off their standard cocktail menu (well, that's our guess). The Moonraker starts with Marian Farms biodynamic brandy, combined with Leopold Brothers Peach Brandy, Cocchi Americano (an aperitif wine flavored with herbs, spices, and the bitter cinchona bark), and a few dashes of absinthe.
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