A Recipe for Louisville Love: Possibilitini

OK that title is perhaps a little misleading. Mixing and drinking this cocktail probably won't attract a new paramour for you (though it might) but it will allow you to be all sentimental and full of civic pride and thus share your Louisville Love. If you think about all the things the recipe tells you to you might even choke you up a little bit. Well probably only if you're the kind of person who tears up like a little baby every single year during the playing of My Old Kentucky Home for Derby. I don't know anyone at all like that. *cough*

Tim Laird from Brown-Forman invented this drink for the GLI annual meeting back in March but I think it sounds tasty and thus I'd like to see it turn up on bar menus. So I'm, you know, writing about it here in the hopes that some brilliant bar manager will send an email round that says "Michelle, come have a Possibilitini at our place."

Possibilitini
In a shaker with ice add:
2 ounces of Woodford Reserve Bourbon (representing the area which is known as Bourbon Country)
1 ounce of Chambord Black Raspberry Liqueur (this is a French liqueur which represents Louisville's relationship with France)
Shake vigorously to demonstrate how Louisville is shaking things up and is definitely a, "mover and shaker" of a City

Pour into a tall Martini glass representing Louisville's growth and potential
Garnish with a green maraschino cherry (this represents both, Louisville's green movement and prosperity)

Obviously the drink is tied into the Possibility City campaign, (full disclosure I'm working on Imagine Louisville) and I'm a-ok with that. My only question is whether my good friends over at Maker's Mark will come up with an equally civic pride filled cocktail that I can sip somewhere soon. I'll never choose between Woodford and Maker's and you can't make me. I love them both.