Yield: 1 cocktail

Ingredients:

• 2 oz. Michter’s Single Barrel Bourbon
• 1 oz. unfiltered apple cider
• ¾ oz. lemon juice, freshly squeezed
• ¼ oz. barrel-aged vanilla syrup
• ¼ oz. Benedictine
• Two dashes cinnamon

Directions:

• Make the vanilla syrup by adding equal parts of water and sugar; then add a few vanilla beans to the solution, dissolve and simmer for 10 minutes
• In a mixing glass, add all of the ingredients
• Add ice and shake or stirred, as desired, for 30 seconds
• Using a low ball or rocks glass, add fresh ice and strain  mixed ingredients into glass
• Garnish with a slice of red apple, a dash of cinnamon and a cinnamon stick

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