In Sliving Color

For Christmas this year, my brother gave me a bottle of 100-proof Slivovitz and challenged me to make a cocktail with it. I loved the plum flavor of the brandy, and felt that it would pair nicely with sweeter herbal liqueurs, and I wanted liqueurs in colorful bottles. I chose yellow Chartreuse and Bénédictine for their relative sweetness, the Pavan for its colorful bottle and complementary yet complex flavor, and Domaine de Canton for a bit of ginger punch. For lengthening and fizziness, I toppe...