The early aughts were cocktail culture's equivalent to the Gold Rush. Instead of the boomtowns along California's Sacramento River and miners in search of gold, however, this surge was in a bustling New York City, where bartenders were rushing to invent and name twists on classics that could solidify the creator's name in drink history forever.
"Adeline [Shepherd] and Craig [Harper], worked together at a bar in Edinburgh called Oloroso, which inspired the team to learn and experiment with the fortified wine," says Michael Hajiyianni, general manager at Ruby. For a video shoot at the bar, Harper mixed a drink starring whisky and PX sherry in Manhattan proportions, "laying the foundation for what would become known as the Rapscallion," Hajiyianni says.
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