Sunday’s Finest Gold Fashioned is a bottled old fashioned cocktail from Chicago, built by Robert Haynes of Violet Hour fame. The blend pulls from well-aged straight whiskeys stock as old as 15 years sweetened with cane sugar and balanced by house-made saffron bitters of vanilla, cacao, Seville orange, and gentian. The Gold Fashioned lands in yearly batches, so the exact whiskey recipe shifts from run to run, and Esquire named it the best bottled cocktail of 2021. In the glass it reads candied orange and caramel over soft oak, the bitters keeping all that sweetness honest. Pour two ounces over one big cube, let it rest a minute, and finish with an orange twist.