Paper Plane

The Paper Plane is a modern-classic whiskey sour built from four equal parts — bourbon, Aperol, Amaro Nonino and fresh lemon juice — shaken hard and strained ice-cold into a stemmed cocktail glass. It is an amber-orange drink, bittersweet and bracing: the rich grain of bourbon set against the bitter-orange lift of Aperol, the herbal complexity of Amaro Nonino and the sharp acidity of lemon. Created in New York in 2008 by the bartender Sam Ross as a riff on the Last Word, it became one of the defining cocktails of the modern craft revival and was added to the International Bartenders Association's official list in 2020.