A Last Word with spicy rye where the gin was and lemon in place of lime, it pours darker and warmer than its ancestor while keeping the same four-way equal balance. The rye's spice pushes against intensely herbal Green Chartreuse, maraschino adds a cherry-pit sweetness that rounds the edges, and lemon's softer acidity keeps the whole thing bright in a chilled coupe.
Shaken · Coupe · Up
add
Combine the rye whiskey, Green Chartreuse, maraschino liqueur, and lemon juice in a shaker.
shake
Add ice and shake well until thoroughly chilled.
strain
Fine-strain into a chilled coupe; serve up, no garnish.
Phil Ward, a bartender working in New York, came up with the drink around 2007 at Death & Co. Its name is a pun on both its parent and its maker — the Last Word turned into the Final Ward. He left the older drink's equal-parts template untouched and changed only two of its four ingredients, giving the Last Word a self-named descendant built on American whiskey.