Yes, it's a Manhattan with delicate hints of chocolate and orange. A cocktail that properly delivers on its name. If you're looking for a simpler recipe...
We rarely stray from our favoured Sweet Manhattan but this is a bit of a show-stopper. Bravo. In our community, we gather around a bonfire in our local park for a sausage sizzle and conviviality on the night of the winter solstice...looking forward to longer days. We might offer some of these around this coming June.
No, it's a pretty gentle but, nonetheless, joyful middle class sort of affair. The middle class sometimes gets a bit of a bad rap from those both above and below (and sometimes even from within). But, at least in the West, it was the locus of achievement and contentment for many in much of the middle part of the 20th Century.