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The Paper Plane is a modern masterpiece of equal-parts cocktail design — created by Sam Ross (the same bartender behind the Penicillin) in 2008 at New York's Milk & Honey and named after the M.I.A. song playing in the bar that night. It calls for equal parts bourbon, Aperol, Amaro Nonino Quintessentia, and fresh lemon juice, resulting in a perfectly symmetrical drink that balances bitter orange, herbal alpine bitterness, bourbon warmth, and citrus tartness in a way that seems impossible until you try it. Added to the IBA's list of official cocktails in 2020, it has become the defining modern classic — proof that great cocktail innovation didn't stop in the 1920s.