"One is never too old to be in fashion," Tucci wrote in the caption of his new Instagram video, which has received more than 360,000 views at the time of writing.
"I'd like to make you an Old Fashioned, would you like one?" Tucci asks Blunt (who is the sister of his "The Devil Wears Prada" costar Emily Blunt) at the start of the video.
"I'd love one," she replies.
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"Good, cause it's 11:30 in the morning and it's about time to start," he tells her with a smile.
Then, as smooth jazz tinkles in the background, Tucci's cocktail class begins.
"This is a really great drink because it's so simple," he explains. "It's basically bourbon, sugar water, Angostura bitters, a twist of lemon, and a twist of orange."
Tucci begins by adding some ice to a glass. He then throws in about two ounces of bourbon and "just a teaspoon" of the simple syrup.
"Now, supposedly, the story that I like about this drink is that there was this whiskey cocktail, but it was made in so many different ways that people started to request, 'Can you please just make a whiskey cocktail the old-fashion way?' And this is the old-fashioned way."
Tucci then adds a dash of the Angostura bitters, gives it a mix, and strains the drink into a glass with ice.
"Ideally, you want to have one of those super big ice cubes that you get," he said. "We don't have that, so I'm just using regular ice cubes."
Tucci then takes the orange and lemon twists, rubbing both peels along the rim of the glass before throwing them into the drink.
"I saw somebody do that once," he quips.
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Tucci then gives his glass a little shake before taking a sip.
"I'll try it first," he tells Blunt, nodding happily after tasting his creation.
"We have to say, he pretty much nailed it," said Gregory Lucas and Parker Boase of Liquid Lab NYC .
Lucas and Boase said that there's just a few changes they would make — including the order in which Tucci added his ingredients.
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"We would suggest switching the simple syrup for a sugar cube, and then muddle it with an orange peel and Angostura bitters," they said. "Finally, add the bourbon and stir with ice — this is the traditional method for preparing an Old Fashioned."
Aleksey Reznikov, of The Garrett, also recommends adding a couple of extra dashes of the Angostura bitters.
"You want four to five dashes of bitters to make it count," he said. "And if you really want to bring out the flavors, then add the orange bitters as well."
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