This is a serious gin. For three reasons. First because the aroma immediately envelopes you in another time and place:...
Penelope Bourbon is one of our favorite bourbon producers, crafting small batch, beautifully elegant expressions year after year. Their newest...
Cocktail lovers, take heed. This new sherry-based vermouth from Gonzalez Byass is going to give you something to shout about. It's a revival of the 19th century La Copa vermouth, made from 8-year old Oloroso and Pedro Ximénez sherries, with wormwood, clove, orange peel, nutmeg, angelica and quinine. The orange peel has
Milwaukee is so famous for beer that its baseball team is named the Brewers, and a guy used to slide into a vat of beer every time one of them hit a home run. Laverne and Shirley ran for seven years, into the early '80s, featuring two women who capped bottles in
Monkey 47 is not your typical London Dry Gin. If you want to think London think Malcom McDowell's Alex, raging through a futuristic London in the first 20 minutes of A Clockwork Orange. Barely recognizable from just hints of juniper, it's pounding milk-plus and doing ultra-violence, with Beethoven from its home in Germany
It's Monday again. I got through it. How about you? Let's celebrate. Today we're going to start with Dry Fly Washington Gin, a delightful offering from Dry Fly Distilling, in Spokane, Washington. It's a lovely gin, intensely fruity, with berries taking the front seat to traditional juniper. Too much vermouth,
Juniper? Of course, but that's not what drives Principe de los Apostoles Mate Gin. It's the peppermint, the eucalyptus, and yerba mate, used in traditional Argentine tea, that makes this go. The peppermint and eucalyptus take the lead, but a silky chocolate lingers on the finish. Turning this into a