What we like about the older, traditional distilleries is their dependability. When you buy Beefeater gin, for instance, you know exactly what you’re going to get: a quality gin, that tastes like we expect a dry gin to taste, and works well in a reliable...
Where to Drink on the PCH: Pebble Beach When we spent the first week and a half of January on a driving tour of California, introducing our new child to some of our favorite people and places, our family kindly lent us one of their cars...
Liquor Stores We Rely On: Potomac Wine and Spirits We write all the time about the bottles we buy, what we think of them, and what we make with them. Every once in a while we give a little credit to the liquor stores where we...
Old Fashioned Martini Cocktail Recipe As you'll know if you read our post 'What's the Ideal Dry Martini?', learning of Hemingway's preference for a 15 gin: 1 vermouth proportion sent us into some research on martini recipes over time. We, of course, found that gin to...
Daisy de Santiago Cocktail Recipe We're spending this week acquainting ourselves with a very old, mostly forgotten class of cocktail called the Daisy, a sort of sour with something(s) extra. It's a deliciously refreshing and aptly named cocktail for the current season of warming temperatures and...
12 Days of Christmas 2016: Witches' Brew Sangria Cocktail Recipe Happy holidays! It's the time of the year for holiday decorations, twinkling lights, warm spices, and a rolling series of parties, gatherings, and celebrations. For the second year in a row, we'll be adding to the festivities...
Happy Hour at Provision 14 If you've been following us for long, you know that one of our biggest delights at moving from Boston to DC was discovering the Happy Hour, and that one of our ongoing quests is to find a good happy hour for...