Liquor 101: Liquor Reviews

10 Mar Capitoline: DC’s only Vermouth + San Martin Cocktail Recipe

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Capitoline: DC's only Vermouth + Drink of the Week: San Martin When we decided on the contestants in our vermouth tournament (cheap sweet bracket, cheap dry bracket, expensive dry bracket, expensive sweet bracket, championships), we disqualified American vermouths. We felt that they were a bit too newfangled for...

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25 Feb Drink Of the Week: Moon Over Martinez

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Drink Of the Week: Moon Over Martinez Having just learned about Don Ciccio and Figli's wonderful amare, we wanted to put one of them straight to work. We couldn't think of a better partner for Don Ciccio's liqueurs than Wigle Whiskey's spirits. These are two companies who...

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24 Feb Don Ciccio & Figli: the art, the craft, the story of small batch, all natural liqueurs

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Don Ciccio & Figli: the art, the craft, the story of small batch, all natural liqueurs "Art and food present effective tool kits for navigating extreme and unpredictable circumstances: both bring people together, stir curiosity, and can incite positive change. The practical side of food can...

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12 Feb Drink of the Week: Not Your Red Roses Cocktail Recipe

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Drink of the Week: Not Your Red Roses  It's bitters week. First, Embitterment taught us all about what makes bitters special. Then, to prove the point, we got this little beauty in a goodie package from our friends at Wigle. As soon as we tasted it, we...

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31 Jan What they drink in Iceland (Brennivin) & do you want to drink it

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What they drink in Iceland (Brennivin) & do you want to drink it? In our very earliest posts (here and here and here), we talked about our idea that you can have a quite adequate home bar if you buy eight basic bottles, and then a...

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18 Jan Cocktail Experiments: Hopped Whiskey

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Cocktail Experiments: Hopped Whiskey There's a lot to like about our friends at Wigle. While there are plenty of things to like about them as people, two of the top thing we like about their liquor are their rigorous devotion to local--native even--ingredients, and their almost boundless...

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18 Dec 12 Drinks of Christmas: Spiced Winter Red Sangria

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12 Drinks of Christmas: Spiced Winter Red Sangria For the tenth drink of Christmas, my true love served to me ...

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14 Dec 12 Drinks of Christmas: Alpine Sangria

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12 Drinks of Christmas: Alpine Sangria For the sixth drink of Christmas, my true love served to me ...

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10 Dec 12 Drinks of Christmas: the Italian Winter Red Sangria

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 12 Drinks of Christmas: the Italian Winter Red Sangria For the fourth drink of Christmas my true love served to me ...

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30 Nov Should I buy it? Gran Classico (in place of Campari?)

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(photo cred: uniquitchen.com) Should I buy it? Gran Classico (in place of Campari?) In one of the cocktail books I've been reading recently--I can't remember which, and can't find the passage. Sorry, fine author, for the lack of proper attribution!--the author mentioned something that is, of course, true...

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