Liquor 101

31 May

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Tiki Week: The Legend of Don the Beachcomber We're not island types. It's not a mistake that our entire adult lives have been spent in big, hard-charging, businesslike cities. We know, however, that a key to successful urban living is, every once in a while, escaping to...

30 May

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Tiki Week: Not All Rum is the Same We're not island types. It's not a mistake that our entire adult lives have been spent in big, hard-charging, businesslike cities. We know, however, that a key to successful urban living is, every once in a while, escaping to...

29 May

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Tiki Week: The American Schools of Cocktail One of the things I liked best about Robert Simonson's semi-official history of the cocktail revival, A Proper Drink, was the way it helped me to understand the different schools of modern drink-making. I'd always known that not all...

10 May

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Liquor 101: Irish Whiskey The Irish may have created whiskey. They also may not have. The Scots stridently argue that they're the original whiskey distillers. Apparently, the vikings also have a claim, though modern Scandinavians don't seem to stake that claim in quite the same way...

08 May

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Tasting Mancino Chinato We've been on something of a (greater than usual) fortified wine kick for the last week or so, prompted by the arrival of several samples from fortified wine importer Fasel Shenstone. Beyond being simply delicious, they've taught us a lot about fortified wines, and...

04 May

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Tasting St. Raphael Quinquina Let's talk about Quinquinas. A few days ago, we mentioned that Cocchi Americano is a quinquina, not a vermouth, and arguably therefore should never have been allowed in our Vermouth Taste-Off tournament. That might have left you with a couple of questions: 'What exactly...