Armagnac Darroze Grand Assemblage 12 year
With a dark gold-amber color and strong nose of dried fig and macerated cherries, even after ten years in oak, this blend of Gascony grapes is still...
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Shaw Vineyard Finger Lakes Riesling 2008
I've never been a huge booster of Finger Lakes rieslings--they're pleasant enough in my experience--good for the local New York market, but...
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V.S.O.P. Cognac Leyrat
Brandy is an underappreciated category in the US--Cognac in particular by anyone who isn't a cigar smoker or rapper--and I confess I have been slow...
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2001 Lur-Saluces Sauternes by Chateau de Fargues
It isn't every day that I get to converse with a prince of Orleans, but it also isn't every day that I get to sample as exceptional a wine as this...
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Recuerdo 2012 Malbec, 2012 Torrontes
Wines from Argentina are becoming increasingly commonplace in the US Market, but I was intrigued to try these boutique bottlings, efforts of a truly...
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Four Roses Japanese-only Fine Old Bourbon
There are two possible ways for you to experience this particular bottling by Kentucky's Four Roses Bourbon: Either you get it in Japan, where it has...
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Minute Mixologist: “Ninja Whale” Manila Rum Punch
For a recent Typhoon Haiyan survivors benefit, I created this simple rum punch inspired by Filipino flavors: Cut the heart of a medium size pineapple...
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Bourbon, Rum, Vodkatini Body Scrubs by Farmhouse Fresh
Hello! A scrub made from Bourbon, buttered rum or watermelon basil and vodka? Talk about date bait! Let the boozy spa day commence... Farmhouse Fresh
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Fred Minnick and “Whiskey Women”
I just finished reading his new book "Whiskey Women" in time to meet up with my colleague and friend Fred Minnick in Louisville this week and...
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Cloudy Bay Sauvignon Blanc 2013: One To Remember
A bushel of ripe grapefruit hits you on the nose of this impossibly pale new release, along with a few limes. Lemon and kiwi add to the...
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Crater Lake Root Beer
Might be the rootbeeriest Root Beer these lips have ever tasted: richly sweet and herbaceous, but not a darn thing 'grown-uppy' about it. Stewart's,...
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Glenlivet 70, Balvenie 50 at Talon Club, The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas
However there is only one place in Vegas to sample the rare delights of both Glenlivet 70 (circa 1940, 200 bottles worldwide) and The Balvenie 50...
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Minute Mixologist: Tequila Moda Viejo
This started as a Mexican riff on the Old Fashioned (hence the name: Old Fashion in bad Spanish), and that's essentially what it is, but the emphasis...
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Minute Mixologist: Darker, Stormier “Sail On, Sailor”
"Sail On, Sailor" (with apologies to the Beach Boys) was admittedly born out of the opportunity that my mother's under-utilized liquor cabinet...
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Tuesday 16 August, 2016
Brandy is Dandy: Armagnac vs. Brandy de Jerez
Although it pre-dates virtually all other spirits, brandy may be one of the most misunderstood and underappreciated categories in alcoholic beverages right now. Very basically, brandy is a distilled spirit, typically ranging from 33-40% abv, made from grapes (all brandies may also be called eau-de-vie, but eau-de-vies can also be made from other fruit). Brandies […]
Tuesday 09 August, 2016
Finding the Perfect Rum? Diplomatico vs. Santiago De Cuba
It wasn’t that long ago that rum was a relatively downmarket spirit. Despite rum (or ron or rhum in its original languages) being the most popular alcohol worldwide, as recently as 15 years ago it was considered almost exclusively a mixing spirit—even in the smoother version that Bacardi originated in the late 1800s, supplanting most […]
Wednesday 11 May, 2016
What Spirits Will Ascend? Inside the 73rd WSWA 2016
It always takes a few days to digest everything that happens at WSWA—not to mention, sober up—hence why it’s taken me some time to post this wrap up on the convention of the Wine & Spirits Wholesalers of America in Las Vegas April 18-21st. At least, that’s my story and I’m sticking to it. Distinct […]
Monday 04 April, 2016
The Future Belongs To Blended Scotch Whisky. There I said it.
For the past 50 years or so since William Grant introduced Glenfiddich, the first marketed single malt Scotch whisky, “single malts” have dominated the dialogue about serious whisky appreciation worldwide, not-so-subtly pushing blended whiskies to a second-class category that has not always been warranted. But, owing probably to the popularity and thus growing scarcity of […]
Tuesday 19 January, 2016
For the love of Negronis …and Amaro
Ask an American bartender to name his or her favorite cocktail, and nine times out of ten you’ll get one answer: Negroni. Negroni, Negroni, Negroni. What’s behind this fascination with the cocktail somewhat famously created in post-WWI Firenza, Italy by “Count” Negroni (there are other theories, as well as questions about the Count’s peerage, but […]
Monday 30 November, 2015
Why You Need To Know Sherry Better
Sherry is a wine category that is largely under-regarded in the drinking world at large and even in the fine wine world, partially because it has still not recovered from a period of mediocre quality in the late 20th century, and partially because it is so easily misunderstood. But the winemaking of Jerez is equally […]
Friday 27 November, 2015
Five Bottles I’m Obsessed With! Unusual Gift Spirits
Need to find a gift bottle for that hard-to-impress cocktail fan? Your answer may be here. I’m lucky enough to get samples of a lot of different spirits, some of which are easier to categorize than others. That can be a detriment unfortunately, in that the more something is an outlier, the longer it may […]
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