Slow and Low Rock and Rye. It sounds a bit like a tween dance sensation you wouldn’t want your twelve-year-old daughter getting involved in or a line from a hip-hop song you always mutter because you’re not quite sure of the precise lyrics or what they could possibly mean, but …
Three craft cocktails at Bar Pleiades at The Surrey in the Upper East Side will set you back $60 before tax and tip. A single “World Cocktail” at the exclusive World Bar in the Trump World Tower includes an oh-so-exclusionary $50 price tag. Considering this, plus the fact that it’s …
Tequila is a bartender’s friend, and not just for its versatility, shoot-ability, and drinkability. Tequila is what we reach for at the end of the night when we want to pour ourselves just one after all the money is counted in the wee hours of the morning. If you want …
Born out of one family’s love for wine, viticulture, and the great area of Northern California, The Ehret Family Winery is committed to embracing the Sonoma County region and producing some of the finest fruit around. Since 2005, the Ehret family—Pierre, Susan, and their children Alexander, Christian, and Isabella—has been …
Before you get all unnecessarily snooty and highbrow regarding the Pabst brand, we’d like you to clamber down off that uncomfortable hipster-supported craft beer high horse, make yourself at home in this inviting, battered-cushioned barstool, and allow us to crack you open an ice-cold can of Old Tankard Ale, a …
Celebrating victory with tequila? Undoubtedly a tradition we’re eager to embrace. Victory over Friday’s eye-for-an-eye rush hour, victory over the eventual completion of a seemingly interminable work week, victory in the form of the cutting retort you formulated in answer to your catty coworker’s would-be witticisms—albeit several hours too late. …
Searching for a high quality single malt to sip after work that won’t cause you to reconsider the higher education cost of your present or future children? Those of us with a palate for fine whisky know all too well the lofty price tag that often accompanies the rich, smoky …
Danish engineer and adventurer Anders Bilgram was first inspired to start his distillery by a 26,000 km trip around the North Pole and the communities that populate its coasts in an open boat voyage that began in 1999. During Bilgram and his Russian co-navigator Sergey Epishkin’s visits to some of …
When you’re drinking sangria, ouzo, cava, Prosecco, or some fabulous Bordeaux, you can expect to be mentally transported to the azure-skied, sun-drenched, white-washed region of the world that surrounds the Mediterranean Sea. It’s an enchanting domain, draped with bougainvillea, lush with vineyards and orchards, rich in history, culture, and cuisine, …
We’re here to prove you wrong that you don’t need vast vineyards in a warm location with many attentive staff members to create a spectacular wine. You can do it right in your own home with your own hands in as a little as four weeks. We kid you not. …
You’re familiar with the economic principles of supply and demand; you know that as a consumer every choice you make with your dollars, pounds, euros, etc. has an effect, however miniscule, on the global economy. To this end you’ve been purchasing Fairtrade coffee, honey, and chocolate for years, and as …
New Friend (Negroni Style) 1 1/2 parts Courvoisier VSOP 1 part Dolin dry vermouth ¾ part Campari Method: Build in glass, add ice and stir. Sparkling Spring Sangria 4 parts Courvoisier® VS Cognac 4 parts DeKuyper® Peach liqueur 2 bottles Prosecco ½ cup white grape juice 2 peaches Green grapes Watermelon …