Pictured: The Green Fairy In spring of this year, Oakland locals Seth and Jenni Bregman began transforming the former Michel Bistro into Bardo Lounge & Supper Club, and this month the new on-premise location opened its doors. Combining an inviting, 1960s living room-inspired cocktail lounge with an intimate upstairs dining …
Honey-infused cocktails are gaining speed as a bar favorite and whether your tipple is gin, rum or bourbon, there’s a honey cocktail somewhere this autumn calling your name. Drink Me Magazine has the Top Ten List from around the country and where to find ‘em. The Magarian @ Carson Kitchen | …
When you have a reputation as an unconventional distillery, why would you be satisfied with just two levels of sherry cask maturation? That’s the question behind the new BenRiach Sherry Wood 12-year-old Single Malt. Made using three-way sherry wood maturation (full sherry cask aging followed by Pedro Ximinez and Olorosso …
Started by longtime Sonoma friends, Matthew Allan and Kenny Rochford, West + Wilder—a great bottle of wine that happens to come in a can—is redefining the look and taste of canned wine and setting a new benchmark for quality within a growing category. Dedicated to sustainability and taste, the small …
Ragged Branch Distillery is releasing its Wheated Straight Virginia Bourbon Whiskey.The smooth taste, flavor and aroma of the company’s new product is everything the makers had hoped for – and more. “It has been tough to be patient waiting for our wheated bourbon to come of age, but now that …
Spuntino Wine Bar & Italian Tapas, specializing in small plates that put modern twists to Italian classics and fine wines from around the world, announced the expansion of its wine program at its location in Clifton, NJ. The restaurant – which has received Wine Spectator’s Award of Excellence for six …
Hidden away in the north-east corner of Scotland, the Forgue valley is a little-known place, with a quiet bucolic way of life. The wind rustles the barley, the frequent rains feed the Dronach Burn, and life carries on much as it has for the last two hundred years. One of …
Chardonnay is the enviable grape that can be so many different things—lean and clean to butter bombs to late harvest and sparkling. The 2016 Prescription is an assertive wine with a docile price tag. This single-appellation chardonnay from Clarksburg is stainless steel fermented but with added oak. Fermenting it this …
Ingredients 2 oz Angostura® 7 Yr. Rum 1 oz Demerara Simple Syrup 1 oz Lime Juice 12-14 Mint Leaves 6-8 dashes Angostura® Aromatic Bitters Method: Muddle mint leaves, lime juice and simple syrup in a highball glass. Fill glass with dry crushed ice. Pour rum over crushed ice and swizzle well until …
Glenfiddich recently celebrated the release of its experimental single malt whisky, Fire and Cane. Matured in bourbon barrels and finished in Latin rum casks, it’s a memorably bold and smoky sweet whisky that warranted the lavish event thrown for its release at San Francisco´s The Lodge in The Regency recently. …
Celebrate the spookiest time of the year with a Monkey 47 Autumn Old Fashioned, a premium gin handcrafted in the dense, mysterious and eerie woodlands of the Black Forest in Germany. Straight out of a fairytale bedtime story, the forest is not only home to the Monkey 47 distillery, it …
As the seasons change so, too, do our palates and, consequently, our preferences in cocktails. Layered fall cocktails include ingredients like mole bitters, sherry, demerara and cinnamon flavored simple syrup. Fall recipes slowly tiptoe into the minds of bartenders, ultimately replacing their summer counterparts on bar cocktail menus, and gatherings …