Let your night heat up with Habanero Hell Fire, a spicy cocktail created by Beverage Director Jakob Hostetter of Cantina 1838, the NYC Taqueria and Tequila Bar. The main ingredient is super-premium Tres Agaves Reposada Tequila, which has a balanced flavor of baked tropical fruits, hints of citrus and spice, …
Kentucky. Tennessee. California? While not previously thought of as a whiskey wonderland, the West Coast is wading into the amber waters with Greenbar Distillery’s SLOW HAND Six Woods Whiskey and its Cask-Strength cousin. While Kentucky and Tennessee varieties have been painstakingly steeped in tradition, Greenbar Distillery preferred to take an …
Cantina 1838 knows how to mix a good cocktail, and its frozen Ginger con Hielo can prove it. According to the tequila bar’s Beverage Director, Jakob Hostetter, the secret to making this beverage a succulent success is to pour Tres Agaves Reposada Tequila over a giant cube of frozen Triple …
The Distillerie des Alpes has a recipe for you. Actually, it has many, many recipes for you. Each recipe presents brilliant tasting ideas for how to enjoy the distillery’s remarkable selections of Vermouth—a Vermonade, a Mauresque Maï Taï, an Alpine Bellini, and more—all exceptionally produced in the small French town …
There is a lot of whisky in the world – excellent malts, delicious blends and a growing number of grain whiskies. So why would anyone try and create another one, let alone three? Thankfully, two men decided they wanted to because their creations are not only very good and complement …
The recent Irish whiskey explosion in bars across the world has set in motion a runway locomotive of high-end sipable Irish whiskeys that spirit enthusiasts just weren’t privy to in the past. The common Irish drinker is no longer some goon at a bar getting a ripper of Jamie on …
For those who like their cocktails shaken, not stirred, Mandarina Rosa margarita is the girl for you. Concocted by Beverage Director Jakob Hostetter of NYC’s Cantina 1838, the drink is a double-strained mixture of Tres Agaves Blanco Tequila, tangerine juice, and lime juice. The super-premium tequila is made 100% de …
Once upon a time… in 2008, in a land far, far away in… Waco, Texas, Balcones Distilling was born. This award-winning distillery has been known for their craft whiskey. With two distilleries, whiskey education themed events, and two beautiful copper Scottish stills, whiskey has never been so praised. All of …
Now that dry January is well and truly over (if you’re into that kind of thing), allow me to help slowly ease your way back from your wanna-be-healthy booze-free lifestyle. If you’ve been dying for your lips to embrace that first sip of an alcoholic beverage, then you’ve come to …
Lost Distillery Co is definitely not lost when it comes to whisky. The expert distillers focus and pride themselves on 10 key components of creating the greatest hand crafted whiskies. These 10 components, such as locality, water, barley and so on, result in 8 key flavor nuances for their whiskies: …
Some might say that Antonio Conte is the most Italian thing in Chelsea these days. They would be wrong. For nothing could be more Italian than VII Hills Italian dry gin’s partnership with King’s Road restaurant Ritorno for the second Dolce Domenica aperitivo session of every month. VII Hills is, …
What is it about that first Pina Colada, Rum Punch, Daiquiri or even local beer like Red Stripe or Kalik that makes it feel like your vacation has really started? It’s a moment combining the right libation and setting, usually including sand, sea and sunshine, that marks the beginning of …