Spirits
Growing up, I loved chocolate milk, and when I find a similar taste in an “adult beverage” I’m generally pretty appreciative. So I was right on it, when these cute little bottles of Patrón XO Café Dark Cocoa Coffee Liqueur arrive the other morning. The sun must have been over the yardarm somewhere. This tequila-based [...]
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I’ve had some of the the Exclusiv Vodcas for some time now, and I’m glad I waited and sampled them over the course of several weeks, in different ways. Exclusiv is a wheat vodka made in Moldova, a tiny country tucked between Romania and Ukraine. First, I want to mention that the bottles’ design is [...]
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The Macallan. Why does “the” sound so pretentious at first? And now it just rolls of my tongue. Actually, I haven’t had any tonight. Recently I sampled several (again), from ten- to 25-year-old. My favorite? The 17-year-old, which was elegant, smooth, with good body. I’d prefer to sip that one in the evening with its [...]
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It’s Godiva. The Vodka, not the truffles. Well, we might have had the truffles, if there had been any left. But we ate them as soon as we opened the box. The Godiva people sent over chocolate and chocolate-raspberry truffles with samples of their chocolate infused and chocolate raspberry infused vodkas. Often, when a company [...]
The KINGDOM of Navarra: a blend of super-chef, medieval castles, good to great wines and it’s green, too: 38 windfarms generate 65% of their energy. An ancient tradition of wines and spirits, and very modern hearty but beautifully balanced red wines, often temperanillo and temp blends. And a few lyrical sauvignon blancs, too. We had [...]
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If you want to save the planet while imbibing — responsibly, of course — you might like to know that Tru Organic Vodka is not only tru-ly [sorry] organic they they are so responsible they have a tree-planting program. (Vodbox in Beverly Hills has already helped plant over 1,000 trees.) 360 Vodka claims to be [...]
Decades ago, after spending a year abroad I got on a flight back to the US and asked for the most American drink I could imagine: root beer. I was shocked when the flight attendant told me they didn’t carry it. I love root beer. My father loved root beer. Whenever I see artisanal root [...]
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Ever found yourself in a frozen room full of high end vodkas? With sculptor/potter Peter Shire and a few friends? And one of you – not sure which – is wearing a leopard skin pillbox hat? Well, it happened to me a few weeks ago, in Beverly Hills. Oh, yeah, I think I was the [...]
Have you noticed the beginnings of the molecular mixology movement trickling into bars in the US? Following the molecular food revolution that began in Spain, bartenders here are moving into their kitchens to concoct tinctures and other flavorings for their cocktail inventions. But these aren’t the fruit-based infusions of the past decade: these flavors are [...]
