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National Chocolate Caramel Day

There can't be enough chocolate-themed national days in a year, so here's another one. Is there a more perfect duo than chocolate and caramel?

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Ketel One Garnished with Good

Paradiso, Barcelona, for years a pioneer of sustainability, partnered with Ketel One Vodka's Garnished with Good initiative to present the third edition

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20 best St Patrick's Day cocktails

St Patrick's Day not only calls for you to dress in green but to toast the Emerald Island with emerald-coloured Irish whiskey-based cocktails, stout, or

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20 best Espresso Martinis

The Espresso Martini is itself a riff, by its creator, on his earlier Vodka Espresso. Indeed, the Espresso Martini is a cocktail that lends itself to variation

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Doctor

Lighter and arguably more satisfying than the various citrus-heavy Doctor Cocktail recipes (see Doctor No. 1 to No. 4). Obviously, with two such dominant

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Old Roma

A bittersweet, delicately chocolatey Old Fashioned with liquorice-led herbal complexity.

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Tussetto No. 2

Dry, gin-laced and sherry-influenced with subtle salinity.

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Italian Fascination

Cream mellows the peppermint led herbal spirituous notes of Galliano with subtle coffee and orange notes.

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Industry Sour

Herbal, bittersweet and sour. Being a 'Sour', it seemed fitting to add a few drops of saline and a splash of egg white.

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Waterfront

Noted for being the cocktail that packs the most Fernet, this is a brilliant brunch pick-me-up or a refreshing and revitalising digestive.

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Hard Start

Bittersweet, invigorating, and refreshing, it is good served at room temperature but better when the ingredients and glass are chilled.

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20 best Blood red orange cocktails

You may have thought that winter months in the northern hemisphere were confined to the likes of cauliflowers, leeks and brussels sprouts but it's also

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Mandarine Napoléon Cocktail Challenge

We're looking for the best new cocktails that harness the vibrant flavours of Mandarine Napoléon Liqueur, which is a rich blend of Mediterranean mandarines,

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White Cuban

A White Russian based on rum rather than vodka. Tends to be better with a charcoal-filtered light white rum rather than a more characterful golden rum.

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Pineapple Margarita

As advertised, a Margarita with pineapple fruitiness. If you have it, a splash of pineapple syrup helps balance while amplifying the pineapple flavour.

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Blood Orange Garibaldi

Why settle for a mere Garibaldi when seasonality allows for an even tastier blood orange version of the same cocktail.

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Lost Souls

Mezcal and beet juice sit well together in this delicious riff on a Straight-up Margarita.

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Sunstone

Bittersweet and herbal. Enjoy as an aperitivo or digestivo.

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Very Sexy

A fruity raspberry vodka sour invigorated by a splash of fizz.

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Fee Brothers

Fee Brothers are one of the oldest producers of cocktail bitters, and their hand-wrapped bottles adorn the world's best bars. During the cocktail dark

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