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Spirited Reviews

Tuesday 21 May 2013

I've just come back from the Manhattan Cocktail Classic where I sourced a curious collection of spirits and liqueurs. Samogon Camotoh Russian Grappa 45% alc./vol. P...

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New Bars in... London

Tuesday 21 May 2013

A new speakeasy from the team behind the Mayor of Scaredy Cat Town, plus a Victorian restaurant reborn for 2013. King of Ladies Man Address: The Breakfast Club, 5-9 B...

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Alexander & James

Tuesday 21 May 2013

Diageo recently took the unprecedented step of launching a website to retail its own luxury spirit brands. Alexander & James, named for whisky makers Alexander Walker II...

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Copa de Cava

Tuesday 21 May 2013

A new City bar claims to be London's first properly dedicated to cava. Copa de Cava Address: 33 Black Friars Lane, London EC4V 6EP Tel.: +44 (0)20 7236 1518 Type: C...


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Rekorderlig Summer Cocktail Competition

Tuesday 14 May 2013

Cider is the epitome of a British drink, originally made with home-grown apples throughout South Wes...

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Wray & Nephew: overproof rum can be a base spirit too

Tuesday 14 May 2013

It's one of the most recognisable flavours in the world of rum, it's practically cornered the overpr...

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Spirited Reviews

Tuesday 14 May 2013

A mystery whisky from Glenlivet, a gin by a pub company, a bright-blue minty sambuca, cherry-flavoured Southern Comfort and a fantastic Norwegian aquavit. Bols Honey Liq...

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Daily Cocktail

Tuesday 14 May 2013

Next week we'll be raising a toast across the Irish Sea to commemorate the Northern Ireland Peace Deal, enjoying a cocktail for King Henry VIII and lugging a towel around...

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An egg-shell-ent little gadget

Tuesday 14 May 2013

Here's something to get egg-cited over. This time-saving gadget is designed to make separating egg y...

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Bursting champagne myths

Tuesday 14 May 2013

The way most people pour it is wrong. And the glasses we drink it from are wrong. Think you know abo...

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The Mayor of Scaredy Cat Town

Tuesday 14 May 2013

Kate Jackson demonstrates the King Yellowman's Answer. Kate, 30, has been bar manager, or Mayores...

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New Bars in... London

Tuesday 14 May 2013

The first bar and restaurant has opened in London's tallest skyscraper, while a new townhouse-venue gives you five levels to choose from. Oblix Address: Level 32, The...

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Beer reviews

Tuesday 14 May 2013

Brews with bad attitude, an alcohol-free beer from Warsteiner, and a new ale from Sambrook's Brewery for Renaissance Pubs, marking its tenth birthday. Warsteiner Premium...

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Pint-sized Cocktails

Tuesday 7 May 2013

Sam Dunne, bartender at Rotary, near Old Street, demonstrates a pint-sized Margarita. Containing 120ml alcohol, the drink is not for the faint-hearted, but it's a rece...

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Sam Ross and Michael McIlroy

Tuesday 7 May 2013

Michael McIlroy and Sam Ross, long-serving bartenders of Milk & Honey, New York, on tearing apart on...

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Daily Cocktail

Tuesday 7 May 2013

Plenty to celebrate next week, and for a change it's mostly all positive. There's World Cocktail Day and Manhattan Cocktail Classic - just in case we needed an excuse to...

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Spirited Reviews

Tuesday 7 May 2013

A new gin from the accomplished Langley distillery, another from a small pot still in Brooklyn, and a curious collaboration between French and Japanese drinks-makers ar...

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Page of Shame: Kansas Clean Distilled Whiskey

Tuesday 7 May 2013

Our Page of Shame hall of fame has a new entrant. Step forward Kansas Clean Distilled Whiskey. Not f...

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New Bars in... London

Tuesday 7 May 2013

A cocktail bar at Libertine, the former Chinawhite, where the list has been created by the imaginative team behind Purl and the Worship Street Whistling Shop; and the rev...

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Top 100 Cocktails

Tuesday 7 May 2013

We continue our countdown of the world's top 100 cocktails - from the deliciously fiery to the simple and sweet including a potted history of how naval rations and scurvy...

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News Shots

Tuesday 7 May 2013

Selfridges relaunches Wine Shop plus new Harry Gordon's Bar Selfridges has opened a brand new Wine Shop on its lower ground floor, fully one third bigger and with more t...

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Heir to an icon:
The BACARDI LEGACY 2013 Cocktail Competition

Friday 3 May 2013

Bacardi Legacy is one of the few real 'Grand Slam' competitions in bartending, and is itself a succe...

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The Semi-finalists: building their
own legacy

Friday 3 May 2013

This year's 19 semi-finalists and their legacy cocktails showcased the creme de la creme of global b...

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The Grand Final: the winning cocktail for 2013

Friday 3 May 2013

Eight of the world's best bartenders made it through to the 2013 Bacardi Legacy final, their names p...

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