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Dress Up Your Pet Day

Today is a day the internet was almost certainly invented for (sorry, Tim Berners-Lee): National Dress Up Your Pet Day.

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Amaretto Adriatico Zero

Amaretto Adriatico Zero is made with a distillate of Filippo Cea almonds from Puglia, Italy. It is a non-alcoholic amaretto with the familiar aroma of

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Torabhaig Allt Gleann Single Malt

The second expression to be released in Torabhaig's Legacy series of single malts, released July 2021 under the label 'Allt Gleann. Each release is bottled

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Mulled Over

Spiced vodka-laced port wine with a splash of rich orange liqueur, lemon juice and honey.

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Difford’s Guide to Cocktails Book 18th Edition

Our Eighteenth Edition hardback has 3,081 cocktail recipes, all accompanied by a photograph. It is a monster 656 pages, 6cm (2.3 inches) thick, and weighs

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Harvest Negroni

Apple brandy leads this bittersweet and herbal aperitivo, which is also great as a digestive or late-night tipple.

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Paper Boat

There are numerous rum-based riffs on Sam Ross' Paper Plane, some served tall with added juices and syrups, but at its simplest (as here), a Paper Boat

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Pompadour

Grassy rum agricole and sweet vinous Pineau de Charentes freshened with a splash of lemon juice.

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Negroni d'Amalfi

Limoncello's almost creamy lemon freshness its brilliantly alongside herbal bittersweetness in this riff on the Negroni.

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Roosevelt's Chrysanthemum

Rich and yet austere. Adapted from the Roosevelt Room's brilliant riff on a classic Chrysanthemum with dry sherry pitched alongside the usual vermouth.

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Amaro Lucano

Non-alcoholic and low-alcohol cocktails made with Lucano Zero Amaro.

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Blue Marge

Spicy smoky pineapple with hints of agave and bitter orange with balancing white wine acidy.

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Smoky & Spicy Pineapple Margarita

Smoked chargrilled pineapple laced with spiced agave.

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Spicy Corn & Pineapple

Harmonious flavours of spiced ripe pineapple and corn, freshened by underlying white wine acidity. Great served with spiced corn riba (corn riblets).

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Roasted Pineapple Thief

Chargrilled, grassy, smoky, honeyed and soured pineapple.

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Sorrento Mule

A super refreshing, zesty citrus, zingy ginger Mule

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Gin Basil Spritz

A basil-flavoured G&T with a splash of lemon freshness.

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Napoleó

Genever laced mandarin orange liqueur soured with lemon juice and freshened with mandarin soda.

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Bittersweet Sea-phony

Italian bitter liqueur served with tonic is one of our favourite thirst-quenching long drinks, here differentiated with Aegean-style tonic water.

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Three Cents Fig Leaf Soda

Three Cents Fig Leaf Soda captures the flavour of hand-picked fig leaves from a sunlit Greek island where fig trees flourish under a protected designation

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World’s Top 100 Cocktails

Our Top 100 Cocktails are generated by accessing the page view analytics from the international traffic by our one million monthly users to the over 6,000

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Cocktail Hall of Fame

The following 294 cocktails are the preeminent and best-known of the 6,000+ cocktails on Difford's Guide. Subject to ingredients, these are all cocktails

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Contemporary Classic Cocktails

Cocktails created after 1985 that have proved enduring and appear on bar menus or in publications beyond their city or country of origin are worth making

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Off White Negroni

A subtle but inspired riff on Wayne Collin's contemporary classic, White Negroni.

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