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A Gin Collins made with lime juice, made suited to summer drinking by swizzling with crushed ice.
Fruity, with notes reminiscent of a muddled fruit or Wisconsin Old Fashioned.
Fresh, zesty orange with a pleasing touch of gin.
Mixed and served at cellar temperature, this is a beautifully balanced cocktail with cask-matured grappa combining brilliantly with the oloroso...
Choose your rum to suit your sherry, and this dry and bittersweet Sherry Negroni (or "Sheroni") will delight.
Minty fresh with nutty, vinous and almost toasted buttery notes from the sherry. A palate cleansing aperitivo or digestivo.
Starting with frozen serving and stirring glasses is key to the success of this tasty sherry-based Sazerac.
A simple, balanced and delicious aperitivo.
As the name might suggest, Greek spirit and sherry replace gin and vermouth in a Negroni. And what interesting substitutions they are!
I originally went against bartending convention and called for this cocktail to be shaken. The extra dilution and aeration created by shaking produces...
With London dry gin, as originally, this is a good cocktail, but it's better with the extra character and richness of an old tom gin. As the name...
Punchy rum with the established accompaniments of pineapple and lime, with a splash of coffee liqueur.
Alcoholic Strawberry Mivvi for grown-ups. What's not to like?
Hemp and root add bittersweet complexity to this non-alcoholic sour.
Looking at the recipe, you may expect this cocktail to be sweet. However, it's beautifully balanced and shows how well grappa and coffee sit together.
This pineapple mezcal sour with a touch of bittersweet carciofo (artichoke) amari is a a riff on Thad Vogler's Single Village Fix.
Elderflower-infused aromatic pisco freshened with citrus and served refreshingly over crushed ice.
A delicious trio of flavours meet in harmony. Tart ruby grapefruit and lemon, subtle bitterness, and rich elderflower.
Gin adds another layer of flavour to the usually vodka-based, bright and citrusy Ruby.
Aged Agricole rum sits brilliantly and harmoniously with the herbal bittersweet liqueurs in this late-night sipper.
Fresh, zesty and citrusy with an almost creamy mouthfeel, this grappa-based cocktail embodies the Itameshi cuisine concept, which combines Italian and...
Joerg Meyer's grappa-based riff on his own iconic Gin Basil Smash.
A simple variation on the vodka-based French Martini adding gin and vermouth to help justify its "Martini" name.
This 8:4:2 formula is a tad sourer than the classic sour proportions of 8:3:4 – two parts of the strong ingredient (gin), three-quarter parts of...