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Cocktail of the Day
23rd of October 2025

Today is iPod's birthday, so we are drinking a Appletini (Sour Apple Martini).

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Salted Caramel Espresso Martini

A riff on an Espresso Martini with flavours of salted caramel and vanilla.

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Salted Caramel Apple Martini

Sweet and sour apple and rich salted caramel.

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Scotch Salted Caramel Sour

A cocktail that delivers exactly as its name promises.

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Salted Caramel Rum Old Fashioned

Mix yourself one of these and settle back in a comfy chair for a comforting late-night tipple.

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Beesou Honey Aperitif

Beesou is a bittersweet honey aperitif blended from British honey and natural botanicals, including safflower extract, which gives Beesou its distinctive

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Del Maguey Single Village Mezcals

Del Maguey was created by Ron Cooper, an artist who grew up in Ojai, California and started his career in Los Angeles during the late 1960s. Within a decade,

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Autumn / Fall Cocktails

Summer is fading, leaves are starting to scatter the ground and the weather is turning chillier. It's not yet time for winter warmers, but crushed ice-charged

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Christina Mercado

For Christina Mercado, who recently won the 2025 Altos Tahona Society Competition, her entrepreneurial future has been a long time in the making. She first

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Sherry White Negroni

A delicious, relatively low alcohol, bittersweet palate sharpener. As is the norm for Negronis, many will expect and perhaps prefer this cocktail to be

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Iron Cross

I started with a Ferra China take on a Sazerac and six experimental cocktails later, ended up with this more iron-influenced Old Fashioned. I enjoyed the

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Piper Plane

Scotch whisky adds delicate peaty notes to this excellent riff on the usually bourbon-based Paper Plane.

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Roman Sour

A balanced and pleasing bourbon-laced sour with coffee and almond. (A lemon zest twist produces a fresher, drier cocktail, but orange is perhaps more harmonious.)

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Caribbean Boulevardier

A rum and coconut riff on a classic Boulevardier.

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Coconut Mojito

The rum gives the coconut an almost toasty note in this nutty riff on a classic Mojito.

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Aegean Sunrise

Fruity coconut with a splash of Greek sunshine spirit.

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Pumpkin Spice Margarita (PSM)

Just as the name promises, a lightly spiced, pumpkin-flavoured Margarita.

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Brazuca Remedy

Bittersweet and complex with underlying cachaça character. Perfect as an aperitivo.

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