Words by Simon Difford
What has become known as the cocktail renaissance, the period when skilfully crafted and balanced cocktails were rediscovered by bartenders and embraced by Discerning Drinkers at large, properly took off in the 1990s. However, its real beginning dates back to the mid-1980s and the fathers of contemporary bartending, Dick Bradsell and Dale DeGroff.
Dick created the Vodka Espresso in 1983; it is the earliest cocktail from the modern bartending age that has proved enduring – particularly in its Espresso Martini form – so is also the oldest cocktail to appear in this collection of cocktails to emerge during this period.
Contemporary classics are cocktails:
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