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Champagne December: Live Your Best Life.

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2017 has aged like a grease fire.

I’ve taken a notable break from documenting my cocktail and culinary adventures over the past year or so. During this time, I’ve experimented with many things, in...

Gin Tasting Notes: Magellan Gin

The requisite amount of time was spent suspiciously eyeing this gin on the shelf and examining its contents under strong lights to determine that indeed, this gin is blue. Fear not, this isn’t merely...

Gin Tasting Notes: Gordon's London Dry Gin

Today I sampled Gordon’s, one of the original grandfathers of London dry gin (since the late 1700s) and the dry martini, so much so that it featured prominently in many vintage martini ads (I’ve added...

Gin Tasting Notes: Broker's London Dry Gin

We’re long overdue for a Gin Tasting Note, Vacation Week Edition, which allowed me to languidly stroll the city’s new liquor megastore & line up the latest contestants. Today we have Broker’s London D...

Tasting Notes: Bourbon Edition

We interrupt our regularly scheduled Gin Tasting Notes to bring you a special Bourbon Edition. I've finally gotten my hands on something I've long coveted, Jefferson's Ocean, an extremely small batch...