Drinking habits have changed for the better over the last several years. Drinking for effect, three martini lunches, and marathon sessions at the bar have given way to a much smarter and actually much classier style of cocktailing. We have...
Here is a shocker for you, 59% of every bottle of spirits you buy goes to taxes and across the country, states are proposing legislation to raise that amount. Not only does that tax affect you, the consumer, but it...
That is a big statement. Those words were first spoken by my business partner (author and drinks editor for Esquire Magazine) David Wondrich while laying the historical foundation for today’s explosion of interest in the culinary style cocktails. But then...
As the craft is returning to the profession of bartending and increasingly more establishments from hotels to independent restaurants and even the upscale chain restaurants are returning to real ingredients like fresh juices and classic recipes, we as consumers are...
There are many reasons why we fought the Revolutionary War … the old favorite from history, “no taxation without representation”… which, although not mentioned in our history books referred to England’s heavy handed Acts issued to wrest control of the...
Why say that? “I’ll have the usual.” The usual will give you security in the knowledge that you are getting a familiar product and maybe a product that you really enjoy… but that isn’t enough! Life is too short… Take...
Like many everyday wine drinkers, the thought of decanting a bottle of house wine never occurred to me and why would it? Isn’t decanting just for those special wines …the ones that are out of my price range? Well in...
Hosting a themed party and you want a drink to match? Maybe you are having a Blue Moon retro party with 50’s rock and roll and would like a blue drink to match; just look hard enough and you will...
I was recently at a bar when I looked down into my drink and part of a blue agricultural stamp on the skin of my lemon garnish was looking back at me. I wish I could say that this was...
No such thing of course… but is there? In the wine world glassware is chosen carefully when very special and very expensive wines are on the menu. I attended a seminar with Max Reidel, the fourth generation glassware maker/designer, and...
