Drinks

Gin Palace bartender brings out vermouths

Melbourne bartender Shaun Byrne has been getting a taste for vermouth – and so he ought to, given he’s spent a good five years at Melbourne’s venerable ginstitution, Gin Palace. Here he has teamed up with French winemaker Gilles Lapalus to bring bars their very own Australian vermouths.

Classic: Pearl Diver’s Punch

Butter in a cocktail you say? Well yeah. You’ve likely had a whole raw egg in a flip, tried a ‘fat washed’ spirit before or even warmed your cockles with a Hot Buttered Rum. Butter in a cocktails? It ain’t no thing – though it can take some experimentation to perfect.

Astronomical Ardbeg!

Ardbeg, purveyors of peaty pleasures from Islay, have become the first Scottish distillery to conduct experiments in space.

G’Vine Gin

Showing delicate, sweet floral notes on the nose with a subtle spicy warmth.

Red Bull: the new Editions!

From September 2012 Red Bull will be available in a new range of flavours: the Red Edition with the taste of cranberry, the Blue Edition with the taste of blueberry and the Silver Edition with the taste of lime.