Just in time for the upswing in summery cocktails, Midori has unveiled a new look bottle along with a slight reduction in its sugar content.
The new bottle is a result of extensive research with consumers and has a premium modern look with a frosted finish and a sleeker bottle shape.
Not ones for resting on their considerable laurels, the award-winning Eau de Vie is releasing their very own brand of small batch bottled cocktails. It’s something that has been on the cards for a while, according to owner Sven Almenning.
Only a few years ago the number of mezcals out in this country was minimal, and either hard to find or hard to drink (that is to say, they were craptacular). Now though there’s a verifiable monsoon of mezcal sweeping our shores with the latest addition being these mezcals from Casamexico.
We wrap some of the latest in drinks news: Playboy getting into the vodka market, a couple of new spiced spirits, a name change for Independent Distillers and getting drunk without taking a drink.
Campari Australia have welcomed premium English gin, Bulldog Gin, into their stable of brands. The agreement to distribute the super premium London dry style gin took effect on the 1st of November.
With all the talk about mezcals these days, could it be that tequila has become mainstream? Has the zeitgeist moved on? Has tequila sold out?
We gathered together a panel of five bartenders to plough through a tasting of six tequilas to find out.
Think Spirits has had a cracking year in 2013, and they’re not done just yet. They’ve announced that they are taking on board the popular Evan Williams range of bourbons.
Here’s one for the arty among you — champagne house Dom Perignon has teamed up or, as they say in the art world, collaborated with American artist Jeff Koons.
Frank Meier was the head bartender at Paris’ The Ritz during the 1920s and 30s. We referenced him — and this great book, The Artistry of Mixing Drinks from 1936 — in our piece on the Black Velvet. Meier was German by birth, worked in NYC and was working against the Nazis during their occupation of Paris…
For many modern wine drinkers, sweet wines are little more than an introductory drink to our more popular dry table wines. This is at odds with the quality and variety of sweet wines available though, and some basic knowledge of these different styles (and they are very different) can help you introduce customers to a brilliant array of wines.
If you want to be one of the first in the country to have a bottle of the new Australian made gin from Stu Gregor, Matt Jones and Cameron Mackenzie — Four Pillars Gin — now is your chance.
Things have been going gangbusters for popular rum brand Mount Gay of late. Not only have they released a new expression — Mount Gay Black Barrel (keep an eye out for our December blind tasting panel and their thoughts on this great new rum) — they are also celebrating their 310-year anniversary.