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One For The Holidays: Sailors In Your Mouth
Every year before Christmas I am busy searching for wine to go with the Christmas dinner and since I am a bartender I try to mix things up a bit by throwing in a Cocktail or two. This year I selected...
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Spirit Smack Down: It’s Time For Champagne
After the champagne tasting at the C&D forum meeting I thought I had enough of champagne for a while. Well, I was wrong. And because of that I will provide you with a comparison of three...
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The Mexican Old Cuban: Tamacun
I am a thief! I stole this recipe from onemartini.com. – Well, to justify my deed: I didn’t really steal it. I just used their recipe as an inspiration and changed a some of the ingredients to create...
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Tiki Month’s Final: The King And All His Melons
This is another Tiki drink without any rum. However, what it lacks in rum, it makes up for in more than one way! I don’t even know where to start: it is a complex composition of brandy, sherry and...
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Champagne H. Billiot Fils
After my small Champagne tasting last year I was totally won over by the standard cuvée from Henri Billiot. That is why I decided to find out if their other bottlings are any good. If you love...
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‘I Won’t Lie’– It is time to say goodbye to gin!
The whole gin thing was fun for a while, but I feel like the time has come to say goodbye! Of course I am somewhat exaggerating, I will still be enjoying the occasional gin and because I am a...
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Cult Logic – Studer Williams Superieur Eau De Vie
A few months ago I promised you that I would concentrate more on eau de vies and their application in cocktails. Well, many articles later I’ve got distracted a bit, but still every once in a while I...
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Spirited News Christmas Special 2016
The latest Spirited News were supposted to be the last for this year, but I have a special treat for you! I stumbled upon the latest Drinks Syndikat box! Ever since the guys featured my “Metallic...
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Unbottled: Tarlant Tradition Magnum
The second bottle of wine I will present to you this year also comes from the champagne region. Today, besides the excellent cuvée, the special feature this time is the size of the bottle. The Tarlant...
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Boulevardier Sbagliato – Baker’s Bourbon Aged 7 Years
Keeping the topic of Negroni style drinks for another week, we are looking at a slightly altered Boulevardier recipe. Ok, basically I changed every ingredient except the bourbon. However, since the...
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Unbottled – Griesel Extra Brut Rosé
One of my good resolutions for this year was to write more about wine. So, I am starting with sparkling wine. In a manner of speaking from common ground. After my close look at different champagne...
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Unbottled – Delamotte Blanc de Blanc
Sometimes you just crave a glass of champagne. In addition, I wanted to try the Delamotte Blanc de Blanc for a long time now. The fact that the Delamotte champagne is as close as you can get to the...
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A (Dry) Champagne Tasting
The festive season is approaching fast, and therefore it seems like the perfect time for a little champagne tasting! Since our taste tends towards drier and more natural wines, we focused on small...
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Home Bar Awards 08/22 – Hey Snow White
The Home Bar Awards Challenge for August is all about cocktail mash-ups. So, I decided to randomly chose two drinks of the Difford’s Guide’s World’s Top 100 list. Luckily, with the P*** Star Martini...
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Unbottled – Benoît Lahaye Blanc de Noirs
Apart from the Doctor Cocktail, I also celebrated my PhD with some champagne. I actually bought the bottle a year ago just for this occasion. I highly recommend reserving certain bottles for special...
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In Evening Air – Hell or High Water Rum
To be honest, I am not a big fan of spiced or flavoured rum. Still, I am reviewing a bottle for you and came up with a great cocktail using it. On top of that, this honey and orange flavoured rum...
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Dry January 2023 – In Winter
Let us start with Dry January. I have a non-alcoholic cocktail forn you that is great for celebrating. It uses a great, high-quality non-alcoholic pear Cidre and an excellent Rooibos tea. Joerg...
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Into the Red – Barth Pinot
I am always late to the party. In this case, I missed Negroni week with my second post which I especially prepared for this occasion. I made a Negroni variation I had in mind for a long time now....
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Flourish and a Spoil – Merwut Vermouth
When I came up with my drink for Negroni Week 2023, I also created an Americano version. Similar to my ‘Into the Red’ I used pinot noir sparkling wine in the drink. This resulted in a sparkling, but...
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Ten-year anniversary post
This is it! To the day ten years ago, I started this blog and posted my first cocktail recipe. While I kept doing what I love, nowadays it is about finding the time to shoot the pictures,...
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