1 A Glass Of Champagne A Day For A Year: Day 23 If it grows together, it goes together. Is there a better combination with French food than French wine? An American steak with a California Cabernet? This is the stuff dreams are made of! Most of us also know pairing an Italian Chianti... about 5 hours ago From DRINKS ARE ON ME 1 A Glass Of Champagne A Day For A Year: Day 22 It saddens me to announce South African wine producer Graham Beck died July 27 at age 80. According to Mail & Guardian Online: “Beck’s involvement with South African wine began with his purchase of the Madeba farm in Robertson, a property... about 23 hours ago From DRINKS ARE ON ME 1 A Glass Of Champagne A Day For A Year: Day 21Sometimes not even good Champagne can save a bad situation. This past Friday night I drank more of the lovely Ruinart Rosé Champagne at my favorite restaurant & ate a fabulous dinner. Unfortunately, my companion - who’s lovely on the... 1 day ago From DRINKS ARE ON ME 1 Bar Eras in San Francisco and BeyondI have a great-looking four-page story in the August Eat + Drink issue of 7x7 Magazine. The story splits up old bars and new bars inspired by old bars into five types/eras: Barbary Coast, Speakeasy, Martini Bar, Tiki Bar, and Fern Bar. In each... 2 days ago From Alcademics 1 Beefeater Summer Edition Gin ReviewIt's just dawned on us that we might be at risk of letting the summer slide by without posting our review of the Beefeater Summer Gin the company sent along to us a couple weeks ago, so please allow us to rectify this situation. So, without... 2 days ago From Liquor Snob 1 Tales 2010 SummaryWow, what a week. This year was bigger and better than last year. In fact there were so many people I wanted to have a drink with that there just was enough time. But I did manage to drink my fair share and chat with a lot of people. This year I... 2 days ago From Art of Drink 1 Mayahuel, Death & Co. Wins Spirits Awards at Tales of the Cocktail The Tales of the Cocktail convention culminates every year in the annual presentation of the Spirited Awards. Last year, there was some carping within the cocktail community that too many of the winners hailed from New York, with bars like Pegu... 3 days ago From Off The Presses 1 Ferrari Formula One driver Fernando Alonso of Spain rewards...Ferrari Formula One driver Fernando Alonso of Spain rewards himself with a Champagne money shot on the podium after winning the German Formula One Grand Prix in Hockenheim, Germany, Sunday, July 25, 2010. 4 days ago From DRINKS ARE ON ME 1 Blogger Party! Blogger Party!I am part of a group of highly organized cocktail bloggers. Here are some pics from the house where many of them are staying. The bar there is killer! [Visit Alcademics.com for the full post.] 5 days ago From Alcademics 1 A Few Tales of the Cocktail PicsI am at a cocktail convention. It is awesome. Follow me on Twitter @alcademics. Here are some pictures with which to entertain yourselves while I am away. The first seminar I attended. How to be a cocktail consultant. A seminar. [Visit... 5 days ago From Alcademics 1 A Glass Of Champagne A Day For A Year: Days 17, 18, 19 & 20 Though I haven’t been good about writing about it, I have been good about keeping up my quest of a glass of Champagne A Day For A Year! Apparently this is rosé week for me as I enjoyed the Graham Beck Brut Rosé for three days before... 5 days ago From DRINKS ARE ON ME 1 Powell & Mahoney Cocktail Mixers Arrive for Review Powell & Mahoney is a Massachusetts-based company that makes pre-bottled, micro-batch cocktail mixers in multiple varieties. They're also the creators of the five bottles that just arrived at the Liquor Snob offices, which we will be reviewing... 6 days ago From Liquor Snob 1 Gulf Spill Cocktail Recipe It's pretty rare that we go topical, but it's kind of hard to ignore something as big as the BP oil spill, and we'd feel remiss if we didn't chime in. Our natural tendency is to ass off about the state of things, but you've got that pretty well... 8 days ago From Liquor Snob 1 Ravi DeRossi to Open Gin Palace in Los Angeles Ravi DeRossi, the stealth player in the East Village cocktail scene boom, is now casting his gaze west.DeRossi is looking to open a new gin-oriented bar in the City of Angels. It's name will be Gin Palace, after the one-time term for the lavish... 9 days ago From Off The Presses |
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Month1 Bacardi True Originals 4: The OutsiderWe're starting to get into this Bacardi True Originals series, showcasing different types of bartenders. We can see where they're going with it. We have to admit we were nervous for this one after we saw perfectly good bar utensils start flying... about 18 hours ago From Liquor Snob 1 Trina Sturm Bartender profile Trina Sturm is a cross between a sexy stew in a Mad Men episode, a kindhearted biker-gang chick, and a diner waitress who calls you “hon” and magically appears whenever your coffee needs a warm-up. It’s a formidable... about 20 hours ago From Drink Boston 1 The Fourth Annual Tales of the Cocktail Swag AwardsAnother year, another Tales of the Cocktail convention in New Orleans, another chance to rank the swag! I started giving the swag awards in 2007. 2007 Tales of the Cocktail Swag Awards 2008 Tales of the Cocktail Swag Awards 2009 Tales of the... 1 day ago From Alcademics 1 The Debut Menu for the Coffee Program at The Randolph Never like Irish Coffee. And, hence, I tended to take a dim view of the idea of the "coffee cocktail." That is, until I sampled the quite wonderful inventions being served up at The Randolph. The Little Italy bar recently opened its doors to... 2 days ago From Off The Presses 1 Official Drinking Day du Jour Lately, it seems to me, the popular marketing device of the Official Drink Day has gotten out of hand. You can't rub your eyes and reach for your morning cup without soon discovering that the day dawning before you has been reserved especially to... 2 days ago From Off The Presses 1 Cocktail Menu for Zero ZeroOpening on July 28th in the former Azie space in San Francisco is Zero Zero, a new pizza restaurant with lots of Latin cocktails, a few classics, and a couple of punches. The Bar Director is Joel Teitelbaum, recently of Credo. I got hold of the... 2 days ago From Alcademics 1 Absinthe Gets More Specific It was absinthe expert Ted Breaux who gave the U.S. its first legal absinthe in nearly 100 years when he helped develop, with Viridian Spirits, the formula for Lucid Absinthe Supérieure, the by-now-familiar black bottle with the cats eyes... 3 days ago From Off The Presses 1 Every Drink I Had at Tales of the CocktailI just returned from New Orleans for Tales of the Cocktail, a cocktail convention attended by many of the world's top bartenders, drink writers, PR representatives, and superenthusiasts. I think this was my favorite year of the convention to... 3 days ago From Alcademics 1 My To Do List Just Got A Little LongerCourtesy of Wikipedia, below is an alphabetical list of major Champagne houses, the year each was founded & where as well as their premium label & parent group. I’ve crossed out the ones I’ve already tasted during this project & it looks like... 3 days ago From DRINKS ARE ON ME 1 Ne-Yo's Champagne LifeYes, it was a beautiful day It’s gonna be a beautiful night Break out the Champagne Everybody get a glass Let’s start it off sexy What do you say? Uh, & all the ladies say (Uh-huh) Uh, & all the ladies say (Uh-huh) Think I... 4 days ago From DRINKS ARE ON ME 1 Mad Men and Drinking, Season Four, Premiere It's November 1964 at the start of season four of "Mad Men," and a lot has changed in the world of the series' characters. But not the drinking. They're still drinking. And drinking the same stuff.Ad exec and glamorous sphinx Don Draper has had... 5 days ago From Off The Presses 1 New York Gets a Genever Bar I've loved the idea of a genever bar ever since my first trip to Amsterdam in 1999, when I visited the ancient, hidden Dam Square bar Wijnand Fockink, and learned the ritual bending over your filled-to-the-rim, tulip-shaped glass of Dutch gin to... 5 days ago From Off The Presses 1 Paris Hilton Showers In Champagne People Magazine published photos of Paris Hilton on vacation arriving at a Champagne party in Saint-Tropez, France. Upon entering, she was doused with bubbles from a large-format bottle & was later photographed sipping Cristal while floating in... 6 days ago From DRINKS ARE ON ME 1 Twittering at Tales of the CocktailI am attending the Tales of the Cocktail convention in New Orleans this week so posts will be sporadic and probably weird. I am attempting to tweet every drink I have at the event, which is turning out to be an ambitious goal and I've only been... 8 days ago From Alcademics 1 Booze News: Garv's headed to NOLA Greetings fellow inebriates,Tomorrow morning I leave for New Orleans and my first Tales of the Cocktail!As I've mentioned previously, I'm moderating a "Hollywood Cocktails" seminar with co-presenters Cheryl Charming, Ted Haigh, and Alan Leonhard.... 8 days ago From Booze Movies 1 Another Bottle ChangeOld liqueurs just can't stop changing their bottles.First there was Drambuie. Then Benedictine. And Herbsaint. Now its Chambord's turn. The vessel is still a fat little orb it always was, but, "The crown is indicative of Chambord’s royal... 8 days ago From Off The Presses |
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