Cocktailians

Author: vidiot

  • Vesper Virgin (not to be confused with Virgin Vesper)

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    I recently had the very welcome opportunity to visit Virgin Atlantic's Clubhouse at JFK.  I'd expected upscale hotel-ish food and drinks, but they did far better than that.  The drinks menu featured a decent selection of wines, and I started my visit with a glass of Mumm NV Champagne.  But when it was dinnertime, I…

  • Vesper Virgin (not to be confused with Virgin Vesper)

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    I recently had the very welcome opportunity to visit Virgin Atlantic's Clubhouse at JFK.  I'd expected upscale hotel-ish food and drinks, but they did far better than that.  The drinks menu featured a decent selection of wines, and I started my visit with a glass of Mumm NV Champagne.  But when it was dinnertime, I…

  • Drinky Linky

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    Some interesting stories I've run across lately: The Atlantic reviews the cocktail resurgence, focusing on a Boston bar; The Bitter Truth is coming out with a sloe gin! About.com's cocktails guide has added this humble site to its blogroll (thanks!); Noilly Prat is changing their US formula, and making it the same as their European…

  • Jack Rose

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    Cocktailian Rachel Maddow demonstrates the Jack Rose for New York magazine:

  • Jack Rose

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    Cocktailian Rachel Maddow demonstrates the Jack Rose for New York magazine:

  • Pipeline Brands’ Cocktail Jam – Highlights

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    Last week, Pipeline Brands invited Vidiot & I to one of their Cocktail Jams, where the distributors, promoters, and other somehow-accidentally-invited aficionados took over the bar downstairs at Pranna on Madison Avenue for a barkeep's version of an open mic night.  Your two local correspondents were drafted into serving duty early in the evening, when…

  • Pipeline Brands’ Cocktail Jam – Highlights

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    Last week, Pipeline Brands invited Vidiot & I to one of their Cocktail Jams, where the distributors, promoters, and other somehow-accidentally-invited aficionados took over the bar downstairs at Pranna on Madison Avenue for a barkeep's version of an open mic night.  Your two local correspondents were drafted into serving duty early in the evening, when…

  • Drinky Linky

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    A few cocktail-related links for your holiday perusal: the NYT on the punch revival; 33% of surveyed chefs say that "mixologists and signature cocktails" will be the number-one trend in restaurants in 2009. (Hopefully this means good, balanced mixology and not cloying vodka drinks); I thought this site was an interesting idea — you can…

  • Drinky Linky

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    A few cocktail-related links for your holiday perusal: the NYT on the punch revival; 33% of surveyed chefs say that "mixologists and signature cocktails" will be the number-one trend in restaurants in 2009. (Hopefully this means good, balanced mixology and not cloying vodka drinks); I thought this site was an interesting idea — you can…

  • MxMo Submission: Tippecanoe Sparkler

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    This month's Mixology Monday theme is "Spice."  Craig at Tiki Drinks & Indigo Firmaments is hosting, and says "Spice should give you plenty of room to play – from the winter warmers of egg nog, wassail and mulled products to the strange and interesting infusions of pepper, ceubub, grains of paradise, nutmeg — what have…