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Holiday season means one thing around Drinkhacker HQ: boozy advent calendars galore! This offering from Portland, Oregon’s Straightaway Cocktails is a new one for us: 12 single-serve 100ml cans of its ready-to-drink cocktails. giving you access to a different cocktail to get you through the 12 days (or nights) of Christmas. Six of the cocktails are...
Until quite recently, high quality Marsala wine rarely made its way to the USA. Some mediocre varieties were imported, most intended merely for cooking purposes. But Florio Wine Cellars, the dominant producers of the style, is trying to change that. I previously reviewed one of their dry, well-aged Marsalas and was very impressed. Today we try two...
The Dominican Republic’s Brugal is back with round two of its Colección Visionaria line, Edicion 02, Coffee. Like the Edicion 01, Cacao release, this rum uses Brugal‘s unique “Aromatic Cask Toasting technique” to infuse barrels with flavor without actually dosing them with a physical liquid or even a solid additive. The secret is toasting coffee beans...
While it can be hit or miss, Beam’s Little Book series, which is built around the idea of blending whiskeys in sometimes unusual ways, is always a fun diversion from the usual whiskey season fare. Much like Booker’s, this year Little Book is taking the road less traveled and launching a new sub-series: The Infinite, “a perpetual tribute to three generations...
Launched by hedge fund manager turned socialite turned booze magnate Julie Macklowe, The Macklowe whiskey brand was designed to introduce the world to what a luxury American Single Malt whiskey could be — at least as Ms. Macklowe envisions it. To achieve that end, Macklowe didn’t exactly scrimp: The operation sources its whiskey from various locales,...
Italy is a world of wine with twenty different official wine regions, each of which deserves serious attention. Naturally some get more than others, and today we are trying four wines from three regions in the south that are often overlooked by wine drinkers in the U.S.: Sicily, Puglia, and Abruzzo. Let’s give them a try. 2022 Tenuta Regaleali Cavallo...
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