Tasting Notes – Hendrick’s Gin
January 13, 2010 – 11:27 am | No Comment

Hendrick’s is a singular gin that makes an extraordinarily clean martini (that actually uses vermouth) yet has the flavor sophistcation to be sipped neat or over one or two cubes of ice.

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Tasting Notes – Hendrick’s Gin
January 13, 2010 – 11:27 am | No Comment
Tasting Notes – Hendrick’s Gin

Hendrick’s is a singular gin that makes an extraordinarily clean martini (that actually uses vermouth) yet has the flavor sophistcation to be sipped neat or over one or two cubes of ice.

Tasting Notes – Ting Grapefruit Soda
October 13, 2009 – 1:01 pm | No Comment
Tasting Notes – Ting Grapefruit Soda

You may not know that grapefruits are native to Jamaica. You also may not know that since the mid 1970’s, Jamaicans have enjoyed the great taste of Jamaican grapefruit with bubbles in the form of …

Tasting Notes – Noilly Pratt Dry Vermouth
August 23, 2009 – 10:37 pm | No Comment
Tasting Notes – Noilly Pratt Dry Vermouth

I was recently asked how long a bottle of dry vermouth is good for once it’s opened.  I said, I wasn’t sure, that I never had the stuff around long enough to find out.  The …

Tasting Notes – Patron Silver
August 23, 2009 – 1:40 pm | No Comment
Tasting Notes – Patron Silver

What is the tequila you drink when you can drink virtually any tequila? Patron Silver. It is just so smooth and flavorful that it can often turn a non-tequila lover into a devotee.
Patron Silver is …

Tasting Notes – Bluecoat Gin
August 18, 2009 – 11:30 am | No Comment
Tasting Notes – Bluecoat Gin

Down with the British! Down with the Redcoats  with their London dry gins! It’s time to be revolutionary! Or so the folks at Philadelphia Distilling are hoping you will be. To the growing market of …