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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Experimentation is the foundation and the fun that being a good bartender is built on. John Pringle of Globe in San Francisco agrees. “I’ve been playing with St. Germain quite a bit lately,” he says. …
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Released in May of 1965, Maiden Voyage was Herbie Hancock’s fifth release as a band leader and followed the musically innovative and commercially successful Empyrean Isles. While considered to …
This was the Sazerac Cocktail I had at PDT in New York’s East Village. I’ve seen Sazerac recipes that call for rye or cognac but never both. Sean Hoard my bartender one night at PDT …
This outstanding drink hails from PDT in New York’s East Village , and is an example of trying to create a new classic from the ground up. It is based on Bols Genever, chardonnay and …
In San Francisco, where bitter liquers like Compari and Fernet Branca know significant local popularity and local bartenders create a range of concoctions to highlight their medicine-like characteristics, John Pringle of Globe Restaurant has created …
So, you’re throwing a cocktail party, and you’ve asked friends and colleagues to come. You have some spirits ready—and a lot of ice, too. There’s one thing you lack, however: cocktail bartenders. But, who says you need cocktail bartenders just to spice your party up?
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To American writer James Thurber, one martini is all right, two is two many, and three is not enough. But what about five? Will that change your life? While a true martini is made only …
So, you want to make a bellyful, a snootful, and an earful? Then you had better make sure your home bar is well-equipped. The three-martini lunch, according to former U.S. President Gerald Ford, is the …
