Good Spirits News

DECEMBER 8, 2023

In 1996, Maison Ferrand Owner and Master Blender Alexandre Gabriel unveiled Citadelle Gin, the first handcrafted French gin. Creativity has been a defining feature of the brand since its inception and over the years, the portfolio has grown to reflect Citadelle Gin’s versatility. Overall, very lemon and juniper forward.

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VinePair

APRIL 5, 2024

The United Kingdom has a strong claim as the world’s gin capital. The Dutch may have originated the spirit when they created genever, but the English people’s love for the stuff brought the juniper-infused liquor to new levels. But in recent decades, a host of new exciting gin destinations have emerged, including the good old U.S.A.

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Advanced Mixology

JANUARY 16, 2025

Simple innovations like infusing common ingredients with exotic flavors can attract new and returning customers. Offer Nonalcoholic Options From August 2021 to August 2022, total sales of nonalcoholic drinks in the U.S. Holidays: Capitalize on unofficial holidays like World Cocktail Day and International Gin and Tonic Day.

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Cheers

DECEMBER 19, 2023

From infusing gin with chamomile and miso to washing creme de cacao with sesame, Webster — our 2023 Raising the Bar Award winner — finds new ways to include Asian ingredients in the city’s cocktails. She placed second in the first-ever 2022 National Shochu Competition in the U.S. at Bar Goto Niban in Brooklyn, NY.

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Spiritsfully

JANUARY 9, 2022

The trends that were already there in 2021 will continue in 2022. While recyclability and zero-waste cocktails formed the thrust of sustainable action this year, 2022 will see more initiatives shaped by a focus on how spirits are made. Tequila + Gin & vodka. I could have written the same article as last year. Now your turn?

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Cheers

JANUARY 23, 2024

The range of use is great — from sweet, creamy cheese foam garnishing a cocktail to hard cheese grated on top or even infused within spirits,” the report says. For example, Kimpton Shinjuku Tokyo is offering a Martini that features vodka infused with Japanese salmon jerky.

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The Whiskey Wash

AUGUST 22, 2024

Heritage Distilling Company’s Cocoa Bomb Chocolate Whiskey is a multi-award-winning expression, having already been awarded a Silver Medal from the ADI in 2022. The company produces a variety of spirits including vodka, gin, and rum as well as whiskey. This year, though, the whiskey achieved a Gold Medal. Old Tennessee Distilling Co.

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VinePair

JANUARY 7, 2024

Once restricted to a handful of botanical waters, alcohol-free options have expanded to include ready-to-drink (RTD) mocktails in large and small formats, convincing base “spirits” that mimic the profiles of traditional whiskey, gin, and apéritivos, and party-friendly formulas that offer a different kind of buzz. Agrestis Brooklyn-based St.

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VinePair

DECEMBER 1, 2023

After over 200 years of crafting high-end cherry-infused liqueurs, Luxardo has become synonymous with the Maraschino cherry. The process starts with the harvest of the marasca cherries, which are immediately put in an alcoholic infusion in larch wood vats along with leaves and branches from the same trees for up to three years.

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Cheers

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Here are 10 we rounded up for 2023, and here are the holiday drinks from 2022. Print Christmas Cup Course Drinks Keyword cranberry, gin, Ginger liqueur, lime Ingredients 1 ½ oz. Roku Japanese gin 1 oz. Aged rum infused with candy canes 1 oz. Heavy cream 2 oz.

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Cheers

APRIL 2, 2024

in 2022, ending the year at 17.4 Canadian whisky has unique differences among consumer demographics when compared to other whiskey categories, according to a 2022 MRI-Simmons USA National Consumer Study on the beverage alcohol that participants drank in the past six months. million 9-liter cases, and then fell 3.1%

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VinePair

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

A More Complete Cornucopia Gregory Gourdet, chef and founder of Portland Haitian restaurant Kann, opened its sister bar Sousòl in 2022 so his guests could have a heightened and more complete Caribbean dining experience with a special emphasis on Haiti.

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VinePair

DECEMBER 13, 2023

acquired two unique Coffey stills from Scotland, and has since honored their use with a line of fine whisky, gin , and vodka. Bombay Sapphire Premier Cru Bombay Sapphire played a large role in taking London Dry gin mainstream by dialing down the juniper and amping up clean, fresh botanicals through vapor infusion.

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VinePair

MARCH 20, 2024

7 spot on the World’s 50 Best list in 2022. Though they left shortly after, Moe and Juliette continue to focus on playful, thoughtful cocktails like “Melon, Cheese, and Pepper,” which marries an acidulated cantaloupe cordial with gin , mozzarella foam, and fresh cracked pepper. Cocktails are basically a language.

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VinePair

JANUARY 9, 2024

This was Line, launched in early 2022 by some of the same people who founded The Clumsies a decade ago. The drink is then finished with the more prosaic store-bought Fords Gin and Campari. It is made of Bulleit Bourbon , Coal Ila Scotch, ice cream, and “cigar,” which is actually a distillate of toasted barley infused with cigar smoke.

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VinePair

APRIL 1, 2024

The brand received a Best Whiskey medal in 2023 for its 2013 Bourbon and a 2022 Gold medal for its limited-edition 50-year Armagnac. A refreshing mixer that would pair perfectly with club soda, vodka, or gin for a particularly refreshing cocktail, the Cucumber Shrub delivers clean, bright notes derived from a fresh cucumber press.

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VinePair

MAY 12, 2024

Popular Cointreau Cocktails Martha Stewart’s Cointreau Kiss Cocktail Created and popularized by the icon in summer 2022, the Cointreau Kiss is ideal for sipping during aperitivo hours on hot summer days. The cocktail serves as a variation of the Pegu Club , and combines gin , Cointreau, Campari , and lemon juice.

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VinePair

JANUARY 22, 2024

Even so, the craze has given way to a broader love affair with classic Martinis, which are taking up such inauspicious forms as Martini (instead of Champagne ) towers, passed mini Martinis, and dedicated Martini lounges featuring gin and vodka with all the fixings to suit guests’ preferences. “If They’ll take one sip and just put it down.”

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Drinkhacker

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

It’s still barely above freezing where we are, but it’s only a matter of time before warmer weather hits us, and we start to migrate, ever so slightly, toward lighter, brighter spirits — namely gin. With that preface, here’s a look at the 10 best gins we tasted in the last 12 months. 94 proof. $80 84 proof. $43

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Imbibe Magazine

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Beginning with Valerie , opened in 2018, and followed by Madame George in 2022 and Lolita in 2023, Minaya has created three cocktail programs rooted in classic inspiration and driven by a near-obsessive DIY ethic. It’s a jasmine-infused Margarita variation with acid-adjusted orange juice and a house-made peppercorn salt on the rim.

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VinePair

JANUARY 9, 2025

Price: $37 / 750 mL bottle The Free Spirits Company The California-based Free Spirits Company crafts five non-alcoholic alternatives to popular spirits bourbon , gin , tequila , red vermouth , and a red aperitif along with a collection of mocktails.

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Spiritz

DECEMBER 19, 2024

However, the scenario is changing with consumers demanding premium and even super-premium rums as also white rums that infuses the flavours of other rum-producing nations. Short Story was launched by Third Eye Distillery as a portfolio of three white spirits in October 2022 with Pankaj leading the product as its Brand Director.

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VinePair

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Agave spirits, in their myriad guises, enjoy similar billing, as well as eye-opening gins, vodkas with distinctive character, and a healthy showing of sugar- and grape-based distillates. Unabashedly coconut-forward, this flavored rum is infused with cut and dried flesh of the fruit (hence the name), and bottled at 40 percent ABV.

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VinePair

DECEMBER 24, 2024

No matter how many bottles of gin , bourbon , or tequila your collection boasts, you can say goodbye to most of the worlds most iconic cocktails without these relevant supporting actors. Switch the Negroni s gin for bourbon and youll soon be sipping on a Boulevardier. Become acquainted with it via the striking Sloe Gin Fizz.

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VinePair

APRIL 2, 2025

In Chicago, Culics quince eau de vie joins carrot-infused mezcal, celery root liqueur, Gentian aperitif, and dry vermouth in an earthy Farm Stand Negroni at all-day bar Truce. George Spirits in September 2022, amid giant, uncovered bins of just-picked organic Bartlett pears. At Wicked Rabbit in Omaha, Neb., All you have is that fruit.

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VinePair

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

It’s all very tantalizing, esoteric, somewhat mysterious stuff and it’s no wonder so many people (myself included) were eager to read more about this far-flung company that was making neither whiskey nor gin nor vodka but, instead, “freeform spirits.” The 27 percent ABV spirit was, like all Empirical releases, uncategorizable.

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