VinePair

JULY 25, 2024

After placing a footed glass filled with frothy, pink liquid atop a thick marble bar, the bartender gently pours something glittery and purple over my drink from a tiny pitcher. This isn’t a trendy craft cocktail bar with mustachioed mixologists and $30 cocktails. Fridays used to be the cocktail bar,” Duff says.

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Rum Bartender Bartending Mixology 137

Australian Bartender

APRIL 3, 2024

The bar at Mesa Verde boasts one of Australia’s largest collections of agave spirits, inviting guests to explore the diverse world of tequila and mezcal. From expertly crafted cocktails like the Portrait of Maria to the fiery Ghostface Killah, the bar menu offers something for every palate.

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Tequila Craft Cocktails Bar Hospitality 65

Bar Magazine

APRIL 30, 2024

To be served both outdoors and inside the bar, the menu is the latest chapter to team’s signature cocktail journey and a testament to collaboration, with 12 carefully crafted cocktails, all of which have been creatively developed with a specific emphasis on sustainability, a particular passion of Bar Manager Gaston Fusco and his team.

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VinePair

JULY 9, 2024

When I tend bar, I gravitate toward this tequila for many reasons. It is affordably priced, bold enough to stand up to powerful flavors when crafting cocktails, and nuanced enough that it can be enjoyed neat or on the rocks.” Sarah Kornegay, bar supervisor, The Katharine Brasserie & Bar , Winston-Salem, NC.

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Tequila Bartender Bartending Head Bartender 105

VinePair

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Good ice, which is to say clear cubes carved by hand or produced by specialty machine, not only ensures a quality cocktail but also one that meets or exceeds guest expectations. Or can bars still find success without the investment? But is good ice really all that important?

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Bar Bartender Bartending Liquor 116

VinePair

MAY 13, 2024

They are also the new East Village tastemakers shifting the cocktail bar scene’s vibe to something that infuses modern technique and skill with the casual, punk-rock ethos of the East Village dives of yore — albeit with less graffiti in the bathrooms. This shift may look surprising on the surface.

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Vodka Bar Highball Hospitality 119

VinePair

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Shots are the bar scene’s greatest equalizer. It doesn’t matter if you’re in a fancy craft cocktail spot serving $20 Negroni riffs or a seedy dive bar with sticky floors and the faint smell of urine wafting through the air: Shot glasses are always on hand, waiting to be filled. Our go-to is a 50/50 of rum and amaro.

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Bartender Bartending Head Bartender Bar Manager 105

Drinkhacker

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Virginia’s Copper Fox Distillery has been mixing up impressive craft cocktails at both their Sperryville and Williamsburg locations since the state loosened restrictions on on-site beverage sales (which still aren’t loose enough, if you ask most Virginia distillers).

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Beverage Sales Bar Manager Bar Management Bitters 79

VinePair

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

“I think this made people look at Midori again, but this time in relation to the quality of shochu and all these whiskies that weren’t really a thing in the States before the craft cocktail movement.” “As As craft cocktails push the boundaries of what bars can do, bartenders have been able to use Midori in unprecedented ways.

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Liqueur Craft Cocktails Bartender Bartending 105