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Review: Indie Rums of Roaming Road, 2024 Releases

Drinkhacker

French brandies are coming next. The palate offers a similar experience: Hugely fruity, with bold raisin notes up top that evoke a fresh brandy. This offers a tiki-friendly nose of pineapple, with layers of sweet, tropical aromatics and plenty of nutmeg and ginger to back it all up. Another tiki bomb ready for floating.

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A Guide to Gifting the Best Cocktail Books to Everyone on Your Nice List

VinePair

Here, we’ve rounded up curated recommendations for the best cocktail books to gift from Cider Mill Press (an imprint of HarperCollins Focus), a publisher of high-quality, elegant books on wine and spirits. While tiki drinks are notoriously complex, these streamlined renditions deliver maximum flavor without most of the fuss.

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We Asked 19 Bartenders: What’s the Most Underrated Winter Cocktail?

VinePair

Shaken apple brandy, good pomegranate grenadine, and lemon. Apple brandy can be underwhelming on its own, but in a Jack Rose it screams, um… apple! We make a pot and build a solera of spice and brandy additions each day. There is something very nostalgic about it, and it’s a great way to use a day-old bottle of red wine.”

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The Cocktail College Podcast: The Fog Cutter (Live From Sunken Harbor Club)

VinePair

You probably know it from the fine wines in Jerez, Spain, and you’ve probably noticed that it’s become something of a trend these days in distilled spirits. In the famous words of tiki godfather Donn Beach, “What one rum can’t do, three rums can.” Light up the tiki torches and tune in for more. Well, for Zacapa No.

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We Ask Owner Diego Loret De Mola about Barsol Pisco

Chilled Magazine

This is achieved through natural fermentation of the wine, which is then distilled only once in Charentes-style copper alembics. Classic cocktails like Negronis, Martinis, and tiki drinks are becoming popular choices for pisco, along with many bars creating their own signature pisco cocktails with local and seasonal ingredients.

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The Top 10 Rums of 2023

Drinkhacker

You can also search multiple stores at wine-searcher to find the best prices on all these products and more. The experiment was a massive success, and while it’s hard to fathom putting a $500 rum into a tiki drink, I did it anyway. It’s altogether a wall of flavor that ultimately finds its way to a vibrant, tiki party.

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8 Hanukkah Cocktail Recipes

A Bar Above

Traditional Wine: Spiced Wine Drink While Hanukkah does not actually use wine in any of its specific traditions, many Jewish festivals include wine, so it’s common enough for this cocktail not to be too out of place. Strain into a Nick & Nora glass or wine glass. Hopefully, it’ll stay lit!)