A Paloma for Every Mood
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MAY 17, 2024
9 Paloma cocktail recipes, which add everything from Campari to jalapeño to gochujang to the classic tequila drink.
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Drink of the Week: Stray Dog Wild Gin
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It took me a minute to comfortably talk about terroir without feeling like a parody of myself or drinks writers everywhere. But it’s a really useful way to analyze what you taste. The beverage business is rife with convoluted corporate ownership structures, so determining whether what’s in my glass reflects the land, people, and culture that it came from helps me cut through the noise.
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