The most common style of champagne is 'Non-vintage' (NV) and this tends to be base wine available from each house and most reprehensive of its house style. A blend of wines from several different ...

London is known for its numerous gastro pubs, establishments that offer great restaurant-style food in a pub environment, without the white table cloths but with traditional British cask ales to wash ...

There are essentially two types of still, the pot still and the column still. Of the two, the pot still, also known as the alembic still, is the simplest and not unlike a giant kettle, indeed the ...

The Dry Martini, a blend of dry gin (or vodka) with a hint of dry vermouth and perhaps orange bitters is one of the quickest and simplest cocktails to make. However, due to the myriad of different ...

The author of that seminal work, The Fine Art of Mixing Drinks, David Augustus Embury was born on this day in 1886 in Pine Woods, upstate New York. He Of all the cocktails to have its very own day, ...

Absinthe adds a distinctive flavour to cocktail and long drinks and is widely called for in vintage cocktail books. However, two ritualistic styles of serve are synonymous with absinthe. Both drip ...

The author of that seminal work, The Fine Art of Mixing Drinks, David Augustus Embury was born on this day in 1886 in Pine Woods, upstate New York. He Of all the cocktails to have its very own day, ...

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The author of that seminal work, The Fine Art of Mixing Drinks, David Augustus Embury was born on this day in 1886 in Pine Woods, upstate New York. He Of all the cocktails to have its very own day, ...

While the exact origins of the Mojito cocktail and its name are lost in time, some trace it back to 1586 and a medicinal drink named after Sir Francis Drake. Drake was one of a band of privateers ...

Tequila is a distilled spirit made from the cooked and fermented juice of the agave (pronounced 'Uh-Gah-Vee'), a spiky Mexican plant which resembles a cactus. Traditionally the process is labour ...

View 1 cocktail using the UB Retro Fizzio 1920 Coupe 9oz. The Urban Bar produces these large flat-bowled 'frizzio' glasses in a variety of styles, from clear to ones with delicate etchings, such as ...