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Remember When Bacardí Thought a Tequila-Rum Hybrid Would Be the Next Big Thing?

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So went spirits critic Robert Whitley’s 2002 review of Ciclón, a just-released Barcardí product that combined the brand’s Gold Rum with “blue agave” tequila and a “hint” of natural lime juice. The spirits giant’s own motto was a little more blunt: “90% rum, 10% tequila, 100% un-be-lievable!” “ It’s new, it’s hip, it’s a mere $14. ”

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The Best and Worst Bravolebrity Booze Brands, Tasted and Ranked

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So, we got to work tracking down every line we could find, from Vida Tequila to Loverboy. While the lineup — which sold to Beam Suntory in 2011 — has since expanded to include several other cocktails, wines, vodka, and even salad dressings, we stuck to the OG Marg. tequila boom. tequila boom.

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Raising the Bar: What It Takes To Succeed as a Bartender Today

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The cocktail renaissance hadn’t happened yet, so the back bar was polluted with the usual suspects of flavored vodkas like Stoli Vanilla and Absolut Kurant along with dusty bottles of Galliano and Tuaca that probably hadn’t been opened in years. Compared with the drinks I made when I started out, it’s night and day,” she says.

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No Sparklers, Please: Has Bottle Service Fizzled Out?

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Since he started in 2011, he’s experienced firsthand the bottle service slowdown. It’s tequila, vodka, Champagne, in that order. Michael Garten is VP of Nightlife Operations for Tao Group, which runs venues like Tao , Hakkasan , Marquee , and, in New York City, PHD , Electric Room , Loosie’s , and Little Sister.

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Could Now Be the Time for Baijiu to Shine?

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When asked to think about the world’s most popular spirit, American minds will likely drift to liquors like vodka or whiskey , maybe even rum if they’re being ambitious. When Derek Sandhaus moved to Chengdu, Sichuan’s capital city, in 2011, he fell in love with the spirit, and the raucous culture surrounding its consumption.

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What Ever Happened to Old Crow, Once the ‘Pinnacle of American Whiskey’?

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billion today) was about landing DeKuyper’s Peachtree Schnapps, then the hottest liqueur in America, the second best-selling bar order in the country (after vodka), and the base of such era-trendy cocktails as the Fuzzy Navel and Sex on the Beach. Ostensibly, this $545 million deal ($1.5 And sell it would.

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The 25 Most Important Tequilas of the Last 25 Years

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As people partied like it was 1999, they were almost certainly drinking vodka, which at the time accounted for about a quarter of the spirits market. But it was tequila that I think, ultimately, would define drinking in the first quarter of the 21st century. Craft beer was just on the precipice of booming.

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