Good Spirits News

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

SRP $59.99) BAYAB PALM & PINEAPPLE GIN This South African flavored gin is made with Nigerian & Ghanian palm sap, South African pineapple, and baobab from Ghana & Zambia. The Dominican sugarcane used for the rum was harvested from Barceló’s own cane fields. Available February 13, 2024 nationally.

Rum

The Whiskey Wash

JUNE 14, 2024

Jameson bills this expression, first released in 2018 and still going strong, as “the perfect gift for the whiskey lover in your life.” Beginning as a kitchen-table operation with a small still, Kinsale Spirit Company now produces gin and whiskey that is exported across the globe.

Whiskey

The Whiskey Wash

MAY 3, 2024

The San Francisco World Spirits Competition 2024 In this year’s competition, there were 787 Double Gold medal winners across all categories including bourbon, whiskey, gin, vodka, and liqueurs. MannCave Distillery is located in West Virginia and was founded in 2018. One to watch?

Whiskey

Good Spirits News

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Distilled in 2018 from the 2017 harvest, the whisky was matured for 5 years in a combination of 1st fill bourbon barrels and reused & recharred ex-bourbon barrels. It’s then “finnished” in OATH gin barrels, a brand owned by Finnish racing driver Valtteri Bottas. (SRP $59.99) Octomore 15.1

Whiskey

Tales of the Cocktail

MAY 6, 2024

oz gin (We use Monkey 47 but another “juicy” gin would also work.) She was the first Espolon Cocktail Fights National Champion in 2016, and after winning the Cocktail Fights Tag Team with Sharon Yeung in 2018, they founded Daijoubu, a Super Asian Cocktail Pop Up. Crazy Rich Lychee Martini: 1.25

Bartender

Tales of the Cocktail

MAY 6, 2024

oz gin (We use Monkey 47 but another “juicy” gin would also work.) She was the first Espolon Cocktail Fights National Champion in 2016, and after winning the Cocktail Fights Tag Team with Sharon Yeung in 2018, they founded Daijoubu, a Super Asian Cocktail Pop Up. Crazy Rich Lychee Martini: 1.25

Bartender

Good Spirits News

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

This vatting was then finished in casks from BCS’s 2018 Tale of Two Islands Rum, a Jamaican rum which was matured in peated Islay single malt barrels. LIGHTHOUSE GIN This expression replaces Lighthouse Batch Distilled Gin on the international marketplace. It was bottled at cask strength.

Tequila

Tales of the Cocktail

MAY 13, 2024

Created in 2018, BTB provides a platform to address challenges and opportunities within the global drinks industry including mental and physical health, intersectionality, substance use, sexual harassment, diversity, equity, and sustainability. Futures Lab The Future of A.I.

Speed Rack

Tales of the Cocktail

MAY 13, 2024

Created in 2018, BTB provides a platform to address challenges and opportunities within the global drinks industry including mental and physical health, intersectionality, substance use, sexual harassment, diversity, equity, and sustainability. Futures Lab The Future of A.I.

Speed Rack

Good Spirits News

OCTOBER 20, 2023

TANQUERAY GIN NEGRONI Tanqueray Gin Negroni is a ready-to-serve cocktail from Diageo’s The Cocktail Collection. It is a pre-mixed cocktail featuring Tanqueray Gin along with sweet red vermouth and bitter amaro. Rolling out nationally in fall 2023, this bottling is available in two formats: 350ml (4 servings) at $13.99

Tequila

Chilled Magazine

MARCH 4, 2024

Absinthe is a lot like gin, a distilled spirit with botanicals. Inspired by Empress Gin, Absinthia knew that if butterfly pea flower worked in gin, it would work in Absinthe. And that even some of the brands that claim the highest levels of thujone don’t contain ANY thujone when chemically analyzed.”

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VinePair

APRIL 22, 2024

In 2018, the three expatriates, along with Simon Dang, launched Ming River , a Sichuan-style baijiu produced at Luzhou Laojiao, the longest continuously operating distillery in China. The three cocktails featured baijiu stirred up with a variety of beers and ingredients like Chinola Passion Fruit liqueur, parsnip, yuzu, and jujube.

Liquor

VinePair

JUNE 26, 2024

Those skills were put to the test in 2018 when Haley won the National Championship of Speed Rack , the country’s preeminent speed bartending competition. Credit: Jeff Brown Syrups are followed by modifiers — liqueurs and the like — and finally spirits.

Speed Rack

VinePair

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

It’s all very tantalizing, esoteric, somewhat mysterious stuff and it’s no wonder so many people (myself included) were eager to read more about this far-flung company that was making neither whiskey nor gin nor vodka but, instead, “freeform spirits.” seems to be something that resonates with people.” Well, sorta.

Liquor

Drinkhacker

DECEMBER 28, 2024

Mine Hill Distillery can be found in the hills of Connecticut, where in 2018 it was seen fit to turn an old cigar factory into a distillery cranking out all manner of spirits, including bourbon, rye, vodka, gin, and even amaro. Eventually, a hint of coffee bean melds with some of the previously seen anise.

Gin

Drinkhacker

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

For more top gift ideas check out the archives and read our 2023 , 2022 , 2021 , 2020 , 2019 , 2018 , 2017 , 2016 , 2015 , 2014 , 2013 , 2012 , 2011 , 2010 , 2009 , and 2008 holiday guides. Gin – Renais Reserve Familiale Gin ($50) – I had to go all the way to London to get this stellar gin, but you can pick it up stateside now.

Alcohol

Cheers

MARCH 20, 2025

The botanical liqueurs used in spritzes and other aperitivo drinks actually started out as medicine, such as bitters for digestion, she noted. The rosolio category of botanical Italian liqueurs typically a neutral distillate infused with regional citrus, flowers or herbs, then sweetened and diluted was largely forgotten until 2016.

Mixologist

VinePair

JUNE 19, 2025

Massenez Garden Party Dried Tomato Liqueur, garnished with goat-cheese-stuffed charred olives. In 2015, Paul Hletko of Chicagoland’s FEW Spirits suspended a Chicago deep-dish pie in his gin still, making his own sort of pizza pechuga — perhaps truly the first ever. “It This was the Pizza Martini from The Flatiron’s Room.

IPA

Good Spirits News

MARCH 27, 2025

He has also triumphed in a number of competitions, including being awarded Chicago’s Patrn Perfectionist in 2018. Additionally, in 2018 she won the Italicus Bar Artist of the Year and in 2019 she bagged the US World Class Bartender of the Year awards.

Bartender

Imbibe Magazine

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Beginning with Valerie , opened in 2018, and followed by Madame George in 2022 and Lolita in 2023, Minaya has created three cocktail programs rooted in classic inspiration and driven by a near-obsessive DIY ethic. But at 45 W. The seasonal signatures are a collaboration among the bar team, says Minaya. We make everything here, says Minaya.

Gin

VinePair

JANUARY 9, 2025

Price: $37 / 750 mL bottle The Free Spirits Company The California-based Free Spirits Company crafts five non-alcoholic alternatives to popular spirits bourbon , gin , tequila , red vermouth , and a red aperitif along with a collection of mocktails. Agrestis Founded in Brooklyn in 2018 by the sons of Italian immigrants, St.

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