VinePair

MAY 1, 2025

Over almost 10 years of tasting and recommending tequilas at VinePair, weve watched the category grow and evolve, ultimately becoming one of the best-selling and most popular spirits in the U.S. And tequila , specifically, is facing something of a reckoning: Are there too many celebrity brands?

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Chilled Magazine

JANUARY 16, 2024

The Big Apple, as the city is ironically nicknamed, is seeing a renaissance of classic cocktails like whiskey sours, martinis, and highballs. Other NYC spots have also added creative drinks spotlighting the apple to their menu, like Foxtail’s Honey Baked Apples, Lindens Apple Shiso Highball, and Altair’s Roasted Apples.

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Cheers

DECEMBER 19, 2024

In addition to intense competition from tequila, domestic whiskey and the ready-to-drink (RTD) segments, brandy and Cognac had to contend with economic pressures, as inflation put a crimp in some discretionary spending. Volume consumption for the brandy and Cognac category declined 10.2% in 2023 to pre-Covid levels of 12.8

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VinePair

JUNE 3, 2024

In its standard form, the tequila – triple sec-lime juice concoction is the third most popular cocktail in the world , and the most ordered in the United States. The easy-to-make cocktail calls for just tequila, triple sec, and lime juice, though its simplicity should not be underestimated. ounces of fresh lime juice.

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VinePair

JANUARY 17, 2024

We did a lot of work that I am incredibly proud of before closing for good in 2020, for the same reason all sorts of bars closed at that time. Wildly refreshing on its own and excellent bolstered with tequila, I hope you’ll give it a try at home and use this format for further extract production. Briefly stir to combine.

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Imbibe Magazine

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Modeled after a 1920s train car, Platform 18 serves cocktails like The Gibson Girl (gin or vodka, dry vermouth, sake, orange bitters, and lemon oil) and 54th Street Club (popcorn-infused reposado tequila, Cointreau, lime juice, togarashi, and pandan). Highball’s Land of Mountains. Bitter & Twisted’s Solero.

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Imbibe Magazine

DECEMBER 11, 2024

After Solomon and Pope’s departure in 2020, the hotel brought on Sanchez, an award-winning bartender and owner of beloved local bar Black Swan Saloon , to reopen the underground cocktail lounge. Mol Colada: mezcal, reposado tequila, apple, mole spices, and coconut cream.

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