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DoMA Interior + Exterior Photos by Sara Hanna These new additions join DoMAs award-winning lineup, including 2024s Gin of the Year from Tales of the Cocktail, and set a new standard for quality, smoothness, and flavor. DoMA is excited to introduce its first Bourbon and Rye Whiskeys, now available for purchase.
The Maison was acquired by the Piffaut family in 2022, making it the third family at the helm since 1874. Normindia Gin ½ oz. Nouaison Gin ½ oz. Gabriel Boudier London Dry Gin Club Soda Seaweed to garnish Preparation: Combine ingredients in rocks glass with ice. They are a must try for summer. Aviation Ingredients 1 ½ oz.
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Once the star of the cocktail scene, gin has never regained momentum since vodka took off in recent decades. But based on the number of new craft gins and unique expressions hitting the market, and a few key gin acquisitions from major spirits players, the U.S. is warming to gin once again — for real this time.
One of the only bars where I regularly order a vodka cocktail (the Local Stranger, with vodka, Averna, ginger, yuzu, and honey), Achilles Heel continues to hit the mark more than a decade later. Bar Americano The raison d’être at Bar Americano is aperitivo hour.
The blend of Tozai Blossom of Peace sake, Cointreau, white cranberry, saline, and lime featured Haku, a vodka made of 100% Japanese white rice. The craft gin is a balanced blend of six distinctive Japanese botanicals — hence its name, which means “six” in Japan — combined with eight traditional botanicals.
I love sitting at that bar with a lentil salad and the Clear Conscience cocktail,” Bailey says of a drink made with muddled cucumber, ginger, vodka, and fresh lime juice. The choose-your-own-adventure custom Gintonics menu features 16 gins from Spain, India, Japan, and beyond, plus a rotating list of eight or more tonics.
In 2020, generational family member Ronald Dodge, Executive Vice Chair, handed the reins of the company to industry veteran David Ballew, who was subsequently named President and CEO in 2022. Big Gin was created by bartenders for bartenders. We ask him to tell us more. Talk to us about Hood River Distillers, its history and heritage.
The United Kingdom has a strong claim as the world’s gin capital. But in recent decades, a host of new exciting gin destinations have emerged, including the good old U.S.A. One pivotal player in the spirit’s stateside evolution: Aviation American Gin , a homegrown brand that found celebrity fame.
As part of the original pilot project, three of Pernod Ricard’s spirits brands – Beefeater London Dry gin, Havana Club rum and Absolut Vodka – were successfully deployed in ecoTote format and dispensed in venues using co-branded SmartPour technology.
importer until it was acquired by Brown-Forman in 2022. by volume) and continues to expand its portfolio, which also includes New Amsterdam Vodka , E&J Brandy, RumChata , Camarena Tequila, RumHaven, Stratusphere Gin, The Dalmore Scotch Whisky , Tequila Komos, Don Fulano Tequila, Horse Soldier Bourbon, Amaro Montenegro , and Condesa Gin.
Helps your guests celebrate those friendships and use International Friendship Day on 30 July as an excuse to serve a rather special vodka. Premium Vodka. has attained 147 industry awards, making this 100% European brand the world’s most highly awarded vodka. Vodka views the UK as one of its next big growth areas.
And while some of the cocktails on this list feature carbonation, more basic cocktails like Vodka Sodas, Tequila Sodas, and Gin & Tonics were not included, nor were hard seltzers. This 26 percent ABV interpretation of the crushable gin cocktail delivers a wonderful mint aroma, which is balanced on the palate by lemon juice.
The trends that were already there in 2021 will continue in 2022. While recyclability and zero-waste cocktails formed the thrust of sustainable action this year, 2022 will see more initiatives shaped by a focus on how spirits are made. Tequila + Gin & vodka. I could have written the same article as last year.
Empirical is an ‘uncategorized’ spirits company, so it allows us the freedom to experiment with really interesting flavors and not have to be stuck in a gin box or tequila box or whiskey box,” says Lars Williams, Chef/Distiller & CEO, Empirical. They are 42% ABV, and available online and in select New York and California markets.
Here are 10 we rounded up for 2023, and here are the holiday drinks from 2022. Print Christmas Cup Course Drinks Keyword cranberry, gin, Ginger liqueur, lime Ingredients 1 ½ oz. Roku Japanese gin 1 oz. Vodka 2 oz. Crystal Head Aurora vodka 2 oz.
Heritage Distilling Company’s Cocoa Bomb Chocolate Whiskey is a multi-award-winning expression, having already been awarded a Silver Medal from the ADI in 2022. The company produces a variety of spirits including vodka, gin, and rum as well as whiskey. This year, though, the whiskey achieved a Gold Medal.
Nikka Coffey Vodka Back in the ‘60s, Nikka Whisky Distilling Co. acquired two unique Coffey stills from Scotland, and has since honored their use with a line of fine whisky, gin , and vodka. Profile-wise, the gin remains in the realm of London Dry, but those distinct ingredients ensure it has a unique and memorable personality.
The use of synthetic nitrogen fertilizer is unsustainable,” wrote the authors of a 2022 research paper published in the academic journal Scientific Reports. Peas might not be recommended (or even legal) for Scotch production, but they can work fine as the base for gin and vodka.
Launched in 2022, The TAG Global Spirits Awards recognize the best distilled spirits in the world. The rye expression has won multiple awards, including Double Platinum at the Ascot Awards in 2022. also produces Silver Dollar American Vodka. Woody Creek does not only make rye whiskey, but also bourbon, vodka, and gin.
For Paragon Brands, this is the latest acquisition in a long line of major new brand distributions, following Żubrówka Vodka, the third-largest vodka brand worldwide and fastest-growing major vodka in UK retail, and Heaven’s Door whisky, Bob Dylan’s first and only consumer brand partnership in his 50-year career.
That lasted until November 2022.” From 2017 to 2022, craft spirits sales went from $3.7 We switched in 2022 to entrench. s One Eight Distilling, which made bourbon , rye , gin , and vodka , shut its doors at the end of March. We switched in 2022 to entrench. billion to $7.9 It’s not that at all now.
The Swedish distillery will launch in the UK with its debut Gin and Aquavit following its partnership with Speciality Drinks. This marks its first market expansion since global industry figure and master distiller, Bex Almqvist launched the distillery in 2022. The traditional London dry gin influences Nordic Dry Gin.
Credit: Jeff Brown But what’s invisible to the naked eye are the highly technical calculations and formulas that have powered the bar, a project from restaurateurs David Hess, Aiden Carty, and Justin Hauser, since its fall 2022 opening.
The brand received a Best Whiskey medal in 2023 for its 2013 Bourbon and a 2022 Gold medal for its limited-edition 50-year Armagnac. Rocket Vodka is American-made, created in small batches from a blend of California-grown Fuji and Golden Delicious apples. Spirits Awards is a great place to start. Best in Show Winners — L.A.
Port & Tonic (Summer 2018) Credit: Brent Hofacker – stock.adobe.com In May 2018, media predicted the Port & Tonic would “ sweep the nation ,” with some even declaring it to be the new Gin & Tonic. cocktail bar 12 Stories, which swapped out grenadine for muddled raspberries and spiked the concoction with vodka and Cointreau.
A Japanese Gin & Tonic,” they respond, hands already busy prepping the next drink. Sake, despite failing to take off as predicted in the early 2010s, has experienced a tremendous rise in the last decade with export volumes shooting from 14 million liters per year in 2012 to almost 36 million liters in 2022. What is this?”
We’re talking about global sales hitting over $30 million in 2022 (US dollars). To me, it offers a distinct alcohol flavor similar to that of vodka mixed with Chartreuse. ounces Gin 1 ounce Sweet Vermouth.75 75 ounce London Dry Gin.75 ounces Gin.5 Strain into a chilled coupe glass. 75 ounce Green Chartreuse.75
From its four-grain, high-rye, and sherry cask-finished bourbon to its Bespoke Gin (finished in Kentucky rye barrels) and Liddel Vodka (which is filtered through Kentucky limestone) , this distillery has built a reputation for a focus on quality and innovation that truly sets it apart.
In July 2022, Tales of the Cocktail Foundation announced a partnership with the Singapore Tourism Board to highlight the culture and talent that abounds within the island nation of Singapore. The first cocktail menu was crafted around popular drinks that people often call for such as vodka sodas, beer, and gin and tonics.
In July 2022, Tales of the Cocktail Foundation announced a partnership with the Singapore Tourism Board to highlight the culture and talent that abounds within the island nation of Singapore. The first cocktail menu was crafted around popular drinks that people often call for such as vodka sodas, beer, and gin and tonics.
Be it the craze for flavoured vodkas that is now a distant memory or the gin revolution that has swept through India in more recent times. In 2022, tequila ousted whiskey as the second most consumed spirit in the USA, and was poised to overtake vodka as the most consumed spirit in the country in the year 2023.
The Savor Spear Straight Bourbon Whiskey has won several accolades since its release in 2022, including a Gold medal at the 2023 San Francisco World Spirits Competition. Having grown up around spirits, she carries on her family’s legacy with the distillation of high-quality bourbons, gins, and vodka.
They continued the same success story in West Bengal, Odisha in 2022, and in Karnataka in 2024 too, which made the international alcobev brands more accessible across these states. She said there was still some stereotypical representation in some alcoholic beverage ads.
Additionally, she’s received many accolades, including: Woman of the Year, 2022, California Assembly District, by Frank Bigelow; Calaveras County Professional of the Year in 2016; and in 2023, the Calaveras County Fair and Jumping Frog Jubilee received 24 industry awards from the Western Fair’s Association.
Until fairly recently, gin was considered an “old person’s drink” here in the U.S. The Covid-19 pandemic and its stay-at-home order only accelerated gin’s journey from professional back bars onto home bar carts nationwide, with volume sales swelling by 2.5 last year, gin continues to battle it out on American soil. in July 2017.
Founded in 2022, the New Orleans Spirits Competition is an international spirits competition that celebrates and recognizes best-in-class spirits from producers around the world. Additionally, the prestigious Distillery of the Year award was unveiled today at Tales of the Cocktail in New Orleans.
The Caprese Martini at Jac’s On Bond in New York, with Grey Goose vodka, Lustau Blanco, balsamic vinegar, a pinch of salt, and garnished with skewered cherry tomatoes. For example, Kimpton Shinjuku Tokyo is offering a Martini that features vodka infused with Japanese salmon jerky.
Premium Vodka has garnered 145 industry awards, making this 100% European brand the world’s most highly awarded vodka. The brand owner immediately switched to European production over two years’ ago, in February 2022, as soon as the attacks by Russia on Ukraine began so that TOVARITCH! Don’t be misled by the Russian brand name.
in 2022, according to Statista, reaching a value of $4.8 IWSR also expects RTDs to make incremental volume gains from 2022 to 2027, expanding at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 1%. Cocktails and long drinks will see their share of RTD volumes grow 4% across the key markets from 2022 to 2027, IWSR says. Death & Co.
Founded in 2022, The New Orleans Spirits Competition (NOSC) is an international spirits competition celebrating and recognizing fine spirits being produced around the world today. These recognize the top spirit entered in each category, such as Best New American Gin, Best American Single Malt, and Best Overproof Rum.
Founded in 2022, The New Orleans Spirits Competition (NOSC) is an international spirits competition celebrating and recognizing fine spirits being produced around the world today. These recognize the top spirit entered in each category, such as Best New American Gin, Best American Single Malt, and Best Overproof Rum.
In 2022, he and Tamika Hall published Black Mixcellence , a book featuring recipes by dozens of Black mixologists. Its been a marathon, not a sprint for him, says Shannon Fischer, a publicist who first met Asare-Appiah when he was brand ambassador for ULuvka vodka in the late aughts. Lately, however, his profile has risen.
Popular Cointreau Cocktails Martha Stewart’s Cointreau Kiss Cocktail Created and popularized by the icon in summer 2022, the Cointreau Kiss is ideal for sipping during aperitivo hours on hot summer days. The cocktail serves as a variation of the Pegu Club , and combines gin , Cointreau, Campari , and lemon juice.
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