Bottling Cocktail Culture Craft Cocktails 
VinePair
DECEMBER 3, 2023
The rockstars in question — particularly the influential bartenders from the early aughts that served as the film’s “talking heads” — happened to be performing at a uniquely transitional moment within the industry, and were captured by a curious filmmaker seeking to bottle something that turned out to be lightning. The film was cinema vérité.
VinePair
JANUARY 9, 2024
A colleague, my wife, and I were leaving Baba au Rum, one of the oldest of the new breed of craft cocktail bars in Athens, with the idea of heading to The Bar in Front of the Bar, another leading saloon. Line’s hyper-DIY approach to mixology is a running theme within Athens’ cocktail culture.
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A Bar Above
JUNE 2, 2024
If you’re lucky enough to snag a precious bottle of Chartreuse right now, you probably know just what a feat that is. So what are you to do when your favorite cocktail calls for Chartreuse, but there’s none to be found? More on that in a minute.) Copyright A Bar Above Why is Chartreuse So Hard to Find Right Now?
VinePair
DECEMBER 1, 2023
Either way, there’s no denying that Luxardo has ingrained itself in modern cocktail culture with a single stone fruit. Each bottle of the brand’s Maraschino liqueur has a crest of a dove on it, which is meant to reflect the humble beginnings of the company. Luxardo was part of the craft cocktail revival in the U.S.
VinePair
SEPTEMBER 2, 2024
“I think this made people look at Midori again, but this time in relation to the quality of shochu and all these whiskies that weren’t really a thing in the States before the craft cocktail movement.” “As As craft cocktails push the boundaries of what bars can do, bartenders have been able to use Midori in unprecedented ways.
VinePair
SEPTEMBER 24, 2024
Often, distillers were just bottling bulk grain neutral spirit (GNS). Such transparency is valued by consumers who have been primed to expect it from other craft spirits, and distillers that embrace it are rewarded. Craft vodka is the hardest spirit to distill,” Shoemaker says. Plus it was easy to produce.
VinePair
JANUARY 4, 2024
Cheap, industrial-grade spirits and bottled mixes had cemented themselves as standard inventory, which Maloney says explains the maligned lower quality of ingredients and sweet-leaning ratios that tend to define the majority of drinks from the era. The view from behind the stick looked a little less glam.
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