VinePair

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

With Rose Mary’s Croatian-Italian focus, that house-made infusion fits perfectly alongside imported bottles of slivovitz and plenty of customers who love it. It wants to carry through in a cocktail.” The article Does Plucky, Plum-Based Slivovitz Stand a Chance in Modern Cocktail Culture? appeared first on VinePair.

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Cocktail Culture Bitters Rum Promoter 111

VinePair

JUNE 6, 2025

Watching the best bartenders all over the world with sloppy jiggering technique is weighing on me. Many bartenders look down upon the art of technical free pouring (using timing techniques and cuts to control the amount of liquid poured from bottles), but the use of jiggers has become lackadaisical. Pun intended.

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Bartender Bartending High Volume Head Bartender 52

VinePair

APRIL 3, 2024

The early wave of modern Tokyo cocktail bars defined the distinctive style of drink preparation and service known as Japanese bartending — and the type of establishments in which it could be found — while pushing forward the idea of a thriving cocktail culture from within an Asian metropolis. Nor should they. “To

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Bartender Bartending Hospitality Cocktail Culture 89

VinePair

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Of course, we’re living in a world where people also slap the word moonshine onto the labels of fully taxed and government-approved bottles of alcohol for sale. says Keith Motsi, head bartender of Virt at the Four Seasons Hotel Tokyo at Otemachi, giddy at the notion of quashing faux speakeasies.

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Bar Club Alcohol Bartender 104

VinePair

JUNE 4, 2025

Besides well-executed classics like a split-base Willett and Cognac Sazerac, the current movie-themed menu features drinks like the Pineapple Express, a clarified cocktail combining rye, aquavit, pineapple, orange juice, and orgeat. World-Class Cocktails at Distillery Bars appeared first on VinePair.

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Bar Cocktail Culture Bartender Bartending 102

VinePair

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

And we also serve my personal favorite, and the secret best deal on the menu, which is the Fiat a shot of Jameson served with a bottle of Moretti Italian lager as a backer. It’s only $8, which is, shhhh, cheaper than we charge for both a shot of Jameson or a bottle of Moretti on their own. 1 house cocktail, the Shy Lady.

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VinePair

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

When the modern cocktail renaissance kicked off in the early aughts, it came with a newfound appreciation for long-ignored liqueurs and amari , many of which have since become common cocktail ingredients. Likewise, some of these bottlings have become bartenders handshake shots. LOpossum.

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Liqueur Bartender Shooter Bartending 101