Summer is the season for festive and refreshing (if slightly frivolous) imbibing with great friends. I originally made this frivolously festive tipple a couple years back for the adherents of the Bacchic Villa after finding the recipe in an issue of Imbibe Magazine. Apparently this marvelous potation is the creation… Read More »Champagne Whiskey Punch
Owing to a concatenation of circumstances, I now realize that I haven’t had a new post in far too long. Those same circumstances are now compelling me to make the first post ever without a post–ironic in light of the fact that I have several drinks photographed but not written… Read More »Sangria
As promised, this is going to be my second (and final for a while) post of festive, holiday cocktails. Last time we did Dale Degroff’s Royal Gingersnap. This time we are going to do one from the December, 2011 issue of Imbibe Magazine called “You’ll Shoot Your Eye Out”. This… Read More »You’ll shoot your eye out, kid
I think for the next couple of weeks, we’ll take a bit of a departure from our usual aesthetic and relive a couple our more whimsical holiday jocularities. After that, I promise, we’ll get serious-for at least a while. So our first stop on Santa’s barhopping express (I guess when… Read More »Famous Riffs
Admittedly “Limoncello Fizzy Sangria” is a bit of a deviation (some might even go as far as deviant) from the usual vintage cocktail vibe of this blog. I can only offer two items in my defense… summer and patio. For me, if you combine those two, you wind up… Read More »Limoncello Fizzy Sangria
Tonight is one of those great summer evenings. There’s a cool breeze blowing in off the Sacramento River delta. The blackberries in the sorbet are at their sweetest. The perfect cocktail to round out this evening, a Kir Royale. The first time I ran across this drink was a tweet… Read More »Kir Royale