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The history of the Zombie cocktail is a story of recipe archeology unrivaled not only in the Tiki space, but likely within the entire study of cocktails and their history. A Donn Beach original, the Zombie recipe was shrouded in deliberate secrecy since its inception, largely...

As we approach Valentine’s Day, there’s one food and flavor on everyone’s mind - chocolate. Ideas of chocolate cocktails evoke decadent, dessert mixes like the Chocolate Martinis. The beauty of the category is that it is populated by drinks like this, but also many more. Chocol...

Wine is old. You know this. But did you know it’s this old? Like, older-than-the-concept-of-money old. Older-than-the-written-word old. In Georgia (the country, not the place where Waffle House reigns supreme), people have been making wine in giant buried clay pots called kvevri for about 8,...

For the past few weeks of cocktail features, our mixing has been largely thematically focused. We’ve gone through the progression of winter cocktails by mood, the full range of escapism, bargaining, and acceptance, and we’ve had a lot of mixological fun doing it. This week, we’...

By now, many people are familiar with the background of Uncle Nearest and the connection to Jack Daniel. Public awareness first came about with a 2016 New York Times article that publicized the then little known fact that Jack Daniel learned how to make whiskey from an enslaved man of color....

I always feel there’s different stages to winter cocktails. There’s denial, wherein escapist fantasies of tropical beaches step in to keep out freezing realities, and Grenada’s Calabash cocktail was our feature on that front. Then there’s bargaining, when you figure if it’s goi...

The Wine This isn’t just a wine you drink—it’s a wine you want to drink. The 2023 Clos Fornelli La Robe d’Ange Rouge is the kind of bottle that makes you rethink what everyday reds should taste like. Made from Corsica’s Sciaccarellu grape, it strikes that perfect balance bet...

Corsica is the kind of place that feels like it exists in a glitch. You know it’s there, but you’ve never really thought about it. Technically, it’s part of France, but only in the way that a kid with a fake ID is technically 21. Corsica doesn’t care about your idea of “French sophistication”...