Today I’m pleased to share this news below from Frey Ranch Distillery, regarding their brand-spanking-new Uncut (aka cask strength) Rye. I am also happy to have received a bottle for review. Sharing below some bullet points from the news release, my review, and then the full release: My Review (Evaluated in the Neat tasting glass…
THE COGNAC HOUSE PARTNERS WITH CHINESE ARTIST XUE SONG TO RELEASE A LIMITED-EDITION GIFT SET NEW YORK, /PRNewswire/ — The House of Rémy Martin announces an exceptional partnership with renowned Chinese artist Xue Song to ring in Lunar New Year. Drawing on the Year of the Horse, Song reimagines Rémy Martin’s iconic Centaur for a limited-edition…
Last year I reviewed four bottled cocktails by Via Carota Craft Cocktail company and they were all winners: Negroni, White Negroni, Old Fashioned and Manhattan. Read that review here, and this is an excerpt: “From Wine and Spirits Wholesalers of America (WSWA) Access Live 2024 I had many opportunities to try new spirits…From the namesake…
A new-to-me and fun item I discovered at the recent Bar and Restaurant Expo were the Swizzle Stirrers from Roses Brands. Made of up different colored rock candy, attached to a stick, they can sweeten, flavor, add color to, and/or garnish any cocktail you dream up. Colors and flavors (names of which include the color…
Recently my pal and fellow gin lover Ashley Norris, aka @SipWithMe_LV on Instagram, turned me onto a brand new gin from a relatively new distillery in Las Vegas: Las Vegas Distillery Gin. I was thrilled to taste the gin on its own, and my tasting notes on that are below. I also tried the gin…
Have you noticed the change in this website? We went from Eve Wine 101 to Eve Wine and Spirits 101! Even though we started only writing about wine, when I obtained my certification from Wine and Spirits Education Trust (WSET) I had begun studying spirits. Most of you may have noticed my interests in gin…
At the Winter Fancy Food Show this past January one of the booths that caught my eye was Barsmith and all of the cool retro-looking bartenders in black and white on their labels for all of their mixers, garnishes, syrups and dehydrated citrus. I tried a few while learning a bit more about their products…
Never been to Trader Joe’s with a spirit list for Trader Joe’s cocktails from their newly minted book, The I Love Trader Joe’s Cocktail Book, but I was sure game to try! This new cocktail book is the very first one I’ve heard of where I can find all – or mostly all – of…
I recently received a press release regarding the winners of the 2024 International Whisky Competition. I was interested in one as it had a well-known single malt whisky in a ready-to-drink (RTD) cocktail: Best Whisky Based RTD: The Glenlivet Twist & Mix Old Fashioned Ready to Serve Cocktail (Pernod Ricard) This innovative cocktail impressed judges…
In this latest review, I was familiar with one of the spirits brands from Montenegro Gruppo: the Amaro Montenegro was the first Amaro I ever had, in a Black Manhattan where the bartender swapped out the sweet vermouth for this dark digestif. Montenegro remains one of my favorite Amari (the plural for Amaro) to this day,…