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(Nick Garcia Photography)
Scotch Blended in the 'Miami Highlands'
A single bottle of Scotch whisky sold for more than $2.7 million last November. One bottle. It was a Macallan 1926, one of 40 bottles’ worth distilled in that year, aged 60 years in sherry wood and bottled in 1986. There are no tasting notes for this Read more
(World Red Eye for SOBEWFF)
The Art of Tiki Showdown Under Moonlit Skies
The year Prohibition ended, Hawaii was still two decades away from statehood, Miami Beach’s Art Deco Historic District was under construction and a fellow named Ernest Gantt taught America to fall in love with the exotic. He’d spent his youth Read more
The Transcendent Spirit of Japanese Whisky
There was dismay on the woman’s face at the next table. “This is … wrong! It’s … I don’t know, it’s wrong,” she said, and she put her glass down. “That’s not an old fashioned. I don’t know what it is.” Read more
(The Tag Experience)
Oh, Mama, Mamajuana is here in a bottle
In 1493, Christopher Columbus built the first intentional European settlement on this side of the Atlantic. That is, leaving aside Leif Erikson’s rather cold settlement on an island a bit closer to the North Pole than Nova Scotia. Read more
(Envato Elements)
It’s the Mule-tide Season
In traditional Chinese medicine, it’s said that ginger is a “warming” herb, with the power to drive away cold and dampness as it stokes your digestive fires a little bit brighter. Read more