For as long as I can remember, I insisted any cocktails requiring dry vermouth as an ingredient be made with Noilly Pratt.
Tag: aged
Dowd On Drinks: Diversity in a Glass
Product diversification is becoming more commonplace in the beverage world. And, we’re speaking not just of what’s in the bottle, but where it is produced.
Dowd on Drinks: Whisk(e)y Season Dear To Ireland, Scotland
The portal is about to open on a season dear to the Gaelic and Celtic folk of Ireland and Scotland and, indeed, their millions of descendants all over the U.S.
Dowd On Drinks: But Is It Beer?
Non-carbonated. Resealable bottle. Aged in used sherry or bourbon barrels.
Dowd On Drinks: Extra-Aged Scotches Cross The Line
They’re doing very interesting things these days in Scotland’s Glen of Tranquility, maturing whiskies in non-traditional ways.
Dowd on Drinks: Aged Tequilas Take Us To New Places
OK, let’s get right down to it. At what point does lengthy aging in used barrels turn tequila into something that, while perhaps still an excellent product, no longer is tequila?
Dowd on Drinks: The Great Tequila Flap Gets Hotter
I was spending a few relaxed hours with a group of people in an old cantina in dusty downtown Tequila, Mexico, discussing the explosion in the town’s namesake liquor among U.S. consumers and the merits of its various styles.
Dowd on Drinks: Scotch That Acts (And Tastes) Its Age
NEW YORK — With the United Nations building looming in the background and busy ships plying the adjacent East River, the whisky maker from Wick, Scotland, was soaking in his first visit to the United States.
Dowd on Drinks: Tequila Diversifies
Mexico is in the midst of the biggest boom in its four-century history of mass producing tequila.