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lemon camomile cocktail

Celebrate this never ending winter with this comforting libation!

Honey Syrup

  • ½ cup clover honey
  • 1 cup water

In a small sauce pan, combine honey and water. Bring to a boil and then
simmer for about 15 minutes, until the syrup reduces to about one cup.
Remove from the heat and let steep until cool. Refrigerate for up to a week.

Cocktail

  • 1 ounce Cointreau Chamomile Liqueur
  • 1 ounce Plymouth Gin
  • ¾ ounce Honey Syrup 
  • ¾ ounce fresh squeezed and strained lemon juice

Pour ingredients into a shaker glass filled with ice. Shake and pour
into an old-fashioned glass filled with ice. (Try one large ice cube.)

i’ll take manhattan…

We are starting the new year with the Manhattan, the quintessential American cocktail. For more variations watch the next video. Salut!

cocktail

  • 2½ ounces Michtner’s Rye
  • ½ ounce Dolin Rouge
  • 1 dash Orange Bitters

Pour ingredients into a shaker glass filled with ice. Stir and pour
into a martini glass. Garnish with a Luxardo maraschino cherry.

Wine or whiskey?

Which would you rather have, a glass of wine or a dram of whisky?
What if you didn’t have to choose?gm_private_collection

With the rising cost of barrels for making single malts, distillers are turning to cask-finishing for a richer, more complex spirit. Casks that previously held Sherry are the most sought after for finishing scotch, but with a real scarcity of these, distillers are now using casks that previously held a variety of different wines.

Of this usually limited category of single malts, my favorite is Gordon & Macphail’s Private Collection Wood Finish Linkwood Cote Rotie 1998 45%. With a golden amber color, sweet vanilla on the nose, sweet and peppery on the palate, it is truly a perfectly rounded and balanced scotch. My idea of what a Speyside malt should taste like. If you see a bottle don’t hesitate. In fact, the whole Private Collection is worth exploring.