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Sweater Weather Cocktails

Posted by luxebeat | Cocktails, Featured, Lifestyle, Wine & Spirits |

As the sweltering days of summer lead into the chilly days of autumn our, taste in drinks changes as well. When it’s time to make the transition, there are a number of fantastic sweater weather cocktail recipes that you will want to mix up. From Earl Grey tea to apple cider, these libations show off the best flavors of the season. Winter Is Coming from The Hudson 1 oz Café Lolita 1 oz Selvarey Cacao 1 oz Cream Splash simple Shake hard and strain into coupe, garnish with ground nutmeg and clove Sailor Jerry spiced rum and Café Lolita...

Thanksgiving Cocktail Recipes

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With Thanksgiving dinner around the corner, there a few staples that must be on every table: turkey, cranberry sauce, stuffing and of course, pumpkin pie. While getting excited for all the delicious food, we’d like to focus our attention on the important part of the meal…the cocktails! Inspired by the brightest and best flavors on every Thanksgiving table, we’ve pulled together some delectable cocktail recipes for you to enjoy. Mulberry Fizz To whet your palate before the big meal, this refreshing Boodles Mulberry cocktail is inspired by traditional holiday sloe berries. Ingredients: 2 oz. Boodles Mulberry Gin 1 oz....

Cocktails in New Orleans

Posted by luxebeat | Cocktails, Lifestyle, Travel, Wine & Spirits |

We know you’ve tasted every alarming ingredient from baked beans to grasshoppers in your latest craft cocktails. But you’ve probably never sipped from the soul of a marvelous city. Alan Walter, the bartender at Loa in downtown New Orleans, has just released a new menu of fascinating, playful cocktails full of luscious, local botanicals. They’re modern New Orleans classics, liquid expressions of the peoples who have shaped this city. New Orleans’ architecture. Its food and music. Its theatrics and rituals. Its exuberant, irreverent culture. From Sicily to Senegal. From Venice to Vietnam. From Marseilles to Madrid. Don’t forget Haiti and...

Sparkling Ice Holiday Cocktails

Posted by luxebeat | Cocktails, Featured, Holidays, Lifestyle, Recipes, Wine & Spirits |

We’re excited to bring you even more cocktail recipes from SPARKLING ICE! Just in time for your holiday parties and to ring in the New Year! Surely by now your friends are begging for new recipes, as they loved our fall cocktails so much. The first one is a classic: a hot toddy. Cozy Hot Toddy Ingredients 6 oz. Crisp Apple SPARKLING ICE 1 ½ oz. whisky or apple brandy 1 teaspoon honey Cinnamon stick, allspice cloves, and apple slices for garnish Directions Coat the bottom of a glass coffee cup with honey. Add whisky or brandy. Heat Crisp...

Drink Like a Queen with Vermouth Royal

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Feel like a queen for the day by sampling some of Vermouth Royal’s noble cocktail recipes (see below). La Quintinye Vermouth Royal is an opulent French vermouth crafted from white wines from South West of France, Pineau des Charentes – a renowned fortified wine made by mixing fresh grape juice and Cognac from a single estate – and a composition of carefully curated botanicals. Made in the King of Spirits Vineyards, La Quintinye Vermouth Royal combines the heart and soul of the Royal terroir of Charente with the vision and expertise of master distiller and oenologist Jean-Sebastien Robicquet. Royal & Spice Ingredients 2 oz Vermouth...

Apple Inspired Cocktail Recipes

Posted by luxebeat | Cocktails, Entertaining, Featured, Recipes, Wine & Spirits |

As the hot summer makes its transition into cool fall, it’s time to forget about fixing cocktails with berries and start using everyone’s favorite fall food: apples! Whether it is hot apple cider, chilled apple juice or just a tasty apple brandy, the flavor of the apple makes a great foundation for many mixed drinks and works well with many different types of liquor. We’ve rounded up some of our favorite cocktails to drink when the weather starts cooling down. Apple Cider Bellini Ingredients: Bottle of Prosecco DOC ¼ oz Fig-infused vodka/liquor ¾ cup Apple cider Powdered cinnamon Granulated...

Rum Tasting at the Four Seasons Nevis

Posted by Tim Cotroneo | Cocktails, Featured, Wine & Spirits |

The three shots that Theron focuses on at the beginning of his presentation represent the categories accounting for the rum industry as we know it.

XXIV Karat Gold Diggers Make a Splash

Posted by Sherrie Wilkolaski | Cocktails, Columns, Cookies & Cocktails, Entertaining, Featured, Holidays, Interviews, Lifestyle, Wine & Spirits |

Champagne is my absolute favorite cocktail. Give me some bubbles in a flute of sparkling wine or Prosecco and I’ll be happy. Indulgence is everything when you’re celebrating and “bubbles” is my red carpet drink. When I thought nothing could be better than a brut glass of sparkling wine, I discovered my cocktail could become more luxurious with a new spirit called XXIV Karat. It’s the first California sparkling wine infused with indulgent 24-karat gold flakes. Trying this new brand wasn’t enough, I was even more intrigued when I found out that co-founders Nicholas Cowherd and Kegan Klein are...

Fall Cocktail Recipes

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Wave goodbye to summer and get ready for the flavors of fall! As we go from flip flops to flats and boots, it’s time to relish the countless ingredients available to use in cocktails and cooking. Save the berry drinks for next summer; now’s the time to enjoy such favorites as apples, cinnamon, figs, pumpkin and pear. According to Partida Tequila’s Bartender Ambassador Jacques Bezuidenhout, fall is a time for experimenting with cocktail flavors. “Fall is one of my favorite cocktail seasons, because flavors like apple, pear, cider and baking spice blend so nicely with aged spirits like Anejo...

The Art Of Bartending

Posted by Sherrie Wilkolaski | Cocktails, Columns, Cookies & Cocktails, Featured, Interviews, Wine & Spirits |

It’s a Saturday evening. Your standing reservation at a favorite bistro is scheduled for eight o’clock and you arrive early so you can enjoy a cocktail at the bar before dinner. You make your way to the lounge and your neighborhood bartender welcomes you with your favorite cocktail. The last drop of your martini transfers from the shaker into the chilled glass, and in drops two olives just the way you like it. You stretch out your arm as if to shake hands with the tonics wizard but instead, you caress the glass and bring it up to your...

WelcomArt at ITC Hotels in India and Refreshing Tea

Posted by Maralyn Hill | Art, Cocktails, Featured, Recipes |

This hotel intrigued me so much, I wanted to share their art as well as the delicious drink. WelcomArt at ITC Hotels Dedicated to nurturing India’s cultural heritage, ITC Hotels has a vast art collection at each property. Through its WelcomArt forum, the hotels’ Srishti Art Galleries feature the best of Indian contemporary art. Most notably, Krishen Khanna’s stunning mural, “The Great Procession of Life,” coats the entire domed ceiling in the foyer of ITC Maurya, enhancing the grand entrance way. The painting, which took three years to complete, illustrates the melding of the Mauryan era and modern Delhi. Other...