prohibition

Features

Get to know: Pink Lady

A once-coveted starlet of the pre-Prohibition era, few cocktails have achieved such ridicule as the Pink Lady. But why? Seamus Harris remembers a century of pink-drink prejudice.
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Get to know: The Vesper

James Bond might have sent the gin category into a tailspin with the vodka martini, but the Vesper is his saving grace.
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Get to know: Absinthe Classics

Few spirits can claim as chequered a history as absinthe. Escaping persecution in Europe, discover how the green fairy found a spiritual home in New Orleans.
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Get to know: Mojito

Rum-runners created Cuba's most famous cocktail, but revolutionaries forced it to travel.
Products

Buffalo Trace

What is it? Buffalo Trace is the oldest continuously operating distillery in America – it even remained open through Prohibition for “medicinal purposes” – and it is home to some of the finest bourbons found on the market, from Stagg Jr to Pappy Van Winkle. This is made from the lower rye of the distillery’s […]
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