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Cocktail of the Day
17th of October 2025

Today is World Calvados Day, so we are drinking a Harvest Cocktail.

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Del Maguey Single Village Mezcals

Del Maguey was created by Ron Cooper, an artist who grew up in Ojai, California and started his career in Los Angeles during the late 1960s. Within a decade,

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Autumn / Fall Cocktails

Summer is fading, leaves are starting to scatter the ground and the weather is turning chillier. It's not yet time for winter warmers, but crushed ice-charged

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Christina Mercado

For Christina Mercado, who recently won the 2025 Altos Tahona Society Competition, her entrepreneurial future has been a long time in the making. She first

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Sherry White Negroni

A delicious, relatively low alcohol, bittersweet palate sharpener. As is the norm for Negronis, many will expect and perhaps prefer this cocktail to be

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Iron Cross

I started with a Ferra China take on a Sazerac and six experimental cocktails later, ended up with this more iron-influenced Old Fashioned. I enjoyed the

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Piper Plane

Scotch whisky adds delicate peaty notes to this excellent riff on the usually bourbon-based Paper Plane.

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Roman Sour

A balanced and pleasing bourbon-laced sour with coffee and almond. (A lemon zest twist produces a fresher, drier cocktail, but orange is perhaps more harmonious.)

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Caribbean Boulevardier

A rum and coconut riff on a classic Boulevardier.

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Coconut Mojito

The rum gives the coconut an almost toasty note in this nutty riff on a classic Mojito.

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Aegean Sunrise

Fruity coconut with a splash of Greek sunshine spirit.

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Pumpkin Spice Margarita (PSM)

Just as the name promises, a lightly spiced, pumpkin-flavoured Margarita.

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Brazuca Remedy

Bittersweet and complex with underlying cachaça character. Perfect as an aperitivo.

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Charming Man

A delicious riff on a Mezcal Negroni. Depending on your mood/occasion, you may instead prefer to serve this cocktail straight-up in a coupe.

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Negroni Spumante

A Negroni invigorated with a splash of sparkling wine. Every Negroni drinker should try this variation.

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Scorpion Reef

A delicious modern-day mezcal and rum-laced cocktail that could be a Tiki classic.

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Lustau Sherry Cocktail Competition

Like us, our friends at Lustau are passionate advocates of the exceptional qualities of sherry as a cocktail ingredient. They are keen to encourage the

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Elijah Craig Old Fashioned Week

Elijah Craig Bourbon is hosting its sixth annual Old Fashioned Week, a ten-day celebration from 10-19 October 2025 that invites you to raise a glass to

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