With a history steeped in elegance, storied labels, and poster legends like Toulouse-Lautrec, Champagne has always been more than a...
The story of Fine à l’eau is difficult—if not impossible—to trace with accuracy. But one thing is certain: after World...
Aphra Behn (1640–1689), British, knew a thing or two about keeping secrets. By the age of 25, she had already...
The Fanciulli cocktail must have got its name from somewhere. It’s just that no one has discovered where, and today...
The story of the Lemon Drop Martini (we’ll get back to that “Martini” part in a moment) is curiously intertwined...
Marlene Dietrich didn’t dress to impress, she just wanted to feel comfortable. So she claimed on more than one occasion,...
Hats off to the Oaxaca Old Fashioned. More than a simple twist, it is the variation that — almost single-handedly...
Let’s imagine we could go back in time to the first half of the 1930s. Now let’s step into an...
The Widow’s Kiss is not an easy drink to master. It calls for precision—both in ingredients and proportions. It’s a...
On Christmas Day in 1694, the English admiral Edward Russell managed to get six thousand people drunk — and to...
The Blow My Skull cocktail has been described as a “notoriously strong alcoholic mix,” and it’s easy to see why...
One evening in 2001, at the Library Bar of London’s Lanesborough Hotel, Stevie Wonder sat down at the piano and...
