Spirited
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It’s not often that a bottle of Champagne earns astronaut status. But on July 15, 2025, Mumm Cordon Rouge Stellar touched back down on Earth after a 20-day mission aboard Axiom Mission 4, having orbited…
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There’s something deeply American—front-porch-on-a-humid-evening American—about the return of Knob Creek Bourbon x Rye, a bottle that quite literally splits the difference between tradition and experimentation. After a successful debut last year, James B. Beam Distilling…
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By all accounts, The Four Horsemen could’ve coasted. Ten years in, the Michelin-starred Williamsburg wine bar had established itself as one of the neighborhood’s most influential dining rooms—a place where people came to speak in…
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There are summer cocktails that feel like artifacts—iced-down and over-muddled, too much syrup, too little grace. And then there’s the Paloma Spritz: a drink so deceptively simple, so crystalline in its execution, it feels like…
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There’s something about Osaka, that supposed “kitchen of Japan,” that makes you realize—halfway through your third whisky highball and seventh skewer of chicken cartilage—that Tokyo’s buttoned-up pretensions were never really the whole story. If Kyoto…
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In a city where laneway legends and back-alley bottle shops often outshine the flashy big-budget builds, the team behind Caretaker’s Cottage—Melbourne’s intimate, now-iconic cocktail bar tucked beside a church and lit by the glow of…
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There’s a cantina now in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, that feels like it might have been plucked from a side street in Roma Norte and dropped, still humming, into 397 Tompkins Avenue. It’s called Dolores, the latest…
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There’s something frontier-like about the way 15 STARS approaches bourbon—like they’ve studied the past not just to re-create it, but to remix it with the confidence of a new generation who knows the value of…
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There are things that don’t feel real until you say them out loud. Like this: someone—two someones, actually, a father and son named John and George Urquhart—filled a single American oak cask with Glenlivet spirit…
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In the hushed, velvet-draped lounge of Hotel Lancaster—just a whisper off the Champs-Élysées—you can now drink with ghosts. Or at least, to them. Paris institution CopperBay, tucked inside this century-old hotel where Marlene Dietrich once…