Spirited
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Let’s begin with a thought experiment. Imagine standing on a slate bluff at the edge of the known world—or at least the furthest northmost coastal crag of the Scottish mainland—wind blowing sideways, your sense of…
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This summer, Barcelona’s world-renowned Paradiso bar—ranked among the globe’s best for its avant-garde mixology—has taken up residence inside one of Ibiza’s most legendary nightclubs: Pacha. The result is a collaboration that feels less like a…
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There’s a particular sort of magic when wood meets spirit—when time carves character into something born clear and fiery. It’s the dance of tannin and temperature, tradition and experimentation. That magic is precisely what Douglas…
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The distillery’s National Parks: Acadia Edition marks its first whiskey release outside Wyoming—and a tribute to one of Maine’s most iconic landscapes. There’s a moment—on the winding park loop road in Acadia, just past Sand…
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The ninth release in the high-strength series blends sherry-seasoned oak and ex-Bourbon casks for a whisky that challenges its own name. Each year, when The Macallan drops its Classic Cut release, something subtle but seismic…
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The Fifth Avenue Hotel’s The Portrait Bar has launched a new summer menu celebrating Long Island, its beaches, cocktails, and the LIRR. There’s something about the LIRR—the clatter, the urgency, the quiet romance of watching…
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London’s Nightjar celebrates a milestone with 24 imaginative cocktails honoring mixology across four historic eras with its new Recalling menu. In the candlelit shadows of East London’s speakeasy scene, Nightjar has always felt like a…
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Seoul’s nightlife isn’t what it used to be—or what you think it is. Beneath neon-lit streets and tucked behind hanok‑style facades lies a flourishing cocktail scene that’s as global in inspiration as it is fiercely…
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There are bottles that speak in gentle whispers, and then there are those that shout across the wild sea air of Islay. The new 2025 Càirdeas release from Laphroaig, Lore Cask Strength, belongs firmly in…
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There’s a certain poetry in fire and oak, in the sweet sting of smoke and the gentle warmth of old wood. Today, Old Forester conjures that magic once again with the highly anticipated return of…