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  • The Best Aged Mezcal: Time, Smoke, and the Slow Magic of Mexico

    Mezcal isn’t a spirit you sip so much as a spirit you inhabit. It arrives with smoke curling through the air like a whispered memory, carrying the scent of distant fires, of mountains beyond the…

  • The Best Bars in Reykjavik: Where Icelandic Spirit, Story, and Style Collide

    Reykjavik is a city that feels like a beautiful fever dream — a place where volcanic earth hisses beneath your feet and the midnight sun hangs in the sky like a half-forgotten myth. And yet,…

  • Vienna’s Best Bars: A Spirited Journey Through the City’s Quiet Corners and Electric Nights

    Vienna is a city of contradictions — imperial grandeur shadowed by punk squats, an afternoon waltz slipping into a dawn techno rave. You come here expecting Strauss and Sachertorte and leave haunted by the city’s…

  • Best Scotch Under $200 That You Can Actually Find: A Traveler’s Guide to Bottles You’ll Remember

    There’s a kind of hush that falls over you the first time you taste a truly great Scotch — a hush that feels like standing on a damp hillside in the Highlands as the wind…

  • How To Pair Scotch And Steak

    For many, tradition suggests pairing your favorite cut of beef with a glass of full-bodied red wine. Whether that’s a cab, a Brunello, or even a malbec is really up to you, but to be…

  • Best New Scotch Whiskies of 2024

    Seemingly hundreds of new Scotch whiskies hit shelves in 2024, but when it came down to it these were the best Is there anything better than a good glass of Scotch? Seriously, we’re asking. As…

  • Best Bars in Miami

    Best Bars in Miami

    Long known as one of America’s best cities for food, drinks, and good times, Miami has grown into one of the world’s best cocktail destinations featuring some of the planet’s best bars Miami finds itself…

  • Bacan Guaro Is Turning Aguardiente Into A Luxury Spirit

    Star anise-flavored Colombian aguardiente is taking a step up in the spirits world thanks to Bacan Guaro’s focus on high-quality ingredients Look far enough back on any timeline and the price of most spirits drops…

  • 8 Cocktails with Bacan Guaro, a Luxury Aguardiente from Colombia

    Our Bacan Guaro cocktails include a low-ABV Old Fashioned, an espresso martini play, and a variety of other bright and delicious concoctions As Colombian aguardiente continues its rise in markets across the world, making its…

  • Best New Bourbons Of 2024

    Best New Bourbons Of 2024

    Spirited’s best new bourbons of 2024 list includes offerings from brands in Kentucky and beyond, as well as classic names like Weller along with distilleries just beginning to make their mark Can bourbon keep getting…