If you are a fan of the Dark and Stormy cocktail, then you will love the Ginger Rum Shrub. It comes from colonial recipe for a ginger syrup made with sugar, ginger and vinegar better known as a “Shrub”. While …
Author: Bottle Pros
Limonata Scozzeze
Summer is here and it is time for cool highballs. This culinary cocktail is one of our favorite summer refreshers. It takes cucumber and marries it to gin in a most satisfying fashion. While any Gin will suffice, this drink …
The Planter’s Punch
The other day we came across an old advertisement from the good folks at Myers’s Distillery in Jamaica for The Planters Punch. Here is a drink that has as many renditions as it does claims to its origins. Some say …
Exploring the Loire Valley
The Madison Tasters Club is a monthly tasting group comprised of non-industry, non-professional consumers of wine. The group is moderated by a professional Sommelier who selects the evening’s wines. Each month the group will taste six selections with a specific …
The Buzzing Bee Cocktail
Today's cocktail is a creation all our own and take's it's inspiration from an all-time favorite, the Bee's Knees. The latter is a prohibition era drink spun from the need to mask the less than appealing aromas & flavors of …
The Presbyterian Cocktail, a.k.a “Press”
As a young bartender I would occasionally answer the call for a, “Bourbon Press”. This is short for the Presbyterian Cocktail, a drink from the old guard that is ridiculously simple in execution but sublime in its expression. How a …
Obscure Varietals
The Madison Tasters Club is a monthly tasting group comprised of non-industry, non-professional consumers of wine. The group is moderated by a professional Sommelier who selects the evening’s wines. Each month the group will taste six selections with a specific …
