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A traditional Italian bittersweet red aperitivo, Cappelletti is wine-based and coloured crimson red with natural carmine. Cappelletti is mostly used to make Spritz with white wine and soda.

James Bond drank a Negroni when he wasn't in the mood for a Martini, and when Orson Welles tried his first one in 1947, he commented, "The bitters are excellent for your liver, the gin is bad for you.

Tequila is a distilled spirit made from the cooked and fermented juice of the agave (pronounced 'Uh-Gah-Vee'), a spiky Mexican plant which resembles a cactus. Traditionally the process is labour ...

The Dry Martini, a blend of dry gin (or vodka) with a hint of dry vermouth and perhaps orange bitters is one of the quickest and simplest cocktails to make. However, due to the myriad of different ...

Part of the 'sour' cocktail family, the Margarita traditionally consists of three ingredients: tequila, triple sec orange liqueur and lime juice, often served in a glass with salt on the rim.

Distillation does not produce alcohol, it merely concentrates it. To produce a distilled spirit you need to start with an alcoholic liquid ('wash') to distil your spirit from. The majority of vodkas ...

The founders of Wolves Whiskey are both from the world of fashion. By focusing on the emerging American Single Malt Whiskey category, they have undeniably created a very fashionable whiskey. James ...

Words by By Simon Difford (based on and with extracts from Schweppes The First 200 Years published 1983).

The Daiquiri cocktail is closely related to the Canchanchara, a 19th-century Cuban blend of aquardiente de caña, lime, honey and water, but the creation of the Daiquiri is credited by Jennings ...

I'm guessing you're reading this page because you're already an accomplished cocktail mixer and are interested in the fineries of the art or you've just read Cocktail shaking basics and were intrigued ...

While the exact origins of the Mojito cocktail and its name are lost in time, some trace it back to 1586 and a medicinal drink named after Sir Francis Drake. Drake was one of a band of privateers ...