Created in the late 1800s, the roots of this refreshing cocktail lie in a very rowdy period of London’s bar history. The idea of mixing a Gin Punch with soda water was introduced to London by a New Yorker called Stephen Price, who had moved to London to manage the Covent Garden Theater. He then …
Sazerac, a cocktail that is so closely associated with New Orleans that in 2008 it was declared as the city’s official cocktail. Until recently, the most popularly believed story of the Sazerac cocktail was one in which it supposedly underwent quite a few changes from when its journey began in New Orleans. Circa 1840, Sewell …
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This truly classic drink that survived various historical upheavals like prohibitions, wars and the great depression is also the first cocktail that used Vermouth as a modifier long before the Rob Roy, Bobby Burns, and Martini. We first hear of the Manhattan cocktail in an article written in 1882 about a cocktail called The Manhattan …
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Legend has it that this cocktail was invented in 1919 at the Casoni Bar in Florence by a bartender called Fosco Scarselli for Count Camillo Negroni who had just returned from America. It is said that the count asked the bartender to strengthen his favourite cocktail, the Americano by replacing the soda with gin. Apparently, the …
