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South America
Santa Teresa Venezuelan Rum
40%
Cocktails: Zombie
Blend of Venezuelan rums, vatted using the solera system, blended from rums aged between 8-12 years of age. After blending it is aged a further year in bourbon barrels.
The rum has an aroma of sweet caramel and creamy vanilla, with touches of toffee, cherries and raisins. The aroma opens up to notes of dried fruits (particularly oranges), molasses and berries on the palate, which fade into hints of toffee, chocolate and cinnamon. The finish, which is long and layered, has notes of dark chocolate and caramel.
Jamaican
Hamilton Gold Jamaican Rum
46.5%
Cocktails: Zombie
Blend of extra light, light & heavy pot still rums distilled from molasses at Worthy Park Estate then bottled by rum aficionado Ed Hamilton. Classic ester-rich aromas and flavors charred wood, molasses, dark caramel.
Aged up to five years.
Guyana (Demerara style)
Hamilton Overproof 151
75.5%
Cocktails: Zombie
This long awaited overproof bottling takes the place of the much beloved but no longer available Lemon Hart 151. Produced at Diamond Distillers in Guyana the source of the greatest Demerara rums in the world, the quality is par excellence with notes that include Raisin Bran, vanilla custard, sweet plantains, oloroso Sherry, and coconut. A new standard bearer for the category and at 75.5% ABV
Francais
Vieux Pontarlier
65%
Cocktails: Blacktail
High alcohol, anise-flavored liqueur. The production of absinthe is much like that of gin: High-proof neutral spirit is infused with a blend of botanicals, including wormwood, and redistilled.
Cognac Ferrand
Plantation Pineapple Rum
40%
Cocktails: Zombie
Plantation Pineapple Rum Stiggins’ Fancy is a pineapple rum created by infusing ripe Queen Victoria pineapples in rich, aged Plantation Original Dark Rum for 3 months. The pineapple rind (where the pineapple’s essential oil chiefly resides) was macerated in rum and then distilled, thus creating a bright pineapple essence to blend with the lushness of the infused Plantation rum.
Absolut Elyx
42.3%
Cocktails: Coqtail
Copper-distilled vodka made from single-parcel wheat. The combination of copper distillation and high quality base ingredients results in a rich, textured and highly-flavorful expression of vodka.
Chambery
Dolin Blanc Vermouth
16%
Cocktails: Coqtail
Colorless sweet vermouth style invented by Chambéry AOC designated producer Dolin. The blanc style is generalized as more herb-centric and less spicy than Torino-style rosso vermouth.
The ingredients are wine, herbs and plants, grape spirit and sugar
Barbados
John D. Taylor’s Velvet Falernum
11%
Cocktails: Coqtail
Made from an infusion of spices and lime juice into sugar cane syrup and Barbados Rum.
Ginger, clove, lime, almond, vanilla
Jerez
Lustau Amontillado Sherry
18,5%
100 % Palomino
Cocktails: Coqtail, The Adonis
Aged in American oak casks in the traditional “Solera y Criaderas”
An aged fino that has lost its flor in the process of cask aging. It’s deeper amber in color and richer and nuttier (hazelnut) than the previous styles. Light, soft and round on the palate, with a long aftertaste.
In 1950, the company began exporting its own sherry wines
Cocchi Vermouth di Torino
Moscato d’Asti grape base
16%
Cocktails: The Adonis
A classic example of the Turin style of sweet vermouth, with its base of Moscato d’Asti, and further flavorings of cocoa, rhubarb, and citrus.
Resurrected from a recipe first offered in 1891
Notes of orange, green grapes, rhubarb, tobacco, cola & leather
Vermouth di Torino is one of only two geographically protected AOC vermouths (the other being Chambery).
Jerez
Lustau Fino Sherry
Need to find out which fino
Cocktails: The Adonis
Fino (“refined” in Spanish) is the driest and palest of the traditional varieties of Sherry and Montilla-Moriles fortified wine.
Pale Cream Sherry
Who’s sherry do we carry?
Cocktails: The Adonis
Made by blending fino and light amontillado Sherries and lightly sweetening the blend. They have a very pale gold color.
London
Beefeater London Dry Gin
40%
Pernod Ricard
Gin distilled from 100% grain spirit, made using nine different botanicals: juniper, angelica root, angelica seeds, coriander seeds, licorice, almonds, orris root, Seville oranges, and lemon peel.
Production of this gin started in 1876, becoming James Bourroughs flagship spirit among the many being distilled in the Chelsea Distillery
1958 the distillery makes it’s final move to Kennington, a site once occupied by the Haywards Military Pickle Factory
A beefeater is a ceremonial guardian of the London Tower
Milan, Italy
Carpano Antica Sweet Vermouth
16.5%
Fratelli Branca Distillerie
Cocktails: Don’t Give up the Ship,
Antica Formula is an example of the vermouth alla vaniglia style: a red vermouth with added vanilla flavoring and sugar to balance.
Originating in 1786 Antonio Benedetto Carpano, the first person to replicate the recipe with the same characteristics and taste in his wine shop
Vermouth
In order to be classed as a vermouth, it must be composed of at least 75% of wine, have a minimum alcoholic strength by volume of 14.5% or more and a maximum alcoholic strength by volume of less than 22% and must contain Artemisias, which are its characterizing elements.
<strong>Extra dry:</strong>in case of products with a sugar content of less than 30 grams per litre;
<strong>Dry</strong>: in case of products with a sugar content of less than 50 grams per litre;
<strong>Half dry</strong>: in case of products with a sugar content of between 50 and 90 grams per litre;
<strong>Semidolce</strong>: in case of products with a sugar content of between 90 and 130 grams per litre;
<strong>Dolce</strong>: in case of products with a sugar content of more than 130 grams per litre.
