by Michael Cervin | Feb 28, 2024 | Cocktail RTD
“The Perfect Cosmo” By SJP (Sarah Jessica Parker, co-founder of Thomas Ashbourne) is one of the better celebrity driven canned cocktails to come from this line. Though it is a fairly simplistic take on the classic Cosmopolitan cocktail, it is reasonably balanced.... 
by Michael Cervin | Feb 22, 2024 | Gin
The nose on this is classic London dry, that crisp clean, aromatic traditional gin that you sometimes crave. There are traditional flavors as well; mint, eucalyptus, juniper, citrus and pine-herbal notes folded into a complex but cohesive whole. It also offers... 
by Michael Cervin | Feb 15, 2024 | Bourbon Whiskey
Buffalo Trace produces a vast array of bourbons and this, their standard offering, is relatively inexpensive in the bourbon world, doing an admirable job at a conservative price. Initially there is a forward brown sugar note, with apricot, resin, light peach, burnt... 
by Michael Cervin | Feb 7, 2024 | Cocktail RTD
A creamy concoction that twists the classic White Russian cocktail by using vodka and rum and oat milk instead of Bailey Irish Cream. This makes for a fairly well balanced ready-to-drink (RTD) cocktail. The addition of the rum is the most noticeable aspect of this,... 
by Michael Cervin | Feb 7, 2024 | Tequila
Celebrity spirits are all the rage and it seems everyone is getting into the act. As with most celebrity-driven spirits, 818 is decent, but unremarkable. The nose provides a suitable sense of the agave, but also a lot of sweetness. This translates to the first sip...
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