Review: Seersucker Southern Style Lemonade and Limeade
The folks behind Seersucker Southern Style Gin have launched two extension products: both are based on their gin recipe, flavored with either lemon or lime. They say this is a first: “After a year of research and development, we’re proud to be the first brand to offer a gin blended with all-natural juice,” says Trey Azar,…
Review: Dulce Vida Paloma and Margarita
Austin-based Dulce Vida Spirits makes an exceptional line of tequilas, and the latest addition to the mix is this duo of ready-to-drink, classic tequila cocktails. Boasting “100% natural freshness,” these premixed cocktails are made with 100% agave blanco tequila, plus authentic ingredients — meaning real juice. So, hats off. Let’s give these ready-to-go concoctions the old…
Review: Colina Colada Ron con Horchata
Colina Colada is the rum world’s answer to Irish Cream liqueur, a horchata-inspired liqueur that “blends Caribbean rum with fresh dairy cream, cinnamon, lemon, and other unique, natural spices.” It’s made using Don Colina’s recipe, though the product does not include the Dos Ron brand on the label; also, the product is actually bottled in Florida. If…
Review: Farmhouse 2017 White Wine and 2016 Red Wine
Sonoma’s Cline family is stretching its way into natural wines with the release of Farmhouse, a new label of inexpensive blends, one red, one white. While the wines are named and labeled in honor of a Petaluma farmhouse called Green String, where clean farming techniques are taught to Cline’s “interns,” the grapes used in the…
Review: Dos Ron Solera 8 Anos and Solera 16 Anos
Dos Ron is the brainchild of Don Colina, who brought his “authentic Cuban family recipe” to the Dominican Republic, where these two rums are being distilled. Both Dos Ron bottlings are aged in a solera style, though it’s unclear whether the 8 years/16 years of age on the label represents the minimum or the average…
Review: Wines of Edna Valley, 2018 Releases
Today it’s a septet from Edna Valley Vineyards, all whites (and a rose) designed for sipping in the heat as summer continues to bear down upon us. 2017 Edna Valley Rose California – A pale pink mutt made from Tempranillo, Syrah, Grenache, and Mourvedre. Extremely dry, it offers some floral notes on the back-end, but only…
Review: Shaker & Spoon Cocktail Club
If you’re like me, when you find yourself face to face with an avant garde cocktail menu, you order the thing with the craziest ingredients on the list. I can make a gin and tonic at home just fine. Pickled boysenberry rhubarb shrub… that’s probably not something I’m going to whip up on my own.…
Review: Captain Morgan Watermelon Smash
The latest in Captain Morgan’s hand grenade-styled flavored rums is this, Watermelon Smash, which is exactly what you think it is: Caribbean rum flavored with natural watermelon flavor and color. No need to get too cute with this one: The watermelon flavor is authentic and sweet, closer to the real fruit than to Jolly Ranchers,…
