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You love a good diffusion brand, happily standing in early morning lines when a favorite runway designer does a collaboration with a department store so you can grab a few key pieces for yourself. Decoy is your wine. For 40 years, Duckhorn has been synonymous with luxury, estate-grown wines, an iconic label that’s a must-have in any proud wine collector’s cellar — quickly snapped up each year by an army of superfans. The Decoy label is a great way to get that Duckhorn legacy and quality at a great price — the perfect Pinot Noir to bring along to holiday dinners with the family. You know, to prove you're a real, card-carrying grownup.
When the weight of the world is on your shoulders, ease up and transfer it to the weight of these simple yet classic glasses in your palm — hopefully while petting your favorite hound with the other. As Johnny Carson says, "Happiness is having a rare steak, a bottle of whisky, and a dog to eat the rare steak."
First time hosting happy hour at your new place, you want to show off but not seem like you're trying too hard. Relax. Throw together a simple goat cheese flatbread cut into finger food (we won't judge if it's frozen from a certain trader), a fresh, spicy greens salad and maybe some clam dip and pop open this funky, tart French white - a fierce and distinctive Sauvignon Blanc from a small-batch producer in France's Loire Valley, where the chalky soil was once a seabed and adds a gravelly almost saltiness. Everyone will just remember how much fun they had, and the great the food, wine & laughter.
Oh, you smooth talker you. You wear them down and woo them with your good looks and charm, not to mention patience. Made by legacy Louisville, Kentucky distiller Tom Bulleit, this 10-year reserve barrel "high-rye" Bourbon is a special, rich and deep sipping experience, deep russet in color with oaky and smoky finish — perfect for BBQs in summer and casual roasted dinners in winter. Celebrate the wingmen and wing-women who helped you get lucky enough to seal the deal by gifting this limited release bottle.
Cult classics are your thing, especially if they're limited editions. This is an "up talking into the wee hours of the night" kind of white, just like the winemakers from this famed California house who picked these grapes in the dark, aged them in French oak, and made them into this coveted, rare reserve of creamy, toasty, butterscotch-y goodness. Put a few away for safekeeping before they're gone forever.
"Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine." No doubt, NYC native Humphrey Bogart himself would approve of this proudly independent, handcrafted gin made right in the Boroughs. Founders Emil Jättne and Joe Santos set out to make a high-quality small-batch American gin by hand - literally, they hand-crack the juniper berries and hand-cut the citrus slices for distilling. Perfect for sipping while you're waiting on your special someone to finish getting ready for summer cocktails at the Boat Basin or Taxi Beach, to mix up into a pitcher of Sea Breezes to share with a piano bar's worth of friends at home, or to share along with its maker story on 4th of July.
When the humidity is so thick and oppressive you could cut it with a knife, the best way to cool down is with a batch of Aperol Spritz - like jumping straight into the cold waters of a fountain on a piazza. With its bright, gentle, bitter-sweet taste of orange and rhubarb, the classic and lively Italian aperitif with the secret recipe is a favorite all across Italy on hot summer afternoons and at garden parties, a cherished ritual of mixing with prosecco and soda and Aperol in the biggest balloon of a wine glass you can find. Modern bartenders have taken to serving Aperol year-round, too, by mixing it into winter cocktails like Hot Toddies or spiced aged-rum ciders or mixing it into spring refreshers like Pimm's Cups and champagne or gin punches.
Weird and wonderful things happen when you enjoy a good Mezcal with friends and spirit animals, from weddings in Marfa to urban vision quests. Where there's smoke there's usually fire, and this Ilegal Mezcal Joven offers up the best sweet smoked agave, minty eucalyptus and rich earth with just a hint of flowers, like a smudge stick for the soul. Sub it into your favorite tequila cocktails, like you would replace chili peppers with chipotle when you want more umami in a favorite dish, or share a finger or two over ice to help your nearest and dearest tune in to Mezcal's magical powers.
You've got roots and wings, baby: you love celebrating the past but always have one eye on the future. An homage to the original rye whiskey cocktail created on Bourbon Street in New Orleans back in 1838 — the classic Sazerac (made with absinthe and bitters) — this 6-year straight rye fittingly comes from America's oldest and most award-winning distillery, Buffalo Trace. As the longest continuously operating distillery in the US — they didn't even have to shut down for Prohibition — this is truly a bottle for any well-stocked bar that wants to laissez les bon temps rouler.
Anything more than a Champagne glass is a waste, or so they used to say. Channel that less-is-more Greatest Generation mindset with these classic gold-rimmed coupes, a throwback to Old Havana at a time when the time capsule of Cuba has been reopened for adventure. Mix up a batch of Champagne or aged rum cocktails and toast to your travel bucket list.
You remember gazing longingly at the poppy-embossed set in your parents’ china hutch and counting the minutes until you could be a grownup and drink from those glasses, the epitome of being fancy. Now that you have finally have your own home, your time has come (to be those parents). Pop open the iconic bottle of Perrier Jouet's Champagne — a full-bodied, crystalline sparkler which scored a 95 with Wine Enthusiast Magazine for the 2007 vintage — on your first New Year's Eve together to ring in the circle of life and a beautiful new age.
Whenever you're suffering from a case of early onset nostalgia, Don Julio has your back. Spanish for "aged," anejo is the golden elixir that gives top shelf margaritas their depth of flavor. Matured in smaller batches for 18 months in American white-oak barrels, Don Julio Añejo is a rich, distinctive and wonderfully complex tequila, with flavors balanced perfectly between agave, wood, and hints of vanilla. Pour a few fingers and relive the glory days with dear friends, or go for something completely different with a twist on the throwback Manhattan by substituting anejo tequila for whiskey.
Your ragtag crew of misfits manages to hide their mischievous ways in plain sight, like the most infamous rum-running flotillas, and you love them the more for it. This small-batch rum is your new go-to sipping spirit. The hero-pirates of Prohibition, rum-runners smuggled schooner holds full of cane sugar casks from the Caribbean to New York - and Kirk and Sweeney is named for one of the most infamous seizures. Crafted in the Dominican Republic from raw sugarcane and fully aged for 23 years in the barrel, this aged rum is as complex as it is caramelized. Pour a few fingers over ice with a splash of freshly squeezed fruit juice and let the shenanigans commence.
Cowboy up, it's the end of the day and that's means it's rally time for fun and feisty cocktails. Situated at the bottom of the Quitting Time Ski Run in Park City, High West Distillery & Saloon is the first distillery in Utah since Prohibition and the only ski-in gastro-distillery in the world. Paying homage to the history of the Old West saloons and the important role they played as a meeting place, this is a rye that is meant to be shared and infused with that sense of community and friendship. This is a young, bold, and spicy whiskey perfect for creating new memories — think bachelor & bachelorette parties, milestone reunions.
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