The world’s first rested, super-premium young potato vodka. Naturally gluten-free, Family Reserve features a special variety of young potato that was planted during the 2016 growing season in the rich, dark soil of the estate fields surrounding the distillery. The potatoes were harvested when they were still young, producing a sweeter tasting profile with delicate earthy notes. The spirit was then left undisturbed in fifty-year-old Polish oak barrels for two years to allow time for it to rest and mellow before being bottled, by hand. All the potatoes used in Family Reserve are naturally-grown without chemicals or pesticides on the Chopin distillery estate grounds. It is also ideal for sipping chilled neat, over the rocks, in martinis or signature cocktails.
Tasting Notes: Presents on the nose hints of spice that accent a gentle, sweet musk Palate opens with a delicate earthy sweetness Followed by understated notes of licorice and clove Finish is medium-long with a lingering warmth
ABV: 40.0%
It's important to stop and celebrate life's milestones, big and small. Named one of the Richest Pours of 2016 by Forbes, this is an extra-aged tequila created to mark the 60th anniversary of Don Julio's first distillery in Jalisco, La Primavera. Produced in small batches, Don Julio 1942 is one of the most highly sought-after and exquisite Mexican tequilas. The process begins by hand-selecting Agave plants that take seven to ten years to mature. The Agave is then slowly roasted for 70 hours in traditional masonry ovens and double distilled in a special alambique. This limited edition Tequila is crafted from the finest Agave and aged until it reaches the most extraordinary levels of flavor and character - a tribute to Don Julio Gonzalez's epic journey and a fitting way to commemorate yours, at each step of the way.
Hey girl. Sorry you had a bad day - let me make you a luxury skinny margarita and you can tell me all about it. If you're lucky enough to be married to a smooth Baby Goose all your own, you've got it made - and if he's still learning the ropes, help him on his way to making simple, everyday things mean more starting with this top-shelf bottle of silver tequila in your home bar. Using the finest raw agave and a time honored distillation process, Don Julio Blanco has crisp, clean grapefruit and citrus flavors with subtle hints of pepper and grass - perfect over ice with just a little simple syrup and lime juice, maybe a rim of spicy salt. Tequila cocktails first, offering to help you make all your Pinterest project come true is next.
Just a whisper, that's how you order your favorite drink from your favorite craft cocktail bar. Using the finest French wheat and the same spring water that makes Cognac, cellar master Francois Thibault has created a "field to bottle" top shelf vodka using the same exacting standards and tasting notes as France's winemakers. This smooth, subtly complex vodka is the perfect choice for any sophisticated vodka cocktail served in a stemmed glass: a Vodka Martini, a Cosmopolitan, a Gimlet, or a Vesper.
Cool as a cucumber no matter how dysfunctional the family gathering, you enjoy a stiff cocktail as uniquely stoic. One of the original small-batch gins, Hendricks is known for being a smooth, light, and refreshing cocktail gin infused with just a whisper of cucumber and rose petals. Make up a pitcher of Tom Collins or Gin Fizzes for 4th of July at the beach house or if the bridal shower is projected to be as tense as a Tenenbaum reunion and enjoy its velvety medicine.
A fantastic combination of grain whisky and premium malts from the Yamazaki and Hakushu distilleries, Hibiki 17 is an award winning whisky from Suntory. This whisky is a silently beautiful blend, rich yet delicate, with a sweetness that finishes with long notes of oak. Well balanced yet complex.
And the bottle that finds second life as a decanter in many home bars, is back to wow us with its 24 faces, each reflecting a season of the old Japanese Lunar calendar!
You've pretty much read the entire canon, and you stock your bar like your bookshelves. Johnnie Walker Black Label is as iconic as a leather-bound volume of Hemingway — a benchmark of greatness. It's the whisky the Scotch & Soda was invented to show off: unmistakably smooth, deep, and complex character, like the most interesting literature. Sip it while cozying up to the next volume you simply can't put down or share with your entire book/supper club any time they're over. The instantly recognizable square bottle makes for a sophisticated and stylish gift, too!
Having a million dollars isn't cool. You know what's cool? A billion dollars. High rollers everywhere know this is the real deal, true blue Scotch for times that call for celebrating: startup wins, exits, IPOs, red carpets, and just generally being an everyday baller. A self-made man himself, Johnnie Walker took his $417 inheritance when his father died in 1820 and turned it into the High Street store that became the pinnacle of whisky blending innovation. Blue Label is the top shelf blend personally created by master distiller James Beveridge to celebrate the 19th century style of whiskies produced by Johnnie and his son Alexander Walker that originally made the House of Walker famous around the world. Smooth, gold medal winning, subtly sweet and an absolute game-changer in your whisky drinking experience. Plus, you know, for luck: something new, something old, something borrowed, something BLUE.
Down to earth, mellow, and genuine, your besties deserve a special small-batch Bourbon as unique as they are as a sidekick. Reflecting the spirit of the Bluegrass State, Michter's US*1 Kentucky Straight Bourbon made from a carefully selected mashbill that features the highest quality American corn, aged to the peak of perfection (often in excess of 8 years), and composed of no more than two dozen barrels, leaving no margin for "blending out" imperfection so it requires excellence from every barrel. Part of Michter's line of US*1 releases, named to honor the distillery's heritage harkening back to America’s first whiskey company, consist of some of the finest single barrel and truly small batch whiskeys available. Celebrate the wingmen and wing-women who are helping you & your partner start your own nuanced legacy by gifting this special bottle.
As soon as warm weather rolls around, you're donning Nantucket reds and critter-embroidered flip-flops and salivating for a gin & tonic — probably because you've been stealing sips from this iconic green bottle as long as most of your friends have been collecting sea glass the same color. A classic in every home bar of every WASP household across the world, nothing says summer quite like a Tanqueray & Tonic. The sophisticated spirit, brought to the masses from Holland in the 17th century by Colonial importers then masterfully distilled down to the driest of the dry, needs only some tonic water & a wedge of lime to start working its medicinal magic. The Tanqueray & Tonic was originally created to ward off malaria as well as meddlesome relatives!
The Matsui is a line of single malts whiskies produced by the Matsui Kurayoshi distillery, first founded in 1910. The distillery has access to fresh spring water from the Tottori prefecture wilderness, which serves as the base for all spirit production. The Sakura Cask is made from malted barley and aged in ex-bourbon casks. In the final months of aging the cask head is replaced with one made from sakura wood, a type of Japanese cherry that adds complex and original flavors and scents to the profile.
Hipsters, cowboys, and urban yuppies alike love this Austin-made classic vodka with a conscience. As the first legal distillery in Texas since Prohibition, Tito Beveridge (real name!) and his team have been making their gluten-free "Vodka for Dog People" since 1997, when Tito opened the Southeast Austin distillery with his canine bestie DogJoe at his side and the team soon after started adopting a constantly evolving roster of "Distillery Dogs," strays who wander up to the distillery and otherwise find themselves in residence as part of the team. Tito's regularly hosts fundraisers all acrosss the country to support animal rescues by uniting vodka lovers and dog lovers in doing good while having a good time - and now so can you, at home, just by using Tito's in your next batch of Bloody Mary's, Greyhounds, Salty Dogs, or other classic vodka cocktails.
Ruggedly independent, utilitarian, simple but unique. That's how you like your bourbon and your life. Born among the hipsters in Red Hook, Brooklyn, this 10-year bourbon is a blend of whiskies produced in Indiana and Kentucky and the unique, Rosendale limestone-rich waters of New York's old Widow Jane Mine not too far away. Distilled by native New Yorkers, who call it "both urban and urbane, the signature whiskey of the world's most magnificent and maddening metropolis," this is an artisan, small-batch, everyday-drinking whiskey for folks who hate most of those overused words...but would never dream of leaving Brooklyn. Stock in your bar for craft cocktails and fingers alike, or gift to very thankful friends.