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Black Forest Gâteau Day

Established in America as National Black Forest Cake Day, as that's what this indulgent dessert is called in America. Whether Cake or Gâteau, this is

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Difford’s Guide to Cocktails Book 17th Edition

Perhaps the world's biggest cocktail book! Certainly, our biggest yet, 624 pages, 6cm (2.3inch) thick and weighing 2.25kg (5lb). Our Seventeenth Edition

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Cocktails in bars & cocktail menus

A cocktail bar should offer great tasting, well-balanced cocktails made using quality ingredients and fresh juices but as the style of bars vary enormously,

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20 best Easter cocktails

There's more to Easter indulgence than mere chocolate eggs.

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Post Melon

A Dry Daiquiri with fernet and watermelon syrup. Sounds crazy but I bet this is a cocktail you'll finish.

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Fanciulli

A Manhattan with extra bitters. While challenging for some, others will enjoy it as a delicious digestivo.

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Meditation

Sherry underpins this brilliantly balanced cocktail with delicate herbal fruity notes.

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Banana Toronto

This tasty riff on the Old Dog, New Tricks is bourbon-forward with rich overripe banana balanced by herbal bitterness.

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Old Dog, New Tricks

A vibrant menthol-like citrus freshness balances heavy, bittersweet herbal and rooty notes. The whopping slug of banana liqueur is surprisingly integrated

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San Francisco

Long, fruity, slightly sweet and vodka-laced.

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Pearl of Puebla

A herbal riff on Audrey Saunders' French Pearl with mezcal in place of gin.

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20 best Spring cocktails

Spring has sprung – well at least it has here in the northern hemisphere. It's time to rediscover the delights of floral cocktails – think elderflower

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Ketel One Garnished with Good

Paradiso, Barcelona, for years a pioneer of sustainability, partnered with Ketel One Vodka's Garnished with Good initiative to present the third edition

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20 best St Patrick's Day cocktails

St Patrick's Day not only calls for you to dress in green but to toast the Emerald Island with emerald-coloured Irish whiskey-based cocktails, stout, or

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20 best Espresso Martinis

The Espresso Martini is itself a riff, by its creator, on his earlier Vodka Espresso. Indeed, the Espresso Martini is a cocktail that lends itself to variation

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Doctor

Lighter and arguably more satisfying than the various citrus-heavy Doctor Cocktail recipes (see Doctor No. 1 to No. 4). Obviously, with two such dominant

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Old Roma

A bittersweet, delicately chocolatey Old Fashioned with liquorice-led herbal complexity.

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Tussetto No. 2

Dry, gin-laced and sherry-influenced with subtle salinity.

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