Cheers Features

For this issue, we asked members of the Cheers National Wine Panel to recommend some of their favorite zinfandels. As always, these selections include brief tasting notes, a rating and the wine’s retail price (which varies from store to store and market to market).

Cheers Drink Recipes

2 oz. Bluecoat American Dry gin

1 oz. St. Germain elderflower liqueur

½ oz. fresh lemon juice

Splash of Chambord

 

Shake all ingredients over ice and serve in martini glass.

Meredith Maciolek of Philadelphia Distilling created this drink.

2 oz. Espolon Reposado Tequila

1 oz.  Fresh Lime Juice

1 oz. Triple Sec

½ oz. Fresh Lemon Juice

1 oz. Simple Syrup

2 oz Strawberry Puree*

 

Combine all into mixing glass. Pack with ice and shake vigorously for 15 – 20 seconds. Strain into margarita glass with salt rim. Garnish with lime wedge.

 

*Strawberry Puree

1 pint fresh strawberries stemmed

2 oz simple syrup (add more or less depending on sweetness/tartness of strawberries)

 

Place strawberries and add simple syrup in blender. Blend ingredients until smooth puree forms.

 

This recipe was sent to us by Cantina Feliz in Fort Washington, Pennsylvania.

Cheers Breaking News

Pro Bev Source is a new part of the Pernod Ricard website to help distributors, retailers and on-premise operators find information, images and sales/promotional materials.

A new study finds that restaurants will miss out on a huge growth opportunity if they don’t offer low-cal dishes.

Venerable barman Gaz Regan has launched a plan to raise $250,000 for charity by inviting bartenders worldwide to donate all or part of their tips from one shift.

Effective July 1, 2013, a 10th change of generation will take place at glass manufacturer Riedel: Georg J. Riedel will hand over management of Riedel Crystal and its worldwide subsidiaries to his son Maximilian J. Riedel, the 11th generation family member to lead the heritage crystal house.

Cheers Product Watch

Kirk and Sweeneyis now available from 35 Maple Street, the spirits division of The Other Guys. The handcrafted, 12-year-old premium spirit is named after a wooden schooner best known for smuggling rum from the Caribbean during Prohibition. The rum is made in the Dominican Republic and aged for 12 years in American oak barrels.

Malibu, the rum and coconut liqueur, recently unveiled a new bottle design. The logo, typography and bottle design are all new, designed to celebrate Malibu’s spirit, according to the company. The bottle is more slender with higher shoulders, and a half-moon shaped “Malibu” appears over the palm tree logo.

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