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The Tippling Point | You can take rum out of Cuba, but you can't take Cuba out of this rum
Matured in ex-bourbon barrels, Havana Club 7 dark rum has Cuban flavours of aromatic tobacco, spices, sweet tropical fruits, and vanilla that appeal to both the youth and the affluent.
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The Tippling Point | Who is a moonraker and how did they get here?
True love, as Shakespeare said, and dream runs with contraband alcohol don't run smoothly, without impediments.
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The Tippling Point | Raise a glass to nature this World Environment Day
Air Company, which makes Air Vodka with carbon dioxide and water, claims that each bottle removes a pound of the greenhouse gas from our surroundings.
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The Tippling Point | On World Whisky Day, a warm intro to 4 phenomenal Indian whiskys
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The Tippling Point | Kahlua, made with locally sourced Arabica coffee, vanilla and rum
The name Kahlua is an Arabic slang word for 'coffee.' The name is also firmly rooted in Mexican culture. In local dialect, it meant 'House of the Veracruz.'
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The Tippling Point | 130 ingredients, and just two people in the world know the recipe
What does Chartreuse taste like? Slightly sweet. With a surge of herbals finetuning your tastebuds from the background. Sip it solo, or with ice, or in cocktails.
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The Tippling Point | The most expensive vodka in the world
The company says that the water used in The Billionaire runs over crushed diamonds worth millions of dollars. Don't ask what flavour inert diamonds could lend the drink.
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The Tippling Point | Shrubs is coming out of cold storage. A quick history of the drink, and what to expect
Mixologists and bartenders have been on a mission to bring back shrubs, to replace artificially-flavoured, preservatives-laced fruit syrups and juices.
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The Tippling Point: The history of Sidecar
The backstory of one of the most successful US Prohibition era cocktails, and the present-day ingredients of the legendary Sidecar.
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The Tippling Point | An ocean-aged 'Irish' whiskey that is also an ode to the past
Clare Island Spirit started with one cask of Connacht single malt, left to agitate and age on the rebuilt boat Dolphin as it braved 20 storms.
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The Tippling Point | How to start at the top, and hold that vantage
One must admire that chutzpah - Sidney Frank decided to sell Grey Goose for $30 a bottle, while Absolut was selling at $15.
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The Tippling Point | What the fridge did for Foster's in Australia
Lighter, crisper, colder. Foster's beer in 1889 hit the bullseye with the new strategy that would take a punishing Australian sun head-on.
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The Tippling Point | Preferred gin of the Dutch East India Company, and Ray Charles
Today, Bols makes more than 38 flavours of liquor; most of them based on century-old recipes. It is Kyndal India that markets the product in our country.
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The Tippling Point | It's the tequila that shot to dizzying heights
With more than 250 years behind its back, Jose Cuervo is presently run by the 11th generation of the Cuervo family.
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The Tippling Point | Stories to warm the heart this Christmas
Four delicious (and historic) alcoholic drinks to try on your travels through Europe when commercial flights restart, and stories about these drinks that you can relish in the meantime.
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The Tippling Point | When gin got a bad rep, tonic water became the best medicine
How G&T became G&T, and the major brands of tonic water to look out for today.
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The Tippling Point | How do you drink Arak, 'the milk of the lions'
With 53% to 60% alcohol, Lebanese arak not only warms but sometimes burns your cockles. One part arak and two parts water is the correct proportion to mix a drink.
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The Tippling Point | The language of booze
Gonets (Russian) is the guy in the group who always ends up buying the drinks. The Portuguese gargalacar is for those who drink from the bottle. The Dutch bufferbiertje is a nifty practice to never run out in a busy bar.
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The Tippling Point | Ginniest of all gins: the origin story of Gordon's London Dry
Alexander Gordon was so finicky about the quality of his product that he never allowed his son Charles to take over the company until the latter completed a full seven-year apprenticeship.
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The Tippling Point | Forget gin, try these whiskey cocktails for Diwali
Famous whiskey cocktails from the Manhattan to Whisky Sour, their (multiple) origin stories, and easy recipes to make them at home.
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The Tippling Point | A snapshot of schnapps
How is German schnapps different from British and American schnapps, and what are the world's favourite five schnapps?
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The Tippling Point | Sebastian Gomez Camorino quit his bank job to capture a land in a bottle
FDA could only label Trakal 'a spirit distilled from apples and pears'. It is in every sense a first warrior in a battlefield yet to be marked and defined.
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The Tippling Point | The Absolut history of Swedish vodka
Absolut Vodka launched in America in 1979, and got a shot in the arm when Andy Warhol created over 50 artworks around the bottle.
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The Tippling Point | The clarity of vodka
Ciroc challenged the idea that vodka could only be made with grain and potatoes. Instead, it used grapes from the south of France without compromising on clarity.
